Best VB.NET Article of September 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.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Powerful ShellScript for bioinformatics researchers

14 Oct 2014Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

The ShellScript is originally developed for the debugging of my "genome-in-code" virtual cell simulation engine, but now it becomes a script language for a .Net program.

VB12

Windows

VS2013

Dev

parallel-processing

scripting

To Get Id of a gridview Which is Placed Inside a User Control Form webPage

4 Sep 2014Yashwanth R

To fetch the ID of a grid view control which is inside a User Control

Javascript

.NET

ASP.NET

Using Web Configs Key Value pair in classical Asp pages

19 Sep 2014Shekhar Pankaj

Using Web Configs Key Value pair in classical Asp pages

DragListControl: A New Type of Control to Select an Item from a List

1 Sep 2014Menci Lucio

This is a control that lets you select an item from a list with a single gesture

How to hide information in an Image

22 Sep 2014Tino Fourie

Use an image to store passwords to be used to Encrypt / Decrypt information

.NET

VS2013

Create Falling Blocks games in .NET

4 Sep 2014Luis Pérez Fernández

Create your own Falling Blocks game in .Net WinForms platform.

Create an ASP.NET Web Forms Application using Bootstrap and Web API

20 Oct 2015Sreekanth Mothukuru

In this article, we are going to create an ASP.NET Web Forms application using Bootstrap, Bundle Resources and Web API

Multiple File Upload with Progress Bar and Drag and Drop

20 Feb 2019Igor Krupitsky

The ASP.NET pages let you upload, delete and browse files in a folder.

Javascript

ASP.NET

Plotting a Specific Location on an Image While Zooming In(+) or Out(-)

23 Sep 2014Tino Fourie

Retain a plotted location on an image while zooming in(+)/out(-).

.NET

Visual-Studio

image

Why Use ASP.NET for Web Development

13 Sep 2014Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

A slight comparison of ASP.NET upon other (web) programming languages in the market and a discussion of me and some other (web) programming language developers.

Select GridView Row By Clicking Anywhere In Row

8 Sep 2014phil2415

How to modify an ASP.NET GridView so that clicking anywhere in a row will select that row.

.NET

EF Code First Fluent Configuration of Abstract Entities

10 Sep 2014cjb110

How to configure columns of abstract entities.

Create ADO.NET SQLite Database Programmatically by using VB.NET

3 Sep 2014Lau Han Ching

Create ADO.NET SQLite Database programmatically by using VB.NET

.NET

VS2013

Calculator Sample in WCF ’ VB

9 Sep 2014Sunil S. Bhagwat

This is a simple calculator that contains four basic mathematical functions for common calculation.

WCF

MIDI Monitor Written in Visual Basic

14 May 2021Paul Srmnn

Using VisualBasic Express 2010

Windows

Visual-Studio

How your web site can determine if the user is running their IE browser in compatibility mode.

19 Sep 2014kubben

This article show a quick way to determine if a user's IE browser is in compatibility mode.

Current Participants

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

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Software Developer

Pakistan

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

cjb110

Software Developer Bank Of Ireland

United Kingdom

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

Igor Krupitsky

Web Developer

United States

Igor is a business intelligence consultant working in Tampa, Florida. He has a BS in Finance from University of South Carolina and Masters in Information Management System from University of South Florida. He also has following professional certifications: MCSD, MCDBA, MCAD.

kubben

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I started my programmer career over 26 years ago doing COBOL and SAS on a MVS mainframe. It didn't take long for me to move into windows programming. I started my windows programming in Delphi (Pascal) with a Microsoft SQL server back end. I started working with vb.net when the beta 2 came out in 2001. After spending most of my programming life as a windows programmer I started to check out asp.net in 2004. I achieved my MCSD.net in April 2005. I have done a lot of MS SQL database stuff. I have a lot of experience with Window Service and Web services as well. I spent three years as a consultant programing in C#. I really enjoyed it and found the switch between vb.net and C# to be mostly syntax. In my current position I am programming in C# working on WPF and MSSql database stuff. Lately I have been using VS2019.

On a personal note I am a born again Christian, if anyone has any questions about what it means to have a right relationship with God or if you have questions about who Jesus Christ is, send me an e-mail. ben.kubicek[at]netzero[dot]com You need to replace the [at] with @ and [dot] with . for the email to work. My relationship with God gives purpose and meaning to my life.

Lau Han Ching

Help desk / Support

Malaysia

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

Luis Pérez Fernández

Software Developer (Senior)

Spain

I'm a software architect. I began working in software creation 20+ years ago. I started with VB 3, continued exclusively with Windows development in VB/MS Access until version 6 and then I moved to Microsoft .Net (since its earlier 1.0 version) and SQL Server architecture. Since then, I've worked only with .Net and SQL Server, contributing to the development of a wide range of applications: Windows Forms, Web Forms, Smart Devices, Windows Phone, Silverlight, WPF... But mainly I focus on ASP.Net Web Forms applications and Windows Forms applications. I have a deep knowledge of Win32 API and GDI/GDI+ (hence my favorite namespace: System.Drawing!)

I live in Ciudad Real (Spain), with my loved wife, my 2 precious and smart daughters, my 5 cats and Max, my dog.

Menci Lucio

Team Leader

Italy

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

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

Paul Srmnn

Netherlands

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

phil2415

United Kingdom

IT Manager for a large higher education institution in the North West of England with responsibility and experience in everything from networking, systems administration, database administration, helpdesk support, web development, etc. since 2003.

I tend to develop web applications in ASP.NET and VB.NET, with a bit of JavaScript and C# thrown in for good measure at times.

Shekhar Pankaj

Software Developer

India

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

Sreekanth Mothukuru

Technical Lead

India

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

Sunil S. Bhagwat

India

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

Tino Fourie

South Africa

Studied Software Development many moons ago, when the sun was still high for Cobol, Fortran, Basic, etc. programmers. However, I found corporate networks and systems more challenging and rewarding than sitting behind a desk all day long doing mostly maintenance on code. Mainframes were the super computers at the time and Tatung made very fancy desktop computers and to soop them up you had to have a TsengLabs VGA card, EGA CRT and a SoundBlaster sound card installed into the system - only then could you call yourself a Boss!

Later in life I reached a turning point where the saying "Jack of all trades, Master of none" became my driving force. I will do everything I know nothing about. Since then, life has become an adventure and not just a journey.

At the moment I write software tools to connect users with disconnected data.

Yashwanth R

Software Developer

India

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

First Prize	Luis Pérez Fernández - Create Falling Blocks games in .NET
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Igor Krupitsky - Multiple File Upload with Progress Bar and Drag and Drop
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
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