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Dealing with DllImport, (Part 2 of 2)

In the first part of this article, I explained the basics of calling functions in unmanaged DLLs from managed .NET code. In this part, I’ll show you how to use

How To Launch CDs with HTML Applications

his article describes how to use an HTML Application (HTA) file that you can use to launch CD’s. Developers have had the ability to create HTML applications since the release

Coding for a Time-based Medium

As Flash MX becomes an integral part of enterprise applications and rich-media interfaces, developers must learn to incorporate Flash into their established software development processes. A few years ago, Flash’s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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