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Best VB.NET article of April 2008

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Current Entries

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23 Apr 2008Danijel Arsenovski
Combining dynamic and static typing in VB.NET
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2 Apr 2008Jason Witty
Combine scrollbar events, JSON RPC calls, and LINQ to create a fluid, fast, and "no click" paginated DataGrid.
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27 Apr 2008BlaiseBraye
This library provide DataGridView printing features on the FrameWork .NET 3.5. (C# VB F#)
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1 May 2008Sabarinathan A
Graphical Interface for FFMPEG all in one Video & Audio Converter
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14 Jun 2008Copper
ColorBar is a gradient colored progress bar control written using VB.NET.
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25 Apr 2008PopeDarren
Automatically resize a TabContainer or TabPanel.
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16 Apr 2008Tejas Patel
An article on creating MSMQ triggers dynamically at runtime and firing it to take a custom action
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5 May 2008Guillaume Hanique
How to extend Visual Studio so it can generate code for any data type.
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9 Apr 2008Armin Kabir
This article will show you how to dynamically add javascript or stylesheet to the header of asp.net page.
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12 Jun 2008Ferminus Muthu
Custom skins for VB.NET forms, Skinning VB.NET forms, WinForm Skins
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16 Apr 2008Edward Moemeka
A continuation of using XAML for configuring applications
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9 Apr 2008Armin Kabir
This article describe how to sort generic collections
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29 Apr 2008Sigurd Johansen
How to insert an image on a form in runtime mode, dragging it to the right position and by using a database retrieve the position and shape when starting the application up again
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27 Feb 2009Artem Smirnov
The basics of Inka, an open source printing component
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17 Apr 2008Mr.PoorEnglish
Converting complex Object-structures to string and reverse. Storing the result in an application-setting improves configurations flexibility substantially
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16 Apr 2008Edward Moemeka
Describes why and how to use XAML as an alternative to plain XML for configuration file specification
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19 Apr 2008Victor Pirkle
Implementation of Listener and Client objects that communicate through a Web proxy
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26 Apr 2008tricos
Windows Forms Validation w/ ErrorProvider Control Quickly (Validate Whole Form at Once)
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10 Apr 2008Michael L Perry
An open source library of Windows Forms controls that update themselves automatically.
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26 Jun 2010chanderp, Yash Bharadwaj
In some application we need to fullscreen the App .Here is simple class that can fullscreen any App. Just create a variable of this class type and call the function using the class variable.
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5 Apr 2008Atanu Maity
Protect any file by encryption and decryption with password. It encrypts the file and saves as secure XML with binary format, and stores file password as custom PK encrypter routine.
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8 Jul 2008arinhere
This piece of code will show you to convert any video file format to high quality flv and stream it on web server
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7 Apr 2008fr_marx
A webservice to send and receive SMS
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16 Mar 2010Mohd Arshad Malik
This article will guide you how to create/retrieve/delete key entries in Windows Registry.
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7 Apr 2008chanderp, Yash Bharadwaj
you want to display some text in your application and side-by-side you want to prevent the user from copying the content. . One way to implement this use label, but label do not support the formatting of the text and RTF formats.
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7 Apr 2008ahmed-itani
Very simple article to show how to add columns to a GridView at runtime.
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29 Apr 2008Sabarinathan A
Advanced Collection (like ASP.NET name/value collection) for VB6 Application settings
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29 Apr 2008dwrogers
A bootstrap loader to execute a ClickOnce application - written in C#
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13 Apr 2008stavinski
Introduction to unit testing against a database and how the supplied library can help.
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3 Apr 2008Ben Kotvis
This article explains about developing abstract functions for accessing Stored Procedures.
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16 Apr 2008Michael Rosqvist
Implementing NoWrap in an ASP.NET DataGrid.
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22 Apr 2008logicchild
How to Create an Application to Access Data
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23 Jun 2010BruceL
Crystal Reports producing odd results? Don't do what we did!
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29 Apr 2008jostros1
Pass parameters to InstallUtil so that it will use them when it installs the service into the Service Control Manager
25 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
Automatically decrypt data when retrieving it from a database.
27 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
"This project would not have been feasible without Iron Speed Designer’s built-in security model." - Terry McCormick, New World Van Lines.
25 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
The article demonstrates how easy it is to add AJAX code customizations in applications generated using Iron Speed Designer V4.0.
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19 Apr 2008screanjap
updated with a gribanchor feature, a bugfix and translated to c++/cli
27 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
"Employees testing the application have commented on just how robust and reliable the code is - it just works consistently day-after-day." - Tim Titchmarsh, Amlin Insurance.
27 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
Iron Speed Designer is designed to work directly with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET! Alan Fisher, Chairman of Iron Speed, Inc. shows you how to open a generated application in Visual Studio .NET.
25 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
The size and complexity of the legacy application ruled out a "big bang" approach to conversion. Instead of "conversion", we adopt a strategy of "migration".
25 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
Iron Speed MVP Gil Givati demonstrates how to teach Iron Speed Designer your favorite code snippets.
25 Apr 2008Iron Speed Designer
Learn how to integrate a help system into any Iron Speed Designer generated application.
25 Apr 2008Miles Gibson
The purpose of this article is to provide you with a useful tool for managing errors.
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16 Apr 2008Ben Liebert
Restores the user's previously selected tab panel when they return to a page.
25 Apr 2008Miles Gibson
The goal of using Code Templates in Iron Speed Designer is all about saving time! Integrate your favorite third-party control into your Iron Speed Designer application.

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* Bachelor of Information Management at ISAT Charleroi in Belgium.
* Master II of Information science at UMH Mons.

I spend my time in small projects which can help me or small enterprises and
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with specifications of UML or in applying usual design patterns.
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IPStudents.Info - Its all about creativity and ideas.
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Danijel Arsenovski is senior developer and consultant from Santiago, Chile. His interests include advanced OO programming techniques and refactoring. He holds Microsoft's Solution Developer Certification and is often speaker at Microsoft's technical conferences. Recently, he has been recognized as Microsoft MVP.
He is the author of book "Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic" and "Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP .NET" from Wrox.
From time to time he blogs at http://blog.refactoringin.net
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Hi I'm Edward Moemeka,
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Technical Lead Endeavour Software Technologies
India India
I am working as a Technical Lead in Bangalore. I started my development career using VB 6.0. I was interested in creating windows based applications. Later I worked on web based applications with ASP.Net. Now I am working in WCF web services for Iphone and Ipad applications.
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Software Developer ViCi Consulting
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Though I graduated as an Electro Technical Engineer, I specialized myself in writing software. At this moment I work as a consultant for many clients. I get to work with a lot of different technologies: VBA, WinForms, WebForms, ADO.NET, MSAccess, eXtreme Programming and a lot more.
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Senior software architect and developer for 18 years. Worked primarily with microsoft products, using them to integrate many 3rd party systems from numerous vendors into cohesive systems.
Software Developer Monroe Community
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Architect Improving Enterprises
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Code is math. Michael writes about techniques for using mathematics to prove the correctness of code at http://qedcode.com. He also maintains two open-source projects that let you write verifiable user interface code (Update Controls) and collaborative applications (Correspondence).
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Miles is a senior consultant and principal of Milestone Software and has been providing his clients with the right solutions for over twenty five years. He was the first to offer formal Iron Speed Designer training, and has been coaching and mentoring Iron Speed users since 2005. Miles is an Iron Speed MVP who loves to help clients finish their projects. He is an experienced data modeler who believes in strong database architecture and a best practices approach to software development.

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Senior Software Professional with 13+ years of experience in web/desktop applications development.
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Software Developer (Senior) MFA Oil
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I like puzzles, math, astronomy, books and movies and I read about 3 sci-fi books every month. I also love to laugh. I'm the guy who laughs out loud with headphones on. I know, most of you all hate that guy... but you try to watch this without laughing out loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1kq6CA_38
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India India
I have been programming for last 20 years on various platforms including .NET, Visual Basic 6, Oracle and SQL server.

I decided to write articles when I have free time hoping to share my thoughts with you.

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Have worked in web/software developement since leaving college in 2002, initially for a software house now for a private bank in the IOM, became MCAD certified in 2006 and now studying to get MCSD certified.

I'm very interested in using design patterns, good design practices & principles to create well written maintainable software
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Canada Canada
Tejas has been an ASP.NET,AJAX/C#.NET/VB.NET developer for about 10 years for windows, WCF, RESTful services, windows and web application. Currently, he is working on Distributed Applications as a team lead in his company. He has worked with languages like C,C++,Java,PHP and databases like MS SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL. He especially enjoy web development using service driven architectures. He holds a MCSD certification since July 2013.

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