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Fast Way to Create and Send Email

An easy way to create and send email in VB (or any other language) is to use the “mailto:” protocol that already works on client computers. The technique makes a

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Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET

You can use the code in this tip to make web requests to a remote HTTP server and read the response: try{ // The URL http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx // is used here

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How to Store Oracle 10g Log Files in XML

Logging is a top priority for any project. Current versions of most popular databases have excellent logging capabilities, but it’s not always easy to get the logged data in a

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How to Detect JFrame Resizing

There are a couple of ways to track JFrame resizing. This method uses a while(true) loop, setting Thread.sleep to wait for some specified period of time. However, you could just

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Create and Save Thumbnails of Web Pages

You can use the .NET WebBrowser control to take thumbnails or full-size screenshots of loaded web pages, and then use the Bitmap class to save them locally. For example, to