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  1. zakman

    How to monitor the SMTP service?

    Hello all, I have developed a few web applications that use CDONTS to deliver email via SMTP. It appears that sometimes the SMTP service will get a backlog in messages to send, or the service will stop itself, etc. I would like to develop a webpage that would show the status of the SMTP...
  2. zakman

    Controlling size and color-depth of uploaded images

    Suppose that you have a web application that allows the user to upload pictures (jpg only) to your webserver. However, you want to limit the size of the picture to 100Kb (or less) and the image cannot be larger than 640x480 pixels. Suppose that you were able to perform this reduction, but the...
  3. zakman

    Can you intercept Windows VM_DESTROY message?

    Hello everyone, I have received a request to try to intercept the VM_DESTROY message that is issued by the Task Manager when you end a process. Well, as you might have guessed, the process happens to be my application. I merely want to record in a log that my app was terminated and then...
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    Finding a combination of records that yield a given sum.

    Suppose that you have a collection of records in a table. Each record contains a column which has a non-zero integer amount in it. The amount can be positive or negative. You are given a target amount. Your job is to retrieve all records in the table whose amount matches the target amount...
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    Registry setting for "Bypass Proxy Server"

    Does anyone know the corresponding registry key/value for &quot;Bypass Proxy Server for local addresses&quot;. I placed &quot;<local>&quot; in the ProxyOveride key, but that alone doesn't trigger IE 6 to bypass proxy server for my local machine. --Kevin --Kevin
  6. zakman

    From keyboard interrupt to keydown event....

    Hello all, We are curious about how soon or how late the keydown event fires from the time that the keyboard interrupt is generated when a user presses a key. We need a way to grab the character as soon as the interrupt is generated in order to capture the ascii value before any other...
  7. zakman

    From keyboard interrupt to keydown event...

    Hello all, We are curious about how soon or how late the keydown event fires from the time that the keyboard interrupt is generated when a user presses a key. We need a way to grab the character as soon as the interrupt is generated in order to capture the ascii value before any other...
  8. zakman

    From SQL Server to client in MS-Access via ASP

    I have an ASP that massages data to send to the client's browser by changing the ContentType and disposition of the page so that Excel will auto-open on the client's workstation to view the data as a CSV file. This works fine, however, the client has been saving the data, then opening an...
  9. zakman

    adodb.connection timeout problem

    Hello everyone, Suppose you have a program that establishes a database connection upon program startup and closed the connection when the user exits. Joe User starts the application (which opens the db connection), then goes to town for 3 hours... when he returns, the connection has apparently...
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    adodb.connection issues

    Hello everyone, Suppose that a program that will be accessing a database quite often. What are the advantages/disadvantages of: 1. Opening the connection at the beginning of the program & closing it when you exit the program as compared to 2. opening/closing the connection as needed? --Kevin
  11. zakman

    Finding out 'who has the file open'?

    Is there an API I can use to determine who has a specified file open? My task is to overwrite a file, but if a user has it open, I need to send them a message (or better yet, clear their connection). Any ideas? I have seen the 'whohasit' program, so I know this can be done, just not sure how...
  12. zakman

    How to display an image stored in Access/SQL Server on web page?

    Suppose you have an image stored in either Access or SQL Server... Has anyone had any experience with uploading & storing an image into either one of these databases? On the flip side, has anyone been able to retrieve the image from the database and display it on a web page? From what I...
  13. zakman

    Fighting the printer again...

    Funky stuff, that's about all I can say... I have a simple program that has a textbox and prints it on a selected printer with 3&quot;high x 5&quot;wide label stock. I tried using the Printer Common Dialog box to select the label printer to use, for some odd reason it always defaults to 1536...
  14. zakman

    Pausing a marquee

    Let's see, I have the following HTML for a marquee that scrolls the message up within the defined area. I had some javascript code that created this marquee, but I couldn't figure out a way to pause the message when it reached the top of the area. <marquee direction=up scrollAmount=1...
  15. zakman

    Two related dropdown lists...

    I have an ASP that contains two dropdown listboxes. The first is populated with departments, the second is to be populated with people that belong to the department that was selected in the first dropdown list. This is easy to do in VB, but for some reason, I am not sure how to implement...
  16. zakman

    To NEW or not to NEW, that is the question...

    There has been some discussion in our workplace concerning the advantages/disadvantages of creating objects. We were analyzing these different methods, and there may be other ways also. What is your opinion on these, which is considered to be the 'best' method? 1. dim adoThing as New...
  17. zakman

    Changing default font for controls

    Is there a way to change the default font from &quot;MS Sans Serif&quot; to something else when creating controls for a form? I don't mean changing the Font property after the control has been created. Thanks!
  18. zakman

    What does N'text' really mean?

    I have seen a few examples that use N'....' and I have not been able to find a description of this in Books Online. Some people say its for encryption, others say it is used for unicode translation, or is it something else? Any ideas? Thanks!
  19. zakman

    Placing Fields without a DB connection?

    Is there any way to place field objects on a report without having a database connection beforehand? I have one report that I wish to use with multiple recordsets that are generated within Visual Basic. I do not wish to assign the database connection within CR, but rather wait until I'm...
  20. zakman

    Invalid attribute/option upon new Server Registration

    I have Win2000, with SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager connecting to SQL 2000. For some odd reason Enterprise Manager quit recognizing the server that I was working with. I removed the server from the group. Now when I try to issue &quot;New SQL Server Registration&quot;, I get the following error...

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