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GDI+	Signal Strength Control in C# 8 Jan 2010 Updated: 8 Jan 2010 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,388 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 2,656 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A signal strength control similar to the ones on cell phones
	A Better Line Control 1 Feb 2013 Updated: 2 Feb 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 6.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,841 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WinForms line control that works how you would expect one to.
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C#	Setting Screen Brightness in C# 13 Dec 2009 Updated: 13 Dec 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 100,847 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 4,723 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Tutorial on programmatically setting the screen brightness using C#.
	.NET Remoting Events Explained 3 Mar 2010 Updated: 3 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 104,369 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 3,466 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Explains producing and consuming .NET remoting events, the drawbacks, and advantages.
	Industrial .NET - PID Controllers 29 Dec 2009 Updated: 29 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 130,566 Bookmarked: 62 Downloaded: 5,999 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing a robust PID controller in .NET.
C# 4.0	.NET Type Conversion Utility 13 Jan 2014 Updated: 14 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,183 Bookmarked: 60 Downloaded: 792 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Convert what System.Convert can't.
Visual Basic	How To: Component Licensing in .NET 28 May 2013 Updated: 29 May 2013 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 103,941 Bookmarked: 152 Downloaded: 7,362 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Developing a component licensing system in .NET.

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Windows Forms	Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps [Tip/Trick] 16 Feb 2010 Updated: 18 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,150 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you are designing in a WinForms component, which is anything that derives from Control at some point (Forms, UserControls, panels, etc), then you can use the following code:if (this.Site.DesignMode) //Do stuff[edit]The above will throw an exception if Site is not set (in...
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C#	Get Known Color from int value [Tip/Trick] 20 Nov 2009 Updated: 20 Nov 2009 Rating: 1.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,850 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I think you are confusing how the FromArgb method works. It takes a 32 bit number in the format AARRGGBB, where each element of the color is an 8 bit number of the value 0 to 255. Setting the color to zero creates a black color, but it is transparent (the alpha channel is zero). To set black with an
	Converting numbers to the word equivalent. [Tip/Trick] 19 Aug 2010 Updated: 19 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,771 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I'm sorry, but that's a horrible way to do it...Here is what I would do... public class NumberToWords { public static string ConvertToWords(int Number) { //Split the string into 3 part pieces string numStr = Number.ToString(); ...
	How to PING Server in C# [Tip/Trick] 13 Sep 2010 Updated: 13 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,661 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. using System;using System.Runtime;using System.Runtime.InteropServices;public static class InternetConnectionStatus{ [DllImport("wininet.dll")] private extern static bool InternetGetConnectedState(out int Description, int Reserved); public static bool Connected() { ...
	TIP: Descriptions for enum values [Tip/Trick] 24 Sep 2010 Updated: 24 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,090 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You could also make an extension method...public static class EnumExtensions{ public static string Description(this Enum e) { return e.GetType().GetField(e.ToString()).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false) as DescriptionAttribute[])[0].Description; ...
Visual Basic	Convert Vertical List to String Array [Tip/Trick] 24 Sep 2010 Updated: 24 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,680 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You may want to take a look at String.Join:Your code can be compressed to:Dim str as Stringstr = Chr(34) + String.Join(Chr(34) + "," + Chr(34), arr) + Chr(34)(My VB skills are a bit lacking, so the syntax may be a bit off, but you get the idea).

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Ron Beyer

	President 6D Systems LLC
	United States

I studied Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering for 2 years before switching to Management of Information Systems for a more business oriented approach. I've been developing software since the age of 14, and have waded through languages such as QBasic, TrueBasic, C, C++, Java, VB6, VB.NET, C#, etc. I've been developing professionally since 2002 in .NET.