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Review: Visual Data Solution’s SmartCombo Control

Quick Facts SmartCombo Control 1.0Visual Data SolutionWeb: www.vds.us.comPrice: $120.00Quick Facts: SmartCombo is a COM control for Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, and any other Windows development environments that support COM

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Internationalize Your ASP.NET Applications (Part 1 of 3)

The Internet was originally used primarily by English-speakers, but the percentage of non-English speakers is increasing as Internet penetration increases. With huge populations in Asian countries coming online and European

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Creating Windows Services in .NET

uppose that your company’s field reps regularly upload files to the server, and the proper people need to be notified when these files arrive. Perhaps you need to monitor and

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Get Started with Multithreading in .NET

The concept of threads is central to the inner workings of most operating systems, including Windows, but relatively few programmers even know what they are?let alone how to take advantage

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Designing Resizable Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET

Most of you have heard of?and probably used?the new anchoring and docking properties available to Windows form controls. They enable controls to automatically resize or reposition themselves as the form

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Extending ASP.NET with HttpHandlers and HttpModules

ASP.NET provides a robust framework for your Web applications. However, at times it becomes necessary to go beyond the out-of-the-box functionality. For example, when you request a resource such as

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Writing Advanced .NET Remoting Clients

The .NET framework has a number of powerful Remoting features to make working with remote objects simple especially in the client side code. You can use factory patterns to enable

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Insert Explicit Values into the Identity Column of a Table

For inserting explicit values into the identity column of a table, IDENTITY_INSERT property is set to ON. Table tblName has got following fieldsCompanyID INT IDENTITY(1,1)CoName VARCHAR(75) And following the data:

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Serve Business Graphics from Any XML Source

Editor’s Note: The Visual Studio project included in the source code for this article requires ‘Office XP Web Components’ (OCW10). The development and run-time machines must have these installed. You

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The Help Generator add-in

This add-in tries to generate a complete HTML project from your VBproject forms. It iterates over the forms in your VB project and generates an htm file for all the

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Serialization and Events

Andrea Zanetti Riccardo Munisso Downolad code from here Introduction Serialization is a very powerful characteristic of the .NET Framework. Serialization make the task of object persistency very easy but there

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Handle child XML nodes with care

When you work with XML documents loaded into an XmlDocument class, you often need to examine the contents of child nodes. The XMLDOM programming interface purposedly provides the ChildNodes property.

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Automatically hyperlink URLs in ASP.NET Pages

Suppose that your ASP.NET pages display contents read from database fields. Suppose also that some of those fields may contain URLs or email addresses. A typical example is when you

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A better way to query for a single node

In the XmlNode class, that is the class that provides node functionality in an XMLDOM representation of an XML document, the SelectNodes (and the ancillary SelectSingleNode) method exploits the XPath

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Persist ADO.NET extended properties

Many ADO.NET classes, including DataSet, DataTable, and DataColumn, use the ExtendedProperties property to enable users to add custom information. Think of the ExtendedProperties property as a kind of generic cargo

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Continue After Hitting an Error

If you use VB6 to write COM programs that raise errors, it seems impossible to continue after hitting one of them. However, the (almost undocumented) commands ALT+F8 and ALT+F5 let

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Generate Rule-Based Random Strings

Use this function to generate random strings that abide by certain criteria. It Related Posts Verizon Quietly Closes Its Cloud Computing ServiceThe Fundamentals of Windows LoggingGoogle launches free dark web

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Change Oracle and SQL Server Passwords

You can change database passwords from within VB to control more of your application Related Posts How to Disable Auto-commit Mode in Spring BootDisappointing story on memory optimizationSecurity and Speakers

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Generate OLE DB Connection Strings

Many VB projects need a database connection string. But there Related Posts Scientist Tool Helps Rewrite Ruby CodeClimate change threatens coastal property valuesMeta Quest 3S VR headset price leakedHow to

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Create installations with Visual Studio Installer

Introducing Visual StudioInstaller VisualStudio Installer is a free tool from Microsoft for creating installations forWindows applications. Visual Studio Installer is available in two Englishversions: version 1.0 works on Windows 98

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Cleanup Your IF Statements with IN

IF statements can become quite long when you’re testing for multiple values. Using the IN expression can make them more readable.So, instead of typing: IF (@testvar = 1 or @testvar

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Use enum Terminated with count

Always use an enum instead of defines and always close the list with an additional count. This makes life simpler and helps the compiler.Instead of defines: #define TypeA 0#define TypeB

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OpenXML for Multiple Trips to the Database

Suppose you need to make multiple inserts (or updates or deletes) to a SQL Server database?for instance, inserting items in a shopping cart. In the past, you needed to loop