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Articles by Alastair Dallas (5 articles found)
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XP Button Style in VB.NET
Last Updated: 21 Aug 2003 Page Views: 186,518 Rating: 3.88/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.88
Bookmark Count: 40
One approach to acheiving XP-style gradient buttons in VB.NET
C#
How To
Detecting XP Themes
Last Updated: 18 Mar 2004 Page Views: 51,239 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 2.72
Bookmark Count: 20
How To Detect Theme Settings in Windows XP
VB.NET
Applications
Tiny StopWatch Application
Last Updated: 30 Jan 2004 Page Views: 106,642 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 6.65
Bookmark Count: 42
A tiny app for timing things to 1/2 a second or so. My entry for the smallest useful app contest.
General
Stopwatch - a High-Resolution code timer class
Last Updated: 27 Nov 2002 Page Views: 101,372 Rating: 3.76/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 4.89
Bookmark Count: 31
A high-resolution code timer for VB.NET using Kernel32 functions
HowTo
Daytime, Internet Time Service Class
Last Updated: 27 Jan 2004 Page Views: 63,514 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.95
Bookmark Count: 30
Methods for updating the system time based on an Internet reference.
Alastair Dallas
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Alastair Dallas is a programmer, systems architect, and information designer with over 20 years experience at companies including Ashton-Tate, Lotus, Netscape, Documentum, and a wide variety of startups. Languages include C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and VB (in alphabetical order) as well as DHTML, XML, and related technologies. He has written 3 books, 2 on computer topics, and is President of Infospect Press.
Occupation:
Web Developer
Location:
United States
Last Updated 21 Nov 2009
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