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Dragging caption-less forms

The standard way to move a captionless form is to execute some tricky code from within the MouseDown event procedure. More advanced VB developers can reach the same result by

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MakeFileName – Create a file name out of its parts

‘ Make a complete file name by assemblying its individual parts’ if Extension isn’t omitted, it overwrites any extension held in BaseNameFunction MakeFileName(Drive As String, Path As String, BaseName As

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Prevent IE5 AutoComplete on Your Forms

One of Internet Explorer 5.0’s new features is AutoComplete. If turned on by the user (it’s off by default) it helps users fill in the frequently used fields–like username, first

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Duplicates in a Swing ComboBox

Swing’s JComboBox can be used to present a drop-down list, perhaps of status reports from a process, requiring minimal screen space until the user wishes to see the details. But

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Determine Transaction Isolation Levels

When architecting a client-server or n-tier application, you should decide on a particular locking technique and accordingly the transaction isolation level and concurrency control strategy for database transactions. This decision

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Don’t Forget That Mouse Pointer

If you turn the mouse pointer into an hourglass (and back to normal) in a routine with error handling, don’t forget to turn the mouse pointer back to normal in

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Add A:hover to Visual InterDev 6 Style Sheets

The Visual InterDev 6 Style Sheet editor is confusing about the tags that can be edited. For example, the A:hover style is missing from the list of tags. A:hover is

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Dynamic Array Allocation

Java does not offer arrays that can be extended at run time, for primitives or Objects, so it is common to use a Vector for a set of elements that

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ADO connection to an mdb database fails

Question: Summary of the problem: Connecting directly to a Microsoft Access database from a Web project developed in Interdev 6.0 fails unless I modify every .Open to use a connection

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Need a simple script

Question: I need the following simple script. Visitors should be able to enter their e-mail address in a form on my site and the address should be put in a

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ASP & ActiveX

Question: I have an ActiveX (MyKalender.ocx) and I know the ClassID of, I included it to an ASP-File -> I can see it but how can I get information about

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Ad rotator logging

Question: I have built an ASP-based banner system using the Ad Rotator component. How can I log this information into a database (prefer) and retrieve the number of impressions and

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Dynamic Includes

Question: How can I do a dynamic include, such as:However, I think I know why this doesn’t work– because includes are tossed in before it goes to the parser (asp.dll).

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Use a Selfmade ActiveX-DLL on an ASP

Question: I’ve made an ActiveX-DLL using VB6 with one public and several private functions.How can I use (and call) the public function from an Active Server Page?? Answer: Invoke your

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File Upload using VBScript

Question: I would like to ask about uploading a file using HTML. I have the code, but the problem is that I can not receive and save the file that

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Using #Include in htm pages

Question: I have a .htm file in which I have the following line of code: The htm pages are both part of my VI6 project.The file IncludeLeftPanel.htm contains only simple

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Executing an ASP page from a VB App

Question: I have an ASP file residing on a Web server. Is there any way that I can execute this file from within my VB application? This should be similar

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Highlight HTML Text With BACKGROUND-COLOR

On the printed page, people are accustomed to seeing portions that have been marked by a highlighter–you can achieve the same effect with HTML highlight text on your Web page

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Use Command Lines for MTS Operations in NT Systems

If you’re using Microsoft Transaction Server technology, opening up MTS explorer and using refresh is an overhead on the system compared to command line options. Instead, you can use “mtxstop”,

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Forms Not Showing Up in Taskbar

In VB3 you can set up an executable project to start up in the main subroutine, and it shows up in the Windows 95 taskbar: Public Sub Main() Load frmFoo

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Form-Level Variables Won’t Clear

When you use multiple forms in a project, make sure you explicitly set a form to Nothing after you unload it. If you don’t, simply unloading the form won’t necessarily

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Overloading the Subscript Operator the Right Way

It is customary to overload the subscript operator, [], in classes that hold a sequence of elements. Vector and String are examples of such classes. When you overload operator [],