Best VB.NET Article of June 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.

WPF Re-Size your Main Window from your UserControls

26 Jun 2014George Sefcik

Size-to-content just doesn't give you the window sizes you want for each usercontrol.

.NET

.NET3.5

WPF

Dev

A Complete Sample of Custom Class Collection Serialization and Deserialization

19 Jun 2014Maciej Los

If you want to know the way you can serialize and deserialize custom class collection, this tip is for you.

A powerful CSV document wrapper library

19 Jun 2014Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

I need a tool for exchange the data between my .NET program and R program, yeah this powerful library makes things better!

Linux

Windows

Dev

An Workaround for Double Click on Treeview Checkbox

10 Jun 2014Thava Rajan

This tip is used to fix a workaround for a bug in double click on checkbox

kissIT!: Rapid Agile Development, a practical approach to hybrid development in SQL, C# & VB.NET

4 Jun 2014rapidagiledevelopment

The Software Development process can be time consuming and stressful. Outlined here are some practical tips on how to ease the strain with kissIT!® applications within the context of Prototyping / Agile methods for SQL, C# & VB.NET.

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

25 Jun 2014SibeeshKV

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

Video Wall with MCIPlayerControl

5 Oct 2016Yang Kok Wah

Using a simple custom made video player control to display a video wall

Fun with Sound

10 Jul 2014Yang Kok Wah

Playing your favorite music and sound files all at once

.NET

Visual-Studio

VS2008

Fun with Video

6 Oct 2016Yang Kok Wah

Playing your favorite video all at the same time

VS2008

Dev

How to Embed Barcodes in Your SSRS Report

27 Jun 2014Philipp Katscher

How to use barcodelib generated Barcodes in SSRS (consider Barcode fonts don't work in runtime)

ExCB - Extended Multi Column ComboBox

21 Mar 2016Avelino Ferreira

Presenting an easy-to-use, flexible, filterable ComboBox, managing various data types (including images), also sortable, resizable and reordable columns

Load More Records in ASP.NET Gridview on Button Click from SQL Server Table

1 Jun 2014Webcodeexpert.com

In this article, I am going to demonstrate how to get more data on demand i.e. On every click of button fetch more records from SQL Server database table and load in GridView with wait/progress/loading image as shown in image in ASP.NET using both C# and VB languages.

DataToolbar

7 Jul 2014hgbecker

DataToolbar leads the standard DataNavigator to a higher level.

Clear Text On Windows Aero Glass

9 Jun 2014Rixterz123

How to get text to show perfectly clearly on Aero glass

Interfaces to Add Semantic Meaning

22 Jun 2014Duncan Edwards Jones

Using interfaces to add sematic meaning to your POCO classes

Current Participants

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

Avelino Ferreira

Retired

Portugal

Working on computers since Mar,6 1969
Languages: RPN, Fortran, COBOL, Univac 1100 Meta-assembler, Basic, Z80 Assembly, 8086 Assembly, IBM Assembler (360/370, 38xx, 43xx), Clipper, ANSI C, SQL, Visual Basic, VBA, VB.NET
Lately, some HTML, JavaScript, C#
Actually retired, but still developing (for pleasure).

Duncan Edwards Jones

Software Developer

Ireland

C# / SQL Server developer
Microsoft MVP (Azure) 2017
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic) 2006, 2007

George Sefcik

Software Developer (Senior) GWSoftware

United States

Independent Software Developer
There are no such things as problems...only opportunities to work harder!

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

Maciej Los

Team Leader

Poland

I'm a lawyer, teacher/trainer and author of VBA programming book (only polish version). Programming is my hobby and the source of extra earnings!

C#
SQL
Linq
VB/VBA/VB.NET
XML & XSL
Python
JCL

If you want to contact me... find me on LinkedIn.

Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Technical Lead PANOMIX

China

He is good and loves VisualBasic! Senior data scientist at PANOMIX

github: https://github.com/xieguigang

Philipp Katscher

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

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

rapidagiledevelopment

Founder Cove Bay Software Limited

United Kingdom

Cove Bay Software has over 18 years experience in Software Engineering including Analysis, Architecture Design, User Interface Design and Implementation in C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET & Delphi with SQL Server 2000 / 2005 / 2008 / 2012 & 2014.

Rigorous use of Design Patterns and strict adherence to Coding Standards ensure Product Quality.

We specialise in Custom Software Development using Agile / Prototyping (RAD) Methods and Tools to ensure rapid delivery of Products to Market.

We have just launched our range of kiss!® Rapid Agile Development Applications on www.rapidagiledevelopment.com for generating C# & VB.NET, SQL, DAL & BLL, script management, testing and much more

This is a Organisation

1 members

Rixterz123

United States

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

SibeeshKV

Software Developer (Senior) iInterChange Systems Pvt Ltd

India

I am a software engineer, holds 3 years of experience in Dot Net,C#, Vb.Net,jQuery

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.

Webcodeexpert.com

Software Developer (Senior) www.webcodeexpert.com

India

I am a passionate programmer and a Software Engineer love blogging and developing applications in Microsoft Technologies.
I have a blog https://www.webcodeexpert.com/
It is a collection of code snippets for web programmers, including code for Asp.Net, Sql Server, C#.Net, VB.Net, Ajax,LINQ, Jquery, JavaScript, XML, WCF Services, C, C++, Interview Questions and answers and more!

Yang Kok Wah

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Coder. Hacker. Fixer.

First Prize	Yang Kok Wah - Fun with Sound
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Avelino Ferreira - ExCB - Extended Multi Column ComboBox
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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