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When the user has clicked OK but you would liek to stop the closing because there is invalid data entered. The straightforward solution is to override OnApply and check for a flag set by OnOK. Depending on its value return TRUE or FALSE.

This is a big problem in SQL server. So I need to generate a creation script that should also fill the tables with data. For the populate commands I couldn’t find any program so I’ve written one quickly. Now, the problem was the image fields, although SQL server has support for binary constants (using 0x), the script lines are limited to 64k (in SQL Query Analyzer). Now this can be avoided theoretically by adding a part of the data and then constantly updating the data with + (so concatenating the existing contents with new data) until the whole data is added.
Unfortunately this doesn’t work – I have to cast “image” to varbinary, and varbinary in the script is limited to 8000 bytes. So if anyone knows a method how to do it – please advise.

Here’s a link to one of Joel Spolsky’s latest articles.

AGEIA build a device that accelerates physics computations, getting them off the CPU. An absolutely cool idea, I hope a standard will appear quickly (maybe in DirectX? what about DirectPhysics?) and also a software implementation (based on Havok for example), so that it will gain mass acceptance.

Here is the quickest way to disable that annoying dialog displayed in OLE client applications :

	// disable the "server busy" dialog
	AfxOleGetMessageFilter()->EnableBusyDialog(FALSE);
	AfxOleGetMessageFilter()->EnableNotRespondingDialog(FALSE);