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Best VB.NET article of July 2009

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24 Jul 2009Lou Franco
TIFF and PDF are the two most popular formats for document imaging. The primary reasons are that they both can store multiple pages in one file and both allow each page to have different sizes and compression. However, knowing the differences will help you choose between the two formats.
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16 Apr 2011rspercy65
Uses Farhad Siasar's YahooWeathertlb library with a few added functions
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22 Jul 2009DaveyM69
A complete overview and implementation of SNTP from a client perspective.
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26 Jul 2009Yasser Daheek
A very productive, easy to use tool to edit your Sql Queries against MS Access Databases
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16 Jul 2009Abhishek Sur
What is the difference between DirectCast and TryCast
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28 Jul 2009jpaulino
This article shows some tips to improve Microsoft Reports like embedded reports, showing stored images, and images from a path, using custom code and custom assemblies, exporting reports, and printing reports without the ReportViewer control.
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8 Jul 2009rspercy65
A Learning tool to help prepare your child for pre-school
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28 Jul 2009CS Rocks
This is a simple example of how to use a ProgressBar in WPF.
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7 Jul 2009CS Rocks
This article demonstrates how to manually create a COM DLL with VS 2005.
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16 Jul 2009John M Bundy
Allow users to customize your forms
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21 Jul 2009Alberto Venditti
How to implement paging and filtering on a Silverlight 2 ListBox.
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5 Jul 2009knightofbaghdad
Write Arabic in programs that don't support the Arabic language, using Unicode.
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30 Jul 2009pimb2
Create an Aero-style wizard in VB.NET
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30 Jul 2009Sams Publishing
This chapter provides you with an overview and introduction to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. The goal of this chapter is to explain why you should build web applications using ASP.NET MVC
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23 Jul 2009Corey Fournier
Demonstrates how to parse objects in a PDF and inflate FlateDecode sections.
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17 Jul 2009Hexa How
Simple way to implement country/state/city drop down list in ASP.NET (VB)
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6 Jul 2009dnair926
Gey any control's value in the type specified.
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6 Jul 2009Bruce Kempthorne 79
ChangeDisplaySettingsEx
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20 Jul 2009ghard68
Non bloated way to reload dynamically loaded controls with eventing intact

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India India
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Italy Italy
I was born in 1970.

My first computer experience dates back to early 80s, with a Sinclair ZX81.
From that time on, as many "friends" say, my IT-illness has increased year by year.

I graduated in Electronic Engineering and earned the following Microsoft certifications:
MCP, MCT, MCDBA, MCSD, MCAD, MCSD for .NET (early achiever).

I worked in IT as a developer, a teacher, a consultant, a technical writer, a technical leader.
IT knowledge applied to real life is my primary interest and focus.
Australia Australia
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Software Developer
United States United States
Graduate of University of Louisiana at Lafayette in computer science.
Software Developer DataPrint, LLC
United States United States
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United Kingdom United Kingdom
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Other
United States United States
I started with programming business programs in VB 7 years ago, I focus on RAD (Rapid Application Development) and new technologies. After 500+ tools and programs I moved on to primarily focus on VB.NET and continue to create business applications for a couple Fortune 500 companies.

I have begun posting articles on my blog and step by step tutorials to this article can be found there.
http://jmbundy.blogspot.com/
Software Developer
Portugal Portugal
Jorge Paulino
Microsoft Visual Basic MVP
Portuguese Software Developer
VB.NET, ASP.NET, VBA, SQL
http://vbtuga.blogspot.com/

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Atalasoft, Inc.
United States United States
Lou Franco is the Director of Engineering at Atalasoft, provider of the leading .NET Imaging SDK (DotImage) and the Document Viewer for SharePoint (Vizit).

http://atalasoft.com/products/dotimage
http://vizitsp.com
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Retired
United States United States
I am currently retired.
I have no degree but I have some programming experience
when I was in college(Cobol, Pascal).

My accomplishments thus far are;
Best VB.Net article for January(2009)
Best VB.Net article for July(2009)
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Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Arab Republic
The more I learn the more I see my ignorance.
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