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Best VB.NET article of October 2008

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Current Entries

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7 Jan 2013LEADTOOLS Support
Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.
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6 Oct 2008chrissie1
An article on how to use the new AAA (Arrange, Act and Assert) syntax using VB.Net. And the difference between the new and the old syntax.
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12 Jan 2012SSDiver2112
An RGB/HSB color selection control with an eye-dropper and quick swatches.
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16 Feb 2012MickRivers
An article about an application and its underlying XPS utilities package which create a new XPS file from a source XPS file with pages removed and/or reordered as designated by the user
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1 Oct 2008SSDiver2112
A ComboBox like dropdown control that controls can be dropped onto and arranged at design time.
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24 Apr 2011LiQuick
How to mail enable AD accounts using LDAP and Exchange 2007.
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20 Mar 2009Alexey Z1
My post-build tool transforming any WebApplication into a library containing .ascx controls.
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16 Oct 2008keenthinker
An object oriented class automating the creation of PDF files from any file using freeware tools.
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5 Oct 2008johnsontroye
Demonstrates how to keep WPF UIs responsive while running long processes, through asynchronous programming.
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7 Oct 2008Vishal Shukla
The article is a follow up article to Introduction to ADO.NET Sync Services and takes a look at how easily we can convert a 2 Tier Sync application to N tier using WCF services.
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1 Oct 2008Nicolas Wälti
Component derived from Panel that acts like a window (glass)
24 Oct 2008JetBrains s.r.o.
ReSharper is undoubtedly the most intelligent add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio. It comes equipped with a rich set of features that greatly increase the productivity of C# and Visual Basic.NET developers. With ReSharper, you get in-depth code analysis, intelligent coding assistance, on-the-fly error
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6 Oct 2008Gregory Gadow
Centralize your resources into a single module and export them in an organized, controlled way.
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26 Oct 2008Søren Eilsø
This ASP.NET 2.0 UserControl will add a shadow to an image on your webpage.
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5 Oct 2008Michael Rosqvist
A utility to capture a bit of the desktop.
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28 Dec 2012sbrakl
Explain the basic of Delegate in VB.NET
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5 Oct 2008Jay Kay
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
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11 Oct 2008dasjoedf
3D pie Charts and Trigonometry
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18 Oct 2008Matt Fomich
Instructions for using the Cards dynamic Link library. FreeCell game included.
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31 Oct 2008Eric P Schneider
A listbox which supports custom drawing properties for each list item.
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3 Oct 2008Grant Porteous
Techniques to make license input forms more user friendly.
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20 Oct 2008Sailung Limbu
This article demonstrate flexible client-side table sorting
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1 Oct 2008Gregory Gadow
Find your users' preferred browser and launch it safely, with or without a starting URL.
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17 Oct 2008hayes.adrian
Use GetEntryAssembly to obtain an executable's assembly name - even from a DLL.
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13 Oct 2008saratan60
How to size a TextBox to fit its contents
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30 Oct 2008Bhupindra Singh
Data type aliasing allows us to use an alias of a data type instead of actual data type name
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9 Nov 2008dheerajindian
Small but important questions

Current Participants

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Software Developer (Senior) HRsoft
Russian Federation Russian Federation
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
India India
I started programming for fun when I was in Higher Secondary (1995). It was a table writing program in C..haah!! those were the best days of my life Smile | :)

But now it has brought me to no. of jobs in roles of developer, Lead, Architect, Coach and Consultant....

.Net c# is my passion specially when it comes to build api and frameworks to facilitates development teams....

I always learned things by example, now its a pleasure and responsiblity to give learnings back to next generation of coders.
Software Developer (Senior) NICC
Belgium Belgium
I am a forensic technician who does some programming on the side. So I spend 75% of my time programming so that my collegues have to do less work Wink | ;-) .

I use VB.Net and C# with SQL-server as the database.
I try to use DDD and TDD techniques whenever possible.

You can find me and a lot of other professionals at LesstThanDot. Where I also host my blog.
Australia Australia
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Web Developer Hexaware Technologies
India India
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Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
Software Engineer, .Net
President Puresoto Group, Inc
United States United States
Puresoto Group, Inc, and Puresoto Group Consulting provides custom software development solutions. While we specialize in Healthcare solutions, we provide expert consulting on a wide range of Windows based technologies, including data manipulation, productivity enhancements through tools and applications and custom web development.
United States United States
Gregory Gadow recently graduated from Central Washington University with a B.S. that combined economics and statistical analysis, and currently works for the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife as an IT developer. He has been writing code for 30 years in more than a dozen programming languages, including Visual Basic, VB.Net, C++, C#, ASP, HTML, XML, SQL, and R.
Systems Engineer ThomsonReuters Tax & Accounting
United States United States
I am a Senior System Administrator for a 400+ server ASP farm. With such a large farm and limited staff, our goal is to add as much automation as possible to the system. Most of my programming consists of intelligent slack: spending 2 hours to write a program that handles a reoccurring 10 minute manual job.
Web Developer
New Zealand New Zealand
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Czech Republic Czech Republic
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This is a Organisation (No members)

Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
I have been Software developer for the past 10 years. Mostly worked in web world in asp.net and c#. Recently began job using wpf and vb.net.

Also enjoy reading books on politics and American history, listening to music, and COD on XBox 360.

Visit my blog at: www.anothercodesite.com/blog

All posts have source code for both C# and VB.
Software Developer
Germany Germany
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Help desk / Support LEAD Technologies, Inc.
United States United States
Since 1990, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of software development toolkits for document, medical, multimedia, raster and vector imaging. LEAD's flagship product, LEADTOOLS, holds the top position in every major country throughout the world and boasts a healthy, diverse customer base and strong list of corporate partners including some of the largest and most influential organizations from around the globe. For more information, contact sales@leadtools.com or support@leadtools.com.
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Software Developer
Netherlands Netherlands
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United States United States
mattfomich@yahoo.com
Web Developer
Sweden Sweden
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Software Developer
United States United States
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Software Developer (Senior)
Switzerland Switzerland
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Software Developer
Nepal Nepal
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Web Developer
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Architect TATA Communications
India India
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Founder In2Software
Denmark Denmark
Søren is the proud founder of In2Software.
A danish software house delivering professionel software solutions for the web and your desktop.
Software Developer
United States 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#...
Architect L&T Infotech
India India
Vishal has over 17 years of IT experience with over 15 years on Microsoft technologies from QW Basic to .net 4.5. Vishal works as a Lead Architect for the L&T Infotech. He has given various presentaions at code camps, Teched Tweener and various user group events.
Winner of INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3.
Microsoft VB .Net MVP 2009-2011
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