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Best VB.NET Article of January 2015

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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

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5 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
Entry-level examples on MVVM pattern, explaining the basic methods to mantain separated a program's graphical interface from its business logic
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3 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to save DataGrid column's properties for further re-use
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16 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
Definitions and examples of a genetic algorithm; Visual Basic sample for an icon generation through a model and a random initial range of solutions.
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27 Jan 2015Sujith Karivelil
This article will help you to create, update and delete events/ appointment in google calendar from your web application.
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11 Nov 2022Robert Gustafson
I've created an enhanced version of the Extended RichTextBox created by Razi Syed.
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7 Apr 2016Meshack Musundi
A WPF application for listing, searching for and launching installed apps
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10 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to create and use commands according to MVVM pattern
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18 Jan 2015JoelDz
This tip shows a control for Windows Forms called MySwitch. This is done in Visual Basic .NET 2013.
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3 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to create a UserControl to show QR Codes created with Google APIs
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27 Jan 2015syed shanu
USL/LSL Control Chart using .NET for Quality Control
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26 Jan 2015Lai Taiyu
Designing an identification card (ID Card) print program using Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 2000, 7 or later
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3 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to calculate the distance between two strings according to Levenshtein algorithm
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4 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to access, display, modify SQL Server data (tables, etc.) through Windows Forms controls and LINQ instructions, using DataSets and TableAdapters
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4 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
How to execute simple databindings on controls in WPF. One-way and two-way binding covered.
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1 Jan 2015Alexandros Pappas
This project tests the performance of inserting rows into a database through four different variations.
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8 Jan 2015Alexandros Pappas
This article proposes a way to check the correctness of setup projects.
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17 Jan 2015rolandomontero
MySQL Connector for Visual Basic, obtaining a data table
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22 Jan 2015Emiliano Musso
A quick method to convert a CSV file in XML

Current Participants

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Software Developer (Senior) Unisystems
Greece Greece
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer
Italy Italy
Working in IT since 2003 as Software Developer for Essetre Srl, a company in Northern Italy.
I was awarded in 2014, 2015 and 2016 with Microsoft MVP, for Visual Studio and Development Technologies expertise. My technology interests and main skills are in .NET Framework, Visual Basic, Visual C# and SQL Server, but i'm proficient in PHP and MySQL also.
Student JDS
Honduras Honduras
My name is Joel Diaz, and I am originally from Honduras. I am currently pursuing my final year of Engineering in Mechatronics.

Programming is my hobby and I spend much of my time reading articles about topics of interest related to this area.
Instructor / Trainer GJun Information Co.,Ltd.
Taiwan Taiwan
Dr. Lai Tai-Yu received the Ph.D. from National Taipei University of Technology in 2016. He is the co-author of 2 journal, 25 conference papers, 6 books, 9 articles in the codeproject.com, and 2 patents inventions. His research interests lie in the areas of digital image processing and AI. He is a lecturer.  

Dr Taiyu Lai. Stopień doktora, uzyskał w 2016 roku i objął stanowisko adiunkta na Wydziale. Ponadto jest autorem i współautorem: 2 publikacji artykułu w czasopiśmie naukowym, 25 artykułów opublikowanych w materiałach konferencyjnych, 6 książek, 9 eseje w monografiach codeproject.com, i posiada dwa patenty. Zainteresowania naukowe: przetwarzania obrazów i AI. Jest wykładowcą.  

赖岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大学资讯工程博士学位,有2篇期刊、25篇会议论文、6本书籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2项专利。研究方向:数字图像处理和AI。现职是一位讲师。

賴岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大學資訊工程博士學位,有2篇期刊、25篇會議論文、6本書籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2項專利。研究方向:數位影像處理和AI。現職是一位講師。
Software Developer
Kenya Kenya
Experienced C# software developer with a passion for WPF.

Awards,
  • CodeProject MVP 2013
  • CodeProject MVP 2012
  • CodeProject MVP 2021
United States United States
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United States United States
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Software Developer (Senior) Vanilla Networks Pvt.Ltd
India India
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Team Leader
India India
Microsoft MVP | Code Project MVP | CSharp Corner MVP | Author | Blogger and always happy to Share what he knows to others. MyBlog

My Interview on Microsoft TechNet Wiki Ninja Link

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. 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.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
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  6. Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
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  11. In the event of a tie,  the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
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