There are a lot of quirks between different browsers, in particular though are the differences in the way each browser handles the DOM in JavaScript.

Internet Explorer, for the most part, implements MSXml 4.0 or higher. However that’s (obviously) a Microsoft technology, and the standard implementation doesn’t support XPath in the DOM.

In particular the selectNodes() and selectSingleNode() functions are of particular use when manipulating XML or the DOM. Using these functions you can parse an XPath expression and get a nodelist of elements in your DOM that match the expression.

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Formatting Numbers

Numeric formatting in JavaScript can be very tedious. From handling non-numeric characters, to multiple-currency symbols, to alternate negative display methods. The functions below should be valuable in assisting to format numbers and currencies of all types.

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In an SDI application (Single Document Interface), the main form acs as the “container” for the entire application. This means that child forms, are exactly that – children of the application. The long and short of which, means that when you minimise the main form of the application, all forms are hidden. In addition to which, when you minimise a child form of the application, it doesn’t minimise to the task bar, instead it minimises to the application desktop. This also has the side effect that only the main application form itself has a task bar button.

So, How do I change this behaviour?

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Firstly you can edit the Registry of the remote machine by hand:

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server on the remote machine, and find the key: fDenyTSConnections
If it doesn’t exist create it, then set it’s value to “0″.

Alternatively you can use the following batch file to do the job for you.
Note: You must be logged into your computer with credentials that allow you to remotely edit the Registry of the machine in question, otherwise the batch file will fail.

syntax: EnableRemoteDesktop.bat RemotePC
NB: This batch file must be run under Windows XP

Save the following to a file named EnableRemoteDesktop.bat

@echo off
setlocal
if {%1}=={} goto syntax

:loop
if {%1}=={} goto finish
set remote="\\%1\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server"
shift
reg.exe ADD %remote% /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>nul 2>&1
if NOT %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 @echo %remote% NOT found.
goto loop

:syntax
@echo Syntax: RemoteDesktop Computer1 [Computer2 .... Computern]
goto loop

:finish
endlocal

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