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18 Mar 2004   Updated: 18 Mar 2004   Rating: 3.50/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 2.72
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How To Detect Theme Settings in Windows XP
Visual Basic
21 Aug 2003   Updated: 21 Aug 2003   Rating: 4.47/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 5.50
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One approach to acheiving XP-style gradient buttons in VB.NET
30 Jan 2004   Updated: 30 Jan 2004   Rating: 4.42/5    Votes: 47   Popularity: 7.22
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A tiny app for timing things to 1/2 a second or so. My entry for the smallest useful app contest.
27 Nov 2002   Updated: 27 Nov 2002   Rating: 3.92/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 5.10
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A high-resolution code timer for VB.NET using Kernel32 functions
27 Jan 2004   Updated: 27 Jan 2004   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 21   Popularity: 6.39
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Methods for updating the system time based on an Internet reference.

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Alastair Dallas is a programmer, systems architect, and information designer with over 20 years experience at companies including Ashton-Tate, Lotus, Netscape, Documentum, and a wide variety of startups. Languages include C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and VB (in alphabetical order) as well as DHTML, XML, and related technologies. He has written 3 books, 2 on computer topics, and is President of Infospect Press.