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XP Link Label (VB 2005)


A LinkLabel that mimics the ones in the task pane of windows explorer.


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Developing Windows Services using Visual Studio .NET Explained - Part 2


Article explaining the step by step creation and installation of a simple windows service


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Framerate Counter


A minimalist framerate counter.


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Files Selection Dialog Box /TREE/


TREE VIEW DIALOG BOX


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Building Reusable Components in .NET


This article explains how to build reusble components in .NET so that they can be used in container applications like Visual Studio .NET for RAD.


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ToolStripPanel UIAdapter


Adding ToolStripPanel support to the Composite UI Application Block


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Dirty Button


A button control that keeps track of the form’s dirty state


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Form Print Control


An extender control to make printing a form quick, easy and flexible


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CSV to Excel XML Spreadsheet with VB.net


Simple program to create Excel XML spreadsheets from CSV files. Utility with source.


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VB.NET User Control: LinkTextbox


A textbox that acts like a LinkLabel.


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A Complete Read Only ComboBox


A ComboBox with a read-only property that allows text copy and drop-down viewing


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An utility to measure a screenarea in pixels.


If you want to measure something on the screen, here is an utility.


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A look at using IE in visual studio.net 2003 with Visual Basic.NET


Internet Explorer Clone in VB.NET


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Math Maze


A maze with invisible walls for you to solve!


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Find And Replace Method For RichTextBox


An artcal about richtextbox control


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XmlSS.NET Spreadsheet Component


An Excel style spreadsheet component written in VB.NET


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Exposing COM interfaces of a .NET class library for Late Binding


An article on how to expose COM interfaces for .NET components to be used by clients using Late Binding


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Line Numbering of RichTextBox in .NET 2.0


Line numbering of a RichTextBox control using PictureBox control painting


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NumericUpDown with unit measure


How to create NumericUpDown control with unit measure. Support Vista Styles!


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Automatic Online Update Toolkit


Update toolset with update client, creator and server-script


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Reading and writing MP3 ID3v1 tags


A simple class for mainpulating ID3v1 tags of MP3 files.


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DataGridView with Detail Edit Form - VS 2005


How to create a DataGridView with an associated Detail Edit Form using a strongly typed dataset data layer.


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Manage Data in a WinForms Application (without the Database)


This article provides an approach to building an application that may be used to collect, store, and retrieve data without relying upon a database to get there.


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How to create a fading form.


This article will walk you through the steps required to create a form that fades in upon activation and fades out upon deactivation.


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Stopwatch - a High-Resolution code timer class


A high-resolution code timer for VB.NET using Kernel32 functions


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Simple Singleton Forms


Simple way to work with singleton forms


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Handy ASP.NET Email Control


An email feedback control written in VB.NET


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FastPixel - A much faster alternative to Bitmap.SetPixel


Ever wanted something faster than SetPixel? Well you\'ve found it.


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Object Oriented Programming In VB.NET


A must read for anyone who is interested in VB.NET. This article uncovers some basic Object Oriented Programming features of Visual Basic .NET. The whole article is divided into 10 lessons. The source code for these lessons is provided with the article.


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Building a UDP Client/Server application in VB.NET


This article describes a possible way to manage your UDP connections, along with some protocol suggestions and a working sample of UDP client/server application


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MSDN style help for VB.NET projects using VBCommenter from Gotdotnet


Creating Help files for VB.NET


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A FreeCell game using Cards.dll


Instructions for using Cards dynamic Link library. FreeCell game included.


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FlagColumn Outlook Style


Creating a DataGridViewFlagColumn in Outlook Style


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Accessing Remote Exchange Server To read/delete mails using WEBDAV


Accessing Remote Exchange Server To read/delete mails using WEBDAV


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Skinning vertical scrollBar


An article on how to skin a scrollbar in a textbox or listbox with VB.NET


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Impersonation in an asynchronous threaded webpart


Impersonating a user while running asynchronous data retrieval in a webpart


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Using Reflection to Bind Object Data to Data Sources


This article describes classes that can be used to update data sources with object data via reflection.


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Retrieve the Winamp song title with .NET


An article on Winamp and Windows API


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Image Viewer User Control with Preview Capability


This article discusses the construction of an image viewer user control that may be used to display images from a directory containing a collection of image files.


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Fast Algorithm for Building the Hasse Diagram of a Galois Lattice


Artificial intelligence


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Sudoku Algorithm: Generates a valid Sudoku in 0.0452 seconds


An article about the simple, yet often annoying to achieve, backtracking algorithm, the fastest method to generate a Sudoku.


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A tab control similar to IE7's.


A (fairly) simple tab control with closeable tabs.


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Retrieving date and time from remote server using NetRemoteTOD in VB.NET


This article will show how to retrieve the date and time from a remote server using the NetRemoteTOD function


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VB.NET 2003 User Registration Form (2.1)


A simple registration form that includes support for trial periods and key generation. Now updated to version 2.1!


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Searching, Sorting, and Multitasking Comparisons


Visually displays various searching and sorting techniques using different multitasking techniques.


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Save and Restore User Preferences


Persist virtually any information (including user defined structures, enums, object, etc.), per user.


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Searching a huge Excel sheet in a very faster way using VB.NET


This article describes a method to search huge excel sheet using VLOOKUP and to how to change the font and color of data in cells.It also tells how to release office objects from memory.


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Custom draw datagridviewcolumnheader (like excel 2007)


Overriding the cellpaint event of the datagridview to give it a gradient background


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.NET class to create and maintain vCard information


.NET class to create and maintain vCard information


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VB.net to mySQL Database Connection


Connecting from VB.net to mySQL Database Connection


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Using .NET to create a Windows XP 'Fading-pages' style Wizard


Windows XP\'s \'Out-Of-Box-Experience\' during its setup and activation, brought us a cool new style of Wizard with pages that fade, and a clean blue interface.


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USPS OneCode Barcodes


USPS One Code - Intelligent Mail Barcode (4-State Customer Barcode) - implementation with VB 2008


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Another Sudoku Solver and Generator


A program to help you to solve Sudoku problems or check if a Sudoku problem has only one solution.


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Tracker - A Windows Form graph control


A Windows Form control similar to the Task Manager memory graph in Windows 2000


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Reading from Parallel Port using Inpout32.dll


Using the Signal Port to read in data instead of Data Port


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Lotus Notes COM Class Wrapper for .Net


This is just a VB.Net Class Wrapper for the Lotus Notes Interfaces


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Synchroniq CodeBase v1.0 (SQLServer database backend version)


Code storage tool for any language but developed using Visual Basic .NET 2005. Includes syntax coloring for VB code and can load via the tools menu external option in Visual Studio 2005.


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Weather Forecast with Yahoo! Weather RSS Feed


A class based on the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed


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Manage Your iTunes Library With Simple Clicks (Missing Menus in iTunes)! Make use of a reusable Progress Window that has a cance


This project, along with the suggested form of use will let you organize huge your iTunes libraries and make them ready for iPod Sync, making use of a reusable Progress Window that has a cancel button.


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VB 6.0 to VB.NET Migration Command Line Arguments Issue


Command line arguments issue when we migrate a VB 6.0 application to VB.NET using the VB.NET upgrade wizard


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A Small GDI+ Sprite animation library


Animate and control sprites using GDI+


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VB.NET Code Package: Email And Web LinkLabels


Code for email and web LinkLabels including a test to see if the web link is valid.


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Analog Clock Control


The Analog Clock control is a control that has almost all functionality that clock control can have and it is fully modifiable.


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Creating a Custom Settings Provider


Demonstration of how to write custom settings providers


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Panel with blend and bordercolors


Panel with blend and bordercolors


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.NET system wide hotkey component


A component to respond to a hotkey combination, system-wide.


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StringEnum That Works Like System.Enum


A base class for closely simulating enum behavior with underlying type of string.


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PKCS Standards and .NET Framework


The article describes what is standardized in the PKCS (Public Key Cryptographic Standards) standards and their implementation in .NET 1.1 Framework.


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A Never-ending ProgressBar


A progress bar for when you don\'t know how long a process will take.


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Provider-Independent code simplified in ADO.NET 2.0


This article will attempt to explain and demonstrate how Microsoft has simplified the approach to writing provider-independent code. Switching between Oracle, SQL, or any Oledb or Odbc data source is now as easy as changing a configuration setting.


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Open Table Access to SAP R/3 with .NET


Retrieve R/3 Table Contents or ABAP functionality


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Step by Step: Event handling in VB.NET


Step by step guide to implement event handling in VB.NET.


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.NET Deque


A .NET implementation of a Deque object.


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XML Document Splitter Class


An article demonstration using the XMLTextReader class to split large XML files.


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Pan / scroll an Image in VB.NET


Ever wanted to allow the user to move an image with the mouse? This is one way to do it.


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World's easiest Trace function


Add tracing capability to your app with one easy function


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Saving and Retrieving Application Control Settings as a *.confg file


This example will illustrate how the value of a control can be saved to a Config ( *.confg) file and then be retrieved.


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Planning the form layout in VB.NET


This article shows you how to design fairly complicated forms, which can resize, using anchors, docks and panels with a dash of code.


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VB.NET TreeListView


A Treeview/Listview hybrid, inheriting from Control, all custom drawn...


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Accessing AS400 Business Logic From .NET Applications


This article describes how to call a COBOL program residing on an AS400 machine from a .NET application.


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WebResourceProvider VB.NET style


Ravi Bhavnani\'s WebResourceProvider ported to the .NET Framework


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Status List - Vista Style


A progress list for displaying the status of various tasks


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Text 2Text Steganography - Part 2


Using fake text for encrypted text transmission


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Hue Saturation Lightness Filter


VB.NET class implementing image Hue/Saturation/Lightning adjustment.


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Subclassing in .NET - The pure .NET way


Capturing the Windows Messages for Windows Forms Controls


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Advanced FileSystemWatcher


This is an advanced manipulation of the filesystemwatcher object


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Global Windows Hooks


A single component that contains various windows hooks.


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Custom Configuration Sections in .NET 2.0


Creating a custom configuration section in .NET 2.0.


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Get colors in your VB.NET console application


Use Windows APIs to write a console tool module, able to change your console background and foreground colors.


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Single Instance App with Command-Line Parameters


Demonstrates a single-instance application which can pass command-line parameters to a previous instance.


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Dynamic formula calculator/evaluator in VB.NET


This class will help you to calculate/evaluate formula based on a string which could be changed run-time.


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Is it really Numeric?


A bad trap in the IsNumeric() function.


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Using a Web Service in VB.NET


Article shows creation of a webservice using VB.Net and Google


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Install a Windows service the way YOU want to!


Shows how to change settings for a windows service during installation.


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Owner Drawn Resizable Control


Creating a custom control that you can resize at runtime from all four corners.


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The Dark Shadow of Overrides


This article hopefully will assist you in minimizing your learning curve


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How to create a reusable custom Project Template for VS.Net 2005


This article describes the basic procedures for creating a Project Template in VS.Net, that can be reused as a custom template for other projects.


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Extracting and displaying icons with VB.NET


Uses pure VB.NET code to extract and display icons as bitmap objects.


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VB 2005: Some Cool New Features


A look at some cool new VB 2005/.NET 2.0 features


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VB.NET User Controls: Extended and Date Textboxes


Two textbox user controls for controlling textbox behavior and for providing a calendar for date selection.


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A Beginner's Guide to Delegates


An article on delegates in .NET.


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Asynchronous processing of functions and webservice calls.


An article on implementing the Whidbey (.NET 2.0) BackgroundWorker component in VB.NET 1.1, and extending it to support multiple arguments.


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Time Zone Class


The TimeZoneInfo class provides properties and methods for any time zone on the system.


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Magic Graphics


A library that lets you easily manipulate your drawings


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Capture Entire Web Page


Capture an entire web page and save it as an image.


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Simple class for easily minimizing to tray and adding context menu with ONE line of code


This class allows the user to implement minimizing to tray in one line of code.


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Visual Studio 2005 Auto-versioning Addin


An add-in that handles incrementing assembly and file version numbers under certain conditions.


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TFS Event Handler prototype Configuration Demystified


There are a number of config options for the TFS Event Handler Prototype. I will describe all of them in depth here. The first step is to set the Windows Communication Foundation service options, which really only requires you to change one value.


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Creating your own event handler for TFS Event Handler Service


Creating an event handler with the Team Foundation Server Event Handlers is very easy. You will need to inherit from the AEventHandler class which is part of RDdotNet.TeamFoundation.dll located in the install directory (I will make an SDK later).


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Using CopyMemory in .NET


Demonstrates the use of CopyMemory in .NET to initialize classes


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Creating Custom Controls Part 2: Casino Royale


Learn to create your own casino-themed controls from scratch.


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Visual SourceSafe Journal Monitor Service


VMS is a windows service developed in .Net that monitors a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database. Customized alerts may be sent based on the defined filters.


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RegEx feed parser for RSS, Atom, OPML ...


Is it possible to find an easy way for parsing feeds without the format and versioning traps of XML schemas? The idea becomes reality thanks to regular expression...


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Winsock Revamped


A fairly simple to use Winsock component, allowing simple networked applications. Built modeling the VB6 component of the same name, with enhancements.


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VB.NET Class Library: ListBox Extension


A class that extends the ListBox control by adding item tags, providing a simple way to move items up and down, and adding multiple sorting options.


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.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information


.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information


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Selective Grayscale Filter


Convert image to grayscale except predefined color.


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Using Serialization to Persist TreeView Control (VB.NET)


Utilising serialization to persist TreeView control hierarchy.


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Gantt Chart


Adds an easy to use Gantt Chart to your application


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OwnerDrawn ComboBox with Icons, Divider, and a generic data store


Customize the appearance and behavior of a ComboBox without using Windows messaging.


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Mapping with a GPS and VB.NET


An article on mapping with a GPS in VB.NET


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Making TripleDES Simple in Visual Basic .NET


This is a simple wrapper class that provides an easy interface for encrypting and decrypting byte arrays and strings.


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QVFS - A FAT32 based virtual file system powered by VB.NET 2005


A virtual file system created using VB.NET, a easy way to store multiple folders and files in two real physical files.


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Use the .NET framework to shorten a path string with an ellipsis


Compact a path or any string using built in .NET framework API


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Dynamic Objects, Factories, and Runtime Machines to Boost Performance


An examination of dynamic object instantiation and runtime machines to boost performance.


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SQL Server 2005 Circular Progress Bar


Shows a spinning progress bar, identical to the SQL Server 2005 busy indicator, without requiring any code.


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Editing Multiple Types of Objects with Collection Editor and Serializing Objects


Explains use of Custom Collection Editors to create objects for a component during design time.


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Automate code-writing in VB.NET control's development


Utility for automating code writing for VB.NET control\'s developers


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Introduction to TreeView Drag and Drop (VB.NET)


Provide drag and drop functionalitly to TreeView controls.


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CNC Graphical Backplotter


Article and source code for creating a CNC graphical backplotter


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Single Instance Application in VB.NET


An article attempting to demonstrate how to get an application to behave as a Single Instance in .NET.


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Programatically Creating MSMQ Triggers


An article on creating MSMQ triggers dynamically at runtime and firing it to take a custom action


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VB’s Statically Typed Wrapper for Dynamic Code


Combining dynamic and static typing in VB.NET


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A Math Expression Evaluator


Math Expression Evaluator


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Embedding Icons In Your VB.NET Application


How to embed and use icons in your application, so you don\'t have to keep them as separate files.


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Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista style


Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style.


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Winsock.NET


A VB 6 Winsock clone for VB.NET.


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Add Custom Properties to a PropertyGrid


Extend a PropertyGrid with an Item collection; easy customization of properties with custom editor, custom converter and databinding.


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A Visual Studio 2005-like Interface


Apply a theme that resembles Visual Studio 2005 to the DockPanel Suite, using an Extender class.


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Compiling .NET code on-the-fly


Compile .NET code programmatically, in memory, then use the resulting assembly to instantiate an object of a class, access its properties and methods, and call a static function.


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Data Classification Using VB.NET and Genetic Algorithm


A simple example of how to classify data using genetic algorithm and VB.Net


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I/O Ports Programming (Parallel port) Reading / Writing + Surveillance System using VB.NET


Input Output Port Accessing and Surveillance System using VB.NET and Introduction to Parallel Ports.


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Refactoring - elixir of youth for legacy VB code


Standard refactoring techniques coupled with automated refactoring tool provide excellent platform for legacy VB code upgrade. Legacy VB code suffers poor structure and bloated code due to lack of inheritance and other OO capabilities.


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Working with Windows Registry using VB.NET


This article talks about working with Windows registry using VB.NET.


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A Math Expression Evaluator


Math Expression Evaluator


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Using PropertyGrid Part-I


Explains about PropertyGrid and how to use, with detailed examples


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Reading ID3 tags from a WMA file (MP3 as well)


A pair of classes to read the ID3 tags from either a WMA or MP3 file.


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INIFile Class


A class to manipulate INI files, for .NET 2.0.


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Convert any URL to a MHTML archive using native .NET code


A native .NET class for saving URLs: text-only, HTML page, HTML archive, or HTML complete.


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Mastermind : An evolutionary computing framework demo


Demontration on how to use the evolutionary computing framework


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Creating and populating MS Access files from other databases, using DTS


An article on creating and populating an automated MS Access file from other databases.


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An Approach to Viewing the Structure of a Database Using VB 2005


This article describes an easy approach to examining all of the tables, views, and columns in a database.


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Tiny StopWatch Application


A tiny app for timing things to 1/2 a second or so. My entry for the smallest useful app contest.


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Application Auto Update in VB.NET


An article on updating Windows application through the web.


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VB.NET Solution for working with random files : Create, List, Update, and Delete


How to prepare an application for working with random files using VB.NET


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Data Accessor Class for VB.NET and ASP.NET


Wrap up Routine Data Accessing Code into a class


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Caching Data in WinForms DataGridView in NET 2.0


An article on how to show large amounts of records using DataGridView\'s virtual mode in paging.


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Exposing COM interfaces of a .NET class library for Late Binding


An article on how to expose COM interfaces for .NET components to be used by clients using Late Binding


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Using .NET to create a Windows XP 'Fading-pages' style Wizard


Windows XP\'s \'Out-Of-Box-Experience\' during its setup and activation, brought us a cool new style of Wizard with pages that fade, and a clean blue interface.


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Single Instance Application in VB.NET


An article attempting to demonstrate how to get an application to behave as a Single Instance in .NET.


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Using Windows Services to monitor folders and unzip files - VB.NET


How to use VB.NET to build a Windows Service that monitor folders looking for files in ZIP format (and unzip them).


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IniFile Class using VB.NET


A .NET control to assist in the creation and manipualtion of *.ini files


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Article 2 - Display data using DataSet and DataGrid controls through Whidbey (VB.NET)


This article explains how we can display data using DataSet and DataGrid control after the database is created.


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An SQL execution engine for DataSets


Describes a crude method of executing an SQL statement against an in-memory DataSet and returning a new DataSet containing the result table(s).


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Extending TableAdapters for Dynamic SQL


This article discusses ADO.NET TableAdapters – especially how to extend TableAdapter functionality using Visual Basic .NET


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Capture Activities on Screen in a Movie


An article on how to capture activities on screen as a movie file using Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.


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Delete and Recreate iTunes Playlists Based on Artist/Album Names


Create iTunes playlists.


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iTunes Control Using VB.NET


Exploring the iTunes interface using VB.


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