Best VB.NET article of July 2008

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Current Entries

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Create Data-entry Forms in Minutes Using ComponentOne InputPanel

18 Jul 2008MESCIUS

ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms is a new paradigm to create and maintain data-entry forms. It is a panel that is placed on a form to help create powerful data input applications. Simply connect C1InputPanel to any data source and an input control for each field is automatically created for you.

VS2008

Visual-Studio

VS2005

Dev

DBA

Border Container

10 Feb 2010Elkay

A collapsable container control with complete header, border, and color customization. Also has the ability to utilize an 'Activation' button (like the 'Active Files' button you'll find at the top of every form in the Visual Studio IDE).

.NET

Windows

Dev

SQL Class Shell Generator

8 Jan 2009Paw Jershauge

Generate class shells from SQL Server database tables, (SQL 2005 & 2008 only). Output languages supported: C# and VB.NET.

Simple Image Annotation - How to dynamically add rotated text to an image

2 Jul 2008SSDiver2112

Add outlined text to an image, rotate it, and move it around with the mouse.

Professional System Library: Introduction

22 Nov 2010Vitaly Tomilov

A simplified and unified way for accessing most frequently used information about Process, System, and Environment.

Developing custom ASP.NET Membership and Role providers reading users from custom section in the web.config

7 Aug 2008Andreas Botsikas

In this article, we will be developing custom Membership and Role providers which will read user credentials from a custom configuration section in the web.config file.

WMI wrapper

3 Jul 2008Eric Marcon

A wrapper to provide WMI classes for .NET solutions.

.NET component that simplifies tracking of system's idle time

13 Jul 2008Dazdarevic Edin

A .NET component that simplifies tracking of system's idle time.

Automatically Create Data Access Layers and Business Layers From Microsoft Access or SQL Server Databases

27 May 2016icemanind

How to automatically create data access layers and business layers from a Microsoft Access or a SQL Server database

Zip Files Easy!

25 Jul 2008CS Rocks

The purpose of this article is to demonstrating zipping files using the ZipPackage class in this System.IO.Packaging namespace. This demonstration uses: VB.Net 2008 .Net, Framwork 3.0.

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Printing in .NET

22 Apr 2014Duncan Edwards Jones

Introduces and discusses the Common Language Runtime framework classes used in printing from a .NET Windows Forms application.

CuttingEdge.Conditions

23 Jun 2011The .NET Junkie

A pre- and postcondition validation framework based on .NET 3.5 extension methods

Use Subversion Revision Numbers in your Visual Studio Projects

17 Jul 2008Paul Betteridge

SVN Keywords are not sufficient for retrieving the highest revision number for your project. This simple method solves this problem.

Implementing Application Security with Client Application Services in VS2008

17 Jul 2008Nowak Alexander

The ASP.NET provider framework for Membership, Role, and Profile functionality in .NET 3.5 is made available for non-ASP.NET consumers in the form of Client Application Services. This means that, for example, in a WinForms application, you can implement Forms Authentication as easy as in an ASP.NET

Yet Another Code Generator

22 Dec 2008Stein Borge

Template based code generator

Screen Capture Class

5 Aug 2008Arman Ghazanchyan

The SCapture class allows an application to capture still screen images

Customized ListBox Control: Part 1 - Collection Events

11 Jul 2008Calle Mellergardh

Create a listbox control that provides events for when adding or removing items.

Easy String Compression and Encryption

1 Jul 2008BTDex

Class module to easily de-/compress and en-/decrypt big strings

Changing the Systems Cursor in VB.NET

15 Jul 2008Dan Dombrowski

Replace a cursor system-wide and restore it to the original cursor.

Secret Key Encryption Demo

25 Jul 2008CS Rocks

1 alternative

This application demonstrates how to perform secret encryption using VB.NET and the .NET Framework 3.0.

Creating a BulletedList control to replace the asp:BulletedList

17 Jul 2008bgs264

I needed a simple control to display a bulleted list based on a strongly typed list of strings.

Video Transcoding "YouTube-Style" with ffmpeg

3 Jul 2008Jonathan Lathigee

A webservice to transcode videos to FLV, while maintaining aspect ratio

Opening Jars with Visual Basic

8 Jul 2008salysle

This article shall describe an approach that may be used to extract Jar files.

Visual-Studio

VS2008

Dev

Cascading Deletes in LINQ to SQL with Visual Basic

8 Jul 2008salysle

This article will discuss alternative methods for performing cascading deletes using LINQ to SQL.

SQL

LINQ

Dev

Context-Sensitive Help for Toolstrip Items

9 Jul 2008Ivan Alles

How to bind context-sensitive help to .NET ToolStrip items.

Business Centric Architecture

9 Jul 2008radusib

Design the business layer using a provider pattern

How to Start and Debug a Windows Service with Visual Studio 2008

17 Jul 2008Michael Leithold

This article demonstrates how to start and debug a Windows service with Visual Studio 2008.

Display images from a SQL database - the easy way

5 Jul 2008FF77

This project contains a Web Custom Control for rendering images directly from the database. Can be used with image fields, text, date, or numerical fields (it generates an image containing the text), and with URL fields (like in a regular image control).

How to retrieve multiple datakeys from a FormView control

22 Jul 2008SeaWater

This article will show how to retrieve multiple datakeys from a FormView control.

.NET

ASP.NET

Dev

NHibernate Simple VB.Net Example Tutorial

22 Jul 2008questprogrammer

NHibernate using VB.Net

Copy Files from Source to Target location based on the file creation date

21 Jul 2008Jans Mary Suncy

Copying files from source locaion to target location based on the file creation date

VB6

Game Class Inheritance

14 Jul 2008gerudobombshell

A way to simplify your game classes and code for maximum efficency.

Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

14 Jul 2008Marius Iulian Mihailescu

Security is a very important topic and a very complicated one in ASP.NET.

Scrollable GridView

15 Jul 2008Jay Stacey

Creating a scrollable GridView with a fixed header.

Chess Application Class Design Using the Abstract Factory Design Pattern

17 Jul 2008Louwgi

A class design using the Abstract Factory Design Pattern for a chess application.

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Andreas Botsikas

Web Developer

Greece

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Arman Ghazanchyan

Software Developer (Senior) ZipEdTech

United States

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bgs264

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I graduated with a First class honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Salford in June 2006. Shortly after I graduated, I started my first job as a web developer in a small consultancy company in the North-West. I have since moved to a larger organisation in Manchester, which is a bit closer to my home.

My development is 99% ASP.NET based with the remaining 1% being ad-hoc console applications or Windows services, and although I prefer to develop in C# (just because I think it is cleaner), VB is what is used in the team.

BTDex

Germany

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Calle Mellergardh

Software Developer

Sweden

I started out programming in VB3 and Pascal moving on to VB5-6. Last couple of years I've been working with the .NET framework and mainly C#.
Currently I'm working for an automation company writing specialized desktop software. In my spare time (what ever's left of it) I enjoy playing the drums and walking the dog.

CS Rocks

Software Developer DataPrint, LLC

United States

My blog: http://www.garylima.blogspot.com/

Dan Dombrowski

Software Developer 12:34 MicroTechnologies, Inc.

United States

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Dazdarevic Edin

Software Developer DevLogic d.o.o

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Software Developer

Ireland

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

Elkay

United States

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Eric Marcon

Engineer

France

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FF77

Software Developer (Senior)

Romania

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gerudobombshell

United States

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icemanind

Web Developer http://www.icemanind.com

United States

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Ivan Alles

Software Developer GuiProf

Germany

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Jans Mary Suncy

Software Developer Capgemini India

India

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Jay Stacey

Software Developer (Junior) Startech.com

Canada

I am a Fanshawe College Student in the Computer Programmer Analyst Program. I have been programming since I was 13 years old. I look forward to expanding my knowledge and sharing it with everyone.

Jonathan Lathigee

Chief Technology Officer zero one design Inc.

Canada

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Louwgi

Web Developer

South Africa

Gideon Louw is a qualified MCSD and software professional.

He developed several industrial and government related applications that has successfully been installed all over the world.

Marius Iulian Mihailescu

Team Leader

Romania

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MESCIUS

United States

We provide award-winning reporting and business intelligence solutions, software services, and enterprise solutions to Fortune 1000 companies in the hi tech, financial, healthcare, government and other vertical markets. We are a global, privately held corporation of 400 employees, with a strong track record of consistent growth, success, and profitability.

MESCIUS’ family of products provides developers, designers, and architects with the ultimate collection of easy-to-use tools for building sleek, high-performing, feature-complete applications. For over 40 years, MESCIUS has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer components, software services, and solutions.

We strive to create an engaging and constructive community through our LinkedIn page. We welcome feedback, new ideas and lively interaction. We do, however, reserve the right to remove any postings of a vulgar, profane, discriminatory, promotional or inappropriate nature.

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Michael Leithold

Germany

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Nowak Alexander

Software Developer Capgemini

Belgium

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Paul Betteridge

Software Developer (Senior) PB-NET LTD

United Kingdom

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Paw Jershauge

Software Developer

Denmark

blog: C# And I
About.me Paw Jershauge
ListView Group Sorter
An Code Generator, for making SQL table into .Net Classses (2nd place in the Code Generation 2008 Competition)
A Class for getting the Rss feed list of a website
Seagate Date Code Calculator
DNSBL lookup Class
Base N converter (N = 10-62)
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Uniform resource identifier (LDAPUri)
LoginHours from DirectoryEntry into boolean array

questprogrammer

Software Developer

United States

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

radusib

Architect

New Zealand

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salysle

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

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SeaWater

Web Developer

United States

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SSDiver2112

Software Developer

United States

I first got hooked on programing with the TI994A. After it finally lost all support I reluctantly moved to the Apple IIe. Thank You BeagleBros for getting me through. I wrote programs for my Scuba buisness during this time. Currently I am a Database manager and software developer. I started with VBA and VB6 and now having fun with VB.NET/WPF/C#...

Stein Borge

Australia

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The .NET Junkie

Software Developer (Senior)

Netherlands

I'm a freelance developer from the Netherlands, working with .NET technology on a daily basis, and officially diagnosed as a workaholic.

Vitaly Tomilov

Software Developer (Senior) Sibedge IT

Ireland

My online CV: cv.vitalytomilov.com

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