Best VB.NET Article of October 2014

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Getting all the ip-addresses on subnet and filtering by availability

11 Oct 2014Nosey Parker

How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses

.NET

Windows

Visual-Studio

Web Browser Hangs/Freeze Issue VB.NET

30 Oct 2014Jems_007

The tip is for those who getting application hang/freeze issue in web browser control.

Crafting on Hex String

29 Oct 2014Nosey Parker

Crafting on hex string

TcpClient.BeginConnect with Timeout

7 Oct 2014Nosey Parker

TcpClient.BeginConnect with timeout

Complete Sudoku Game for Windows using VB.NET 2013

9 Jun 2019Hung, Han

This article is a tutorial on how to code your own Sudoku game using VB.NET

Windows

VS2013

Dev

Compression With Progress in VB.Net 4.5

2 Oct 2014Jay Clark (SolvoTerra)

Compress any size file with .Net 4.5 Compression namespace

ZIP

Basic Introduction to Data Annotation in .NET Framework

6 Oct 2014Mathew Soji

Basic introduction to Data Annotation in .NET Framework

Fluent Database Access

1 Mar 2016Jörgen Andersson

Fluent database access

Protection & Decompiling Software - Start Point Info

20 Aug 2018NewPast

Software protection & Decompiling software as a new cracking method

C# / VB.NET and WinAPI: How to Access Window of Other Application

30 Jan 2015Emiliarge

Using FindWindow() and WindowFromPoint() to identify window, and SetWindowText(), MoveWindow(), SetForegroundWindow(), EnableWindow() to interact with it

How to get output parameter values from stored procedure using Entity Framework.

13 Oct 2014SRS(The Coder)

This tip gives an explanation with example on how to get output parameter value from stored procedure using Entity Framework in ASP.Net

Accessing Backed Up iPhone SMS Messages

27 Oct 2014Dominick Marciano

When iPhone SMS messages are backed up to your computer using iTunes, the messages are stored in a SQLite database. This article will show the layout of this database file and how to access all saved message information.

TFS Backward Migration from (2012SP1\SQL 2012 ENT) to (2010 SP1\SQL 2008 R2 STD)

14 Oct 2014Sushil Pandit

Process for backward migration of code from TFS 2012 to TFS 2010

WinForms .NET Time Chooser Control

14 Oct 2014Jamie Highfield

WinForms .NET Time Chooser grid control.

SMTP Client Class

27 Oct 2014Bob L.

This is a simple VB.NET class that encapsulates the sending of e-mail messages via SMTP.

.NET

Dev

Delete Blank Scanned Image File

26 Oct 2014Igor Krupitsky

This application will tell you if a scanned image file is blank

Print to Dot Matrix in VB.NET

23 Oct 2014heinrich4J

Print to DotMatrix in VB.NET

.NET

Windows

designer

Access Values of ProgressBar Created a Runtime

23 Oct 2014Tantum

Access values of ProgressBar created at runtime

.NET

Windows

ASP.NET

Guide line of integrated ShellScript with R Hybrid programming

26 Oct 2014Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

The idea of hybrids the R script and my shellscript is awesome, and hybrid the shellscript with R can extends the function of my script and I also can write two type of the programming language both in one script file. Incredible thing! Right?

Get Better Performance in Dotnetnuke Framework

2 Oct 2014Trung Nguyen Son

How to analyse and tune your dotnetnuke site to get best performance.

Printing Arabic text to POS printers supporting codepage-1001

12 Oct 2014loody

Windows OS doesn't seem to support charset-1001 for Arabic characters, the following Tip will provide an example and working VB.NET class to do the translation manually.

hardware

POS

printing

LinkLabel with Auto URL Detection

14 Oct 2014Daniel Leykauf

A LinkLabel replacement with auto URL detection

HTML

.NET

Unit Testing Serialisation

22 Oct 2014Duncan Edwards Jones

An example of a unity test that tests an object serialises

Dev

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Bob L.

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Daniel Leykauf

Business Analyst

Austria

I am working as Business Analyst and Development Specialist for an international bank since 1993.

Dominick Marciano

CEO Sci-Med Codimg

United States

I started programming around 10 years old. C/C++ was the first language I learned and then moved on to Assembly and finally VB/VB.NET which I have stuck with all these years. However, I have kept myself open to new languages and currently learning to work with Rust.

Besides computer programming, I have also learned microchip programming, starting with the Microchip PIC line and now using Raspberry Pi when it is convenient. I also have experience with HTML/ASP.NET/JavaScript/JQuery and built several websites for one of the largest environmental companies in NJ that I use to work for. These included their main website, and e-commerce site for the environmental products they sold, and a website for their training division which managed students and test grades. I wrote several large applications for them as well (e.g. a database front-end, a PDA application for data entry, and a program for analyzing data from an X-ray fluorescence machine and writing a report with recommendations based on the data).

Currently I work for a MSP that serves a good portion of the charter schools in NYC as well as a few small business and NPO's in NY, CT, and MA. Besides providing troubleshooting help, I develop applications which help streamline our work or our clients.

Duncan Edwards Jones

Software Developer

Ireland

C# / SQL Server developer
Microsoft MVP (Azure) 2017
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic) 2006, 2007

Emiliarge

Software Developer

Russian Federation

Want to contribute my CodeProject articles and tips? Write my e-mail: emiliarge@mail.ru

heinrich4J

Software Developer

South Africa

ITIL Certified. As developer my work include new system designs and maintenance. Work with VB.NET, C#, XML, ASP.NET, javascript, Qlikview, Sharepoint, and many more...

Hung, Han

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Senior software developer with over 30 years of experience.

Started programming on the Apple II platform back in the 80's. Over the years, I have programmed in various languages, including, but not limited to VB 3.0 through VB 6.0, Forth, and C.

Currently programming professionally in .Net using VB and C#.

Wrote many Windows applications, services, and dlls as well as ASP.Net web-services. Also wrote WPF applications as well as WCF services using both VB.Net and C#.

Dabbling with Flutter, PHP, and Laravel.

Igor Krupitsky

Web Developer

United States

Igor is a business intelligence consultant working in Tampa, Florida. He has a BS in Finance from University of South Carolina and Masters in Information Management System from University of South Florida. He also has following professional certifications: MCSD, MCDBA, MCAD.

Jamie Highfield

Systems Engineer Hut Six Security

United Kingdom

Applied Software Engineering student at Cardiff University and the National Software Academy. Software & Systems Engineer at Hut Six Security.

Jay Clark (SolvoTerra)

United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Jems_007

Software Developer (Senior)

India

- I am in web development now.
- I've been programming Windows and Web apps since 2011.
- I have developed PLC,Scada Application also.
- I have done machine interface with windows application.
- I have created more than 5 windows application who works like scada for pharmacy & production industries.
- I have created More than 5 websites for civil hospital, Ahmedabad.

Jörgen Andersson

Database Developer

Sweden

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

loody

Technical Lead Bahr Solutions

Egypt

Graduated from faculty of computers and information, Cairo university in 2008.
Started his professional career as a freelancer since 2007 and used Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, PHP and MySQL to build different websites for himself and his customers.
Built multiple desktop applications in VB.net/J2SE and MFC as well as Android and IOS applications.
Started a company in late 2010/early 2011 with other partners and currently works as a technical manager for that company.

Mathew Soji

Software Developer

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Technical Lead PANOMIX

China

He is good and loves VisualBasic! Senior data scientist at PANOMIX

github: https://github.com/xieguigang

NewPast

Lebanon

ASP.Net Hosting on Linux server
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There is a developer behind every piece of code!
DNA is too complex what about it!
No junk DNA; There is a functional role for noncoding DNA

Nosey Parker

Software Developer

Russian Federation

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

SRS(The Coder)

Software Developer

India

Having more than 9 years of development experience in various Microsoft Technologies like :-
ASP.Net, MVC, SQL Server, WCF, MS Commerce Server, Xamarin etc.

Also hands on experience on the client side coding with JavaScript/jQuery and framework like AngularJS. Worked with third party ASP.net controls like Telerik and DevExpress as well.

Very much interested in Microsoft technologies to explore and implement. Now started to helping coders who really need me.

My Blog

Microsoft Technology Master

Programming Communities

JS Fiddle | Stack Overflow

Awards

Microsoft MCTS Certification in ASP.Net 4.0

Sushil Pandit

Team Leader

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Tantum

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Trung Nguyen Son

Youth & Partners Law Firm

Vietnam

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

This is a Organisation

2 members

First Prize	Hung, Han - Complete Sudoku Game for Windows using VB.NET 2013
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject

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