Best VB.NET article of January 2010

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Export UI Controls Aspect Information from 'Form' to Excel sheet

11 Jan 2010Anandhi Swamy

Exports UI control settings from a Form to an Excel sheet.

Dev

Ever Had to Tackle An OutOfMemory Exception?

29 Jan 2010Redgate Software

Finding and fixing troublesome code can be a time-consuming and frustrating task. Florian Standhartinger recently encountered such an experience and recounts how he managed to use a memory profiling tool to get the problem fixed. Read the full story.

.NET

Dev

product-showcase

Disable the Close box on a form

18 Feb 2012OriginalGriff

4 alternatives

Disable the Close box on a form

Access the Data Rows Filtered by the BindingSource.Filter Property

12 Mar 2010DaveAuld

1 alternative

I recently had created a windows forms application in VB.Net2008 and made use of the BindingSource control to bind all the forms controls to the underlying SQL Queried data.I built user functionality on the form to allow the user to further filter (client side filtering ) the original data...

Creating a Speech Balloon/Speech Bubble in GDI+

16 Nov 2010Clayton Rumley

A highly configurable class that can generate a few styles of speech balloons in GDI+.

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

12 Jan 2010Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Converting RTF to HTML in VB.NET the Easy Way

14 Jan 2010Hanleyk1

A quick and easy solution to produce excellent HTML from RTF without parsing

.NET

Dev

LayerGenMMX

2 Nov 2015icemanind

Easily create Business and Data Layers!

Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description

26 Jan 2010OriginalGriff

Normally I keep information like this in a text file, in a folder called "How To Do It", as it is handy to have around, and too much work to search for each time I need it, but too much detail for me to remember if I don't use it often. Formatting a DateTime for display:DateTime.ToString()...

.NET

Updating Your Form from Another Thread without Creating Delegates for Every Type of Update

8 Oct 2010Michael Demeersseman

Updating your form from another thread without creating delegates for every type of update

Customisation with VB - Changing Logon Backgrounds in Windows 7

24 Jan 2010Saul Johnson

Using VB to change Windows 7 logon backgrounds

Extended ASP.NET GridView with cell click events

21 Jan 2010Divan van der Watt

An extended ASP.NET Gridview control with cell click events.

Generic grid search and data paging

25 Jan 2010KevGUID

Generic grid search and data paging explained.

Parallel Processing MS Access VBA Application

29 Jan 2010Avi Farah

Adding paralell processing capability to MS Access VBA code.

Windows

Dev

REINSTALLMODE=amus

17 Feb 2010alisissa

When you are working on a windows application and deploying your solution every now and then, you should be aware on not deleting all files on reinstall like the database file and some files generated by the user.But when changing you application setup project version number you will notice...

installer

DES and Triple DES Implementation in VB.NET

28 Jan 2010Ted Ehrich

A simple DES/Triple DES implementation in VB.NET that doesn't have instantiation overhead.

.NET

.NETCF

Dev

Drag and Drop on a Web Form

18 Jan 2010Sigurd Johansen

How to insert a textbox on a Web page at runtime, dragging it to the right position and by using a database retrieve the position when starting the application up again

Javascript

Dev

Validate password strength on the server side

9 Jan 2010Ehsan Valizadeh

This code will validate a password on the server side. ;) Imports System.Text.RegularExpressionsPublic Class PasswordAdvisor Enum PasswordScore Blank = 0 VeryWeak = 1 Weak = 2 Medium = 3 Strong = 4 VeryStrong = 5 End Enum ...

Solution - SEO Permanent Redirects for Old URLs?

13 Jan 2010Martin Hinshelwood

SEO permanent redirects for old URLs

How to List all Files in Directory as hyperlink

24 Jan 2010dhamenha

One day i created many aspx files in one directory, then I wanted to browse those files without going and clicking each one of them, I decided to write small function to create a hyperlink for each file. I thought someone else might benefit from the code, here it is: strDir =...

Windows

ASP.NET

Compact Framework Configuration XML File Read & Write like appSettings

13 Jan 2010Alejandro Barrada

How to use an XML file to read and write aplication settings in a Window Mobile development

Retain Password Field in ASP.NET Post Back

26 Apr 2010M.Premraj

Normally, whenever a form is posted backed, the password field will clear. But we dont want it to do that. In that scenario, we can add a little bit of code will avoid the issue.Retain Password In VB.NETProtected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)...

ASP.NET

web_development

Current Participants

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Alejandro Barrada

Spain

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alisissa

United States

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Anandhi Swamy

Architect

India

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Avi Farah

United States

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Clayton Rumley

Software Developer (Senior) digifi inc.

Canada

Clayton Rumley is web developer for hire from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

DaveAuld

Engineer

Scotland

I have been working in the Oil & Gas Industry for over 30 years now.

Core Discipline is Instrumentation and Control Systems.

Completed Bsc Honours Degree (B29 in Computing) with the Open University in 2012.

Currently, Offshore Installation Manager in the Al Shaheen oil field, which is located off the coast of Qatar. Prior to this, 25 years of North Sea Oil & Gas experience.

dhamenha

Web Developer

Saudi Arabia

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Divan van der Watt

Software Developer

South Africa

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Ehsan Valizadeh

Turkey

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Hanleyk1

Software Developer

United States

Hanley Loller. Ex-professional kayaker went back to school at 30 to learn computer programming. Earned my BS in computer science from East Tennessee State University in 2001. Worked for a couple of different companies before landing in the Office of Computing and Information Technology at the Kentucky State Legislature where I mostly write applications using SQL and VB.net. I love my job, but it's still not as good as kayaking for a living.

icemanind

Web Developer http://www.icemanind.com

United States

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KevGUID

Software Developer (Senior) RoadSight

Bolivia

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M.Premraj

Software Developer (Senior)

India

my technical blog http://kbrecord.com/

Martin Hinshelwood

Instructor / Trainer naked ALM

United States

About the Author: Martin has worked with many customers in government, finance, manufacturing, health and technology to help them improve their processes and deliver more. He provides management and technical consulting that intends to expose processes and practices to gain transparency, uncover impediments to value delivery and reduce cycle-time as part of an organisations path to agility. Martin is a Professional Scrum Trainer as well as a Visual Studio ALM MVP and Visual Studio ALM Ranger. He writes regularly on http://nakedalm.com/blog, and speaks often on Scrum, good practices and Visual Studio ALM.

You can get in touch with Martin through naked ALM.

Michael Demeersseman

Belgium

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OriginalGriff

CEO

Wales

Born at an early age, he grew older. At the same time, his hair grew longer, and was tied up behind his head.
Has problems spelling the word "the".
Invented the portable cat-flap.
Currently, has not died yet. Or has he?

Redgate Software

Red Gate Software Ltd.

United Kingdom

Redgate makes ingeniously simple software used by 804,745 IT professionals and counting, and is the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor. Our philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems developers and DBAs face every day, and help them adopt database DevOps. As a result, more than 100,000 companies use products in the Redgate SQL Toolbelt, including 91% of those in the Fortune 100.

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Saul Johnson

Software Developer

United Kingdom

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Sigurd Johansen

Web Developer

Norway

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Ted Ehrich

United States

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