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Articles by veen_rp (Articles: 2, Tip/Tricks: 9)
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Multimedia
GDI
2D Polyline Vertex Smoothing
17 Apr 2016 Updated:
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Smooth a 2D polyline through interpolation (Catmull-Rom) or approximation (Chaikin)
Programming Languages
Visual Basic
An Almost Extension Property
24 Mar 2016 Updated:
27 Mar 2016
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How to fake an Extension Property...
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Use VBA to Make a Picture Transparent in Microsoft Office [Tip/Trick]
7 Nov 2015 Updated:
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Why can't you set transparency to a picture in an MSOffice application? Well, you can use a clumsy work-around to create a shape and paste your picture from the clipboard. Here's the code to automate it from VBA.
Desktop Programming
Win32
Avoid Out-of-memory Troubles with Very Large Lists(Of T) [Tip/Trick]
14 Jan 2016 Updated:
15 Jan 2016
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Big lists (>1,000,000 items) can cause out-of-memory errors raised by .NET. Manage them by a List of List(Of T)
General Programming
Computational Geometry
A VB.NET Implementation of the Douglas-Peucker Algorithm without Recursion [Tip/Trick]
18 Apr 2016 Updated:
21 May 2016
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An add-on tip to articles already posted on Code Project
Productivity Apps and Services
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Launching a VB.NET Class Library from an MS-Office Excel Ribbon [Tip/Trick]
9 Nov 2015 Updated:
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A simple, step by step tutorial to set up an MS-Office Excel Ribbon, launch your own .NET applications from Excel and interact with the spreadsheet values.
Programming Languages
Visual Basic
Auto Clearing Label by Extension [Tip/Trick]
14 Apr 2016 Updated:
14 Apr 2016
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Converting Geographic Coordinates [Tip/Trick]
15 Jan 2016 Updated:
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Geographic coordinates from decimal degree to degrees, minutes & seconds. And vice versa.
Coordinate Transformation Using Proj4 in .NET [Tip/Trick]
17 Jan 2016 Updated:
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Use and benchmark of coordinate transformation using the C++ proj4 library in VB.NET and C#
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Pure HTML5/CSS3/JS Panel and Splitcontainer in .NET Style; JQuery Not Needed [Tip/Trick]
12 Nov 2016 Updated:
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Some templates for HTML5, CSS3 and pure JS to create .NET style panels and splitcontainers, using CSS classes for docking. Pure HTML/CSS/JS solution, JQuery not needed.
Pure HTML5/CSS3/JS Modal Dialog MsgBox in .NET Style [Tip/Trick]
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A small JavaScript module to create a modal dialog box or user input box in the familiar .NET style
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