Best VB.NET Article of May 2014

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

State Machine - State Pattern vs. Classic Approach

5 Aug 2014Chris875

State pattern and procedural solution illustrated

XML

.NET3.5

.NET3.0

A Parallel Class Study: Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabilized

3 Dec 2018Amir Emamjomeh

A study of .NET Parallel Class in solving a system of linear equations using bi-conjugate gradient stabilized method

XML

.NET

parallel

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

28 May 2014Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

Allow Form to close when invalid data is present

24 May 2014CHill60

Allowing a User to cancel a Form when Validation is in place and invalid data has been entered.

Windows

Textbox Control with Autocomplete

27 May 2014Taucher Christoph

WindowsForm Textbox with custom Autocomplete function

.NET

Possible solutions for an .Net 4 compiler bug that raise an MissingMemberException by acessing the index property of an SqlParameterCollection from an SqlCommand

14 May 2014Peter BCKR

In legacy applications you can get a MissingMemberException bei acessing a SqlParameterCollection if you work with object-variables there are reference a SqlCommand-Instance.

Row Highlighting in WPF Grids

14 May 2014Markus Wallner-Novak

Short example of highlighting a grid row on textbox got focus

.NET

WPF

Dev

Why My Thread Safe Generic List Does Not Respect My Enumerator

22 May 2014a_pess

ThreadSafe Generic List

VB12

Moving Memory in .NET using VB and the CIL

22 Jun 2014Nathaniel Moschkin

Topics and methods on programming in .NET and performance considerations

advanced TextBox

7 May 2014hgbecker

Inherited Textbox with extended properties and validation control.

.NET

How to fix "LocalDB - Requested Login failed"

20 May 2014Ed Nutting

How to fix LocalDB / SQL Server: "Cannot open database "XYZ" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ABC"

DllExports - Common Problems and Solutions

8 Aug 2014Mattias Högström

Learn how to export functions from a DLL, and obtain full language independence

Falling Blocks Board and Shape Control

2 Jul 2014Yang Kok Wah

Implementing the all time favourite game as .NET custom controls, complete with animation and sound for full gaming experience

How to fake "freeze" last row in datagridview. Create a footer row for a datagridview.

15 Oct 2017Heriberto Lugo

Footer row to sum columns in a datagridview.

SMO Scripting Based on Dependency

17 Feb 2020Thava Rajan

Prepare script for specific objects

SQL

A SQL-Like IN function for C# and VB.NET

10 Mar 2017CHill60

Simplify complex if-statements with "where value in list"

.NET

Dev

Uploading files using Box API

7 May 2014Chamila Nishantha

Guide to upload files to Box using Box API

.NET

Architect

Improving your ASP.NET web form application's performance

12 May 2014Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to Improve your existing ASP.NET Web Form Application performance using Javascript / Jquery and Web Services.

QuickVB - Fork

6 May 2014Terence Wallace

A QuickBasic like console app for modern day VB.NET.

Load datagridview from CSV or TXT File

22 May 2014maffeinet

A simple code that loads a daagridview from a textfile

CSV

text

DataGridView

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

a_pess

Engineer

Egypt

Oil & Gas Engineer
C# & VB.net
Coding For Fun Only

Amir Emamjomeh

Engineer

United Kingdom

Amir Emamjomeh is a full-stack developer and petroleum reservoir engineer at PSL.

Chamila Nishantha

Software Developer

Sri Lanka

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

CHill60

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

Slowing down. Now working as a "Business Automation Consultant".

"Abandon all hope of ever being understood, all ye who have a good idea but don't say it perfectly." Doug Bernard

Chris A. Johnson

CEO Kolaberate Software inc.

Canada

Chris is a .NET Architect with over 17 years of experience working with various Microsoft technologies including most recently ASP.NET, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS and Sharepoint. Chris is now C.E.O. of Kolaberate Software, based in Vancouver, B.C.

Chris875

Software Developer

Germany

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ed Nutting

Student

United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Heriberto Lugo

United States

Applications Developer for a very cool company in Connecticut which is one of the top 5 Amazon sellers. Currently using C# (web and desktop) and SilverLight/LightSwitch.

Self taught programmer. I have been learning programming since 2001. Began with HTML, CSS, JavaScript during the days of the browser wars with Netscape's layer tag. I Started learning Perl, then Java. Couldn't get to far with Java because NetBeans always froze my Windows ME machine after a few minutes. Since then I have learned C++, VB.Net, C# (winforms, aspx and SilverLight/LightSwitch), php (core, Drupal theming and WorpPress plugins/widgets), MySQL, T-SQL, and SQLite.

I still create webpages, and do my own graphics, but prefer working on desktop applications. I spend my free time working on desktop projects, or helping beginners where I can in forums.

I worked for a short period as a web developer and pc hardware technician. During which I learned the basics of networking and a small amount of server admin (including running multiple virtual windows to act as dummy machines for workstations using dedicated lan ports with dedicated ip addresses..

Most of my professional experience however has been in the automotive field. I began working in automotive after about 1 year after I found my interest in IT. I was using my work to pay for bills while I attended college for graphic design. Eventually went to school for programming, but only survived for 2 semesters, paying upfront for the classes was to much to handle so I once again had to stop my schooling.

hgbecker

Founder TechDoc G. Becker

Germany

I'am developing Applications since the Comodore 64 Computer was available to the marked.
At present I'm programming in Visual Studio 2012 using C# and mostly Visual Basic.
Sorry for Language mistakes but as a German English is not my native Language. But I hope anyone is able to understand me.

Best Regards from Germany
Happy coding
Guenter

maffeinet

Software Developer (Junior)

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Markus Wallner-Novak

Engineer WallnerMild TimberEngineering Software

Austria

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mattias Högström

Architect Visma Software AB

Sweden

Mattias works at Visma, a leading Nordic ERP solution provider. He has good knowledge in C++/.Net development, test tool development, and debugging. His great passion is memory dump analysis. He likes giving talks and courses.

Nathaniel Moschkin

Software Developer

United States

I have been programming in VB/VB .NET and Windows for a very long time.

I have been programming, in general, for a very very long time.

Started in C/C++ under DOS (when I was 10, in 1986!). I even wrote a FOSSIL driver in assembly (for those of you who remember what a FOSSIL is, you're a fossil, I'm a fossil)... so I got a book that taught me serial port interrupt driven communications routines in C and ASM. Then I moved on to Pascal. Pascal disappeared and became unavailable to my youth and poorness (when it became Delphi).

Moved on to VB 6, from VB 6 I discovered the Windows API and, in fact, I am developing an ever more exhaustive port of the Windows API into VB .NET.

(I recently just reinstalled my VB 6 compiler on my Windows 8.1 system. Windows 8.1 made several protests and at least one dialog box suggested I needed therapy, I think ... but it still ran, and compiled! I use it mainly to reference my ancient projects to slowly port them into .NET ... yes, still. )

Now, here I am, years later, still learning, still working with VB (and to a lesser extent C# and to an even lesser extent C++).

I've been concentrating on getting good practice with WPF and WCF and all of the other neat Microsoft technologies of the current era.

Peter BCKR

Software Developer (Senior)

Germany

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Taucher Christoph

Austria

You can find my Blog @ dlution.at

Terence Wallace

Founder Arkitech EBC Corporation

United States

MS, BBA, software developer, consultant, and trainer. Specializing in building data-centric applications designed for business, university, community & faith based organizations. Started developing Excel VBA macros and never looked back. Freelance developer utilizing VB.Net, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and ASP.Net.

Thava Rajan

Architect

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Yang Kok Wah

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Coder. Hacker. Fixer.

First Prize	Nathaniel Moschkin - Moving Memory in .NET using VB and the CIL
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Terence Wallace - QuickVB - Fork
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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