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Archive: 01-2008

• How do I... Make a glass button for a Web page using Adobe Illustrator?

  Adobe Illustrator can be used to create buttons and other images for use on Web pages just like Photoshop. The finished product is very similar but how you get there is slightly different. Steven...

  Posted by Steven Warren | January 28, 2008, 1:59 PM PST

• How do I... Reject alpha characters in a SQL Server character column?

  Enforcing your data’s integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data from making its way into...

  Posted by Susan Harkins | January 25, 2008, 8:10 AM PST

• How do I... Use threading to increase performance in C#? (Part 1)

  Bad threading logic can actually slow down an application, or worse, cause an application to have inconsistent exceptions. There really isn’t much to be worried about though if you plan...

  Posted by Zach Smith | January 24, 2008, 11:05 AM PST

• How do I... Display multiple values in an Access value list control?

  You can populate a list control with an explicit list of values and generally, that list consists of one column, although you can display more. Creating a multi-column value list control is the...

  Posted by Susan Harkins | January 23, 2008, 12:12 PM PST

• How do I... Build and configure an external hard drive enclosure?

  Do you have an old hard drive, which still works, lying around and gathering dust that you’d like to put to good use? If you answered yes, then chances are good that you’ve thought about using...

  Posted by Greg Shultz | January 18, 2008, 1:32 PM PST

• How do I... Create desktop icons in KDE and GNOME?

  Most Linux installs include thousands of applications, but not all those applications get an icon on either the KDE or GNOME desktop. If you want to launch one of those applications from the...

  Posted by Jack Wallen | January 17, 2008, 1:28 PM PST

• How do I... Pass data over a network using disconnected recordsets?

  Dragging only the data you actually need and only when you need it is the key to working efficiently across a network, but there’s more. In Microsoft Access, you can also retrieve data using...

  Posted by Susan Harkins | January 17, 2008, 8:37 AM PST

• How do I... Use Zoomify to improve my digital images in Photoshop CS3?

  Photoshop CS3 has a way to put your photo online and it will still download quickly with all of its high-resolution glory intact. It’s a dirty little secret called the Zoomify function. The...

  Posted by John Lee | January 15, 2008, 7:15 AM PST

• How do I... Modify Word documents using C#?

  Accessing Word components from C# isn’t quite as straight-forward as many other features of C# and the .NET Framework. With that said — it’s not rocket science either. You simply...

  Posted by Zach Smith | January 9, 2008, 1:29 PM PST

• How do I... Remote desktop to a Windows XP PC from Windows Vista?

  Microsoft Windows Vista adds several layers of system security above and beyond what was used in Windows XP. In general, that is a good thing. However, those added layers of security sometimes...

  Posted by Mark Kaelin | January 8, 2008, 11:15 AM PST