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Recent content by JStandley
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Connecting to a MS Access DB, how to use a relative path.
Here is some code I use on my NT workstation and a low-volume test Win2000 machine. This uses mappath to convert a relative path to a fully qualified path. The mdb file is in the same directory as the html. This is not a good production choice as people could easily download your...- JStandley
- Post #4
- Forum: Microsoft: Visual InterDev
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Anybody out there interested in talking about MS multitier dev issues?
I'm a strong fan of OO and the Rational Unified Process. My biggest problem getting into thin-client multi-tier stuff has been the "stateless" server. I just came from a fat client application with a deeply involved object model where state was everything, so stateless is a challenge.<br> <br>...- JStandley
- Post #31
- Forum: DCOM / COM
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Communication with components
Look into XML support in your environment. I'm in J++ thin-client world, not sure about VB. XML is a good universal language for any component to format its return data to client layers. It's a single string, easy to marshal between languages, platforms, etc. The downside is the coding effort...- JStandley
- Post #7
- Forum: DCOM / COM
