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WPF 3D FlipPanel

by Fredrik Bornander

WPF Implementation of the spinning panel frequently used on the iPhone

AJAX-enabled Name Selector User Control

by Steve Krile

Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.

Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB

by Graeme_Grant

A Modern Toggle Switch - From mock concept to a full custom WPF control that you can plug into your own apps

Create and Send An Email Reply in C# / VB.NET

by JosipK, Marko Kozlina

C# and VB.NET console applications that demonstrate how to create and send an email reply with IMAP and SMTP protocols in .NET Framework

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Redesigned German Cards Game "Schafkopf"

by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using my Schafkopf_OOP VB.NET project.

Collapsible-Panels

by CODING_MLD

Expanding and collapsible panels implemented in VB.NET

SET Network Parameters with IPCONFIG and Text Files

by Allegra Angelo

Save, read and text recognition of network parameters

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 4) - Property-Manipulation with the PropertyDescriptor

by Ralf Meier

This article revolutionizes Shelly device management, providing an updated, efficient, and feature-rich solution for both beginners and advanced users." You will discover new ShellyCom2 features, such as property manipulation using PropertyDescriptor, and a set of valuable helpers and commands.

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Visual Basic

BASIC is Not Dead. Time to Erase the Myths about Basic.

15 Nov 2022 by Chris Boss

More about BASIC and what can be accomplished with the language

Reflection 101: An Introduction to Reflection in .NET

4 Jun 2011 by MBigglesworth79

An introduction to Reflection in .NET as well as some examples of how it can be used.

Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

4 Sep 2019 by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

Mutliline String Literals in VB.NET

30 Nov 2011 by Cyborgx37

How to have mutliline string literals in VB.NET.

Classic Visual Basic’s end marked a key change in software development

3 Apr 2013 by Chris Boss

The key to future versions of BASIC is to first view them as a professional language.

Serialization 101 - Part I: Binary Serialization

26 Sep 2011 by MBigglesworth79

A good primer for getting into serialization

WinForms Button

15 Jan 2012 by VIBlend

WinForms Button

Manage TFS Test Suites in Microsoft Test Manager C# VB.NET Code

21 Feb 2015 by Anton Angelov

Manage TFS Test Suites in Microsoft Test Manager C# VB.NET code

Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code

22 Feb 2015 by Anton Angelov

Code examples how to connect to TFS Team Project using C# and VB .NET. The post - Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code appeared first on Automate The Planet.

Programming Nostalgia: revisiting Mike Wiering’s Mario Game Written in Pascal

11 May 2023 by ToughDev

Revisiting Mario Game Written in Pascal

Generating Captcha images – ASP.NET MVC

4 Dec 2011 by Buaziz

In this article, we will define our implementation to handle Captcha images.

What are the SQL Server Management Objects

29 Jul 2010 by User 6619207

About SQL Server Management Objects

Delegates 101 - Part IV: Event Handling

7 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Event Handling

Partial Validation with Data Annotations in ASP.NET MVC

2 Dec 2011 by MBigglesworth79

This article is a follow-up to Andy West's blog post about performing a conditional validation when using .NET data annotations on a model in MVC.

WinForms Grid with Merged Cells

15 Jan 2012 by VIBlend

In this post, we will show you how to use the cells merge functionality of VIBlend DataGridView for WinForms.

SSRS Production Deployment: Part 3

6 May 2013 by Ivan Krivyakov

Deploying reports

Data Access Using Dynamics - Part I: The DynamicDataReader

25 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

The DynamicDataReader provides a means of retrieving data from a database in a way that involves less code and increases code readability.

Using the Service Controller in VB.NET

15 Nov 2012 by ledtech3

How to use the service controller in VB.NET

Tool: Code Metrics Viewer Extension for Visual Studio

22 Aug 2012 by Bryan O'Connell

Keep an eye on your team's software code metrics

Boost UI Rendering with Client Side Templating

7 Apr 2013 by Taiseer Joudeh

Boost UI rendering with client side templating.

Levenshtein Edit Distance

14 Nov 2015 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Recently, I was working on a tools for finding the imperfect palindrome sequence site in the bacterial genome, a palindrome sequence is a kind of structure which can form the hairpin struct on its transcript RNA molecule sequence or just some restriction enzyme cutting site which theirs structu

Adding a Verb to the dotnet CLI Tooling

3 Oct 2016 by matt warren

How to add a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling

Beginners guide to Angular CLI

11 Mar 2018 by santosh.yadav198613

Hello Everyone in this blog we will learn how to utilize the functionalities provided by Angular CLI to create a new Angular 5 App. And we will see different commands available in Angular CLI to increase our productivity.

Identifying Used and Unused Resources in a Visual Studio’s Project Resources.resx File

8 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to identify used and unused resources in VS Project Resources.resx file

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

21 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

8 Feb 2010 by byapparov

Evaluator for multiple VB expressions based on Eval3 library

Playing With LINQ: Getting Interface Property Implementations

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Getting Interface Property Implementations

How to Import Your Exisiting Contacts from Your Old Nokia Phone to Your New iPhone?

15 Jul 2010 by mrt_doulaty

You may want to import your existing contacts from your old Nokia (or in general VCard format) to your new iPhone. You need to follow some simple steps...

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

5 Dec 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

Sorting Worksheets in Excel using VBA

13 Jan 2011 by Steven Leonard Powell

Sorting worksheets in Excel using VBA

Get File name from URL Path - ASP Classic

12 Feb 2011 by ozkary

Get File name from URL Path - ASP Classic

Using Forms with Queries in Access

18 Mar 2011 by Steve L. Powell

Using Forms with Queries in Access

Calling Web Services from JavaScript

13 Apr 2011 by Morris Bahrami

How to call Web Services from JavaScript

Getting Hardware and Software Details of the Computers in your Domain

17 Apr 2011 by Morris Bahrami

How to get hardware and software details of the computers in your domain

Data Access using Dynamics - Part II: The DynamicDataSet

31 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

How to create a dynamic version of another staple component of the ADO.NET framework, namely the DataSet.

Converting VBScript to VB.NET

22 Nov 2011 by ledtech3

How to convert VB Script to VB.NET

Serialization 101 - Part III: XML Serialization

1 Dec 2011 by MBigglesworth79

XML Serialization

SID in an array of bytes to string version in VB.NET

9 Apr 2017 by ledtech3

This is a program that converts SIDs with 1 – 5 sub authorities from an array of bytes to string format.

Extending the Behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for Activity-based Authorization

25 Jan 2013 by Stacy Vicknair

Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization

ACLs for File and Directory Access

19 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

Sometimes you have a need to modify file or directory permissions (e.g., limiting issues with UAC).

PSC: Basic Script

23 Mar 2013 by Kristofer Kallsbo

Still not sure what the final script will do but I have to detect how the script is started and act accordingly.

Interfaces to Add Semantic Meaning

5 Dec 2019 by Duncan Edwards Jones

Interfaces to add semantic meaning

How to Create Visual Basic Context Menu Strip

17 Mar 2014 by Sharjeel_Ahmad

How to create Visual Basic Context Menu Strip

Just Attach

17 Sep 2009 by S. Senthil Kumar

JustAttach – a macro that finds out the output file path of the startup project of your solution and automatically attaches to it.

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

30 Oct 2009 by User 271009

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

WPF Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider

17 Nov 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

WPF Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider

Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events

17 Nov 2009 by User 271009

A long time feature request has been added to Visual Basic 10 that ships with Visual Studio 2010; decorating an Event as NonSerialized.

Assembly Spy; A Reflection Sample

30 Mar 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

A .NET reflection sample written in VB.NET

Generic Chain of Responsibility Builder

9 May 2010 by User 6619207

The article describes how you can implement the chain of responsility pattern with a generic chain builder method in .net

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

16 Sep 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a Predefined Number

21 Oct 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number

TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number

5 Dec 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number

A Macro to Create a C++ Implementation from a Header Declaration

19 Dec 2011 by WebBiscuit

From the header declaration, this macro opens up the .cpp file and creates the skeleton so you can begin to add the implementation. This makes adding functions a breeze, so now there really is no excuse for having horribly unfactored code.

Windows Mobile: CF how to catch F1 and F2 in WEH

24 Sep 2012 by hjgode

How to catch F1 and F2 in WEH.

Liskov Substitution Principle and the Oft Forgot Third Wheel

28 Jan 2013 by Stacy Vicknair

Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a principle of object oriented programming that many might be familiar with from the SOLID principles mnemonic from Uncle Bob Martin.

LINQ with Multiple Child Objects

19 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

Pulling XML data into your objects

How to Display a Control's Hierarchy as a String

26 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

Here's how to display a control's hierarchy as a string

PSC: Move Share

25 Mar 2013 by Kristofer Kallsbo

PSC: Move share

ComboBox DataSource Binding in Visual Basic

17 Mar 2014 by Sharjeel_Ahmad

ComboBox DataSource Binding in Visual Basic

Handling Casing Issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic

18 Apr 2014 by Rion Williams

How to handle casing issues through extension methods in C# and Visual Basic

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

16 May 2018 by Dave Kerr

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

Converting an Outlook Form Template (OFT) to a .NET Windows Form in Visual Studio

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to convert OFT to .NET Windows Form in VS

Delegates 101 - Part II: Anonymous Methods and Lambdas

15 Jun 2011 by MBigglesworth79

How to use anonymous methods and lambdas to make our code more terse by reducing the amount of code we need to write.

Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File??

21 Nov 2015 by MBigglesworth79

Yet another way to write a CSV file

No default IDs here. Move along.

14 Sep 2011 by Brady Kelly

No default IDs here. Move along.

Visual Studio: Use Conditional Compilation to Control Runtime Settings for Different Deployment Scenarios

20 Sep 2013 by John Atten

Use conditional compilation to control runtime settings for different deployment scenarios.

Creating a Simple Twitter Client Application

21 May 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

VB.NET and C# + twitto; a simple desktop Twitter

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

12 Jan 2010 by Martin 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.

Take Advantage of Reference Paths in Visual Studio and Debug Locally Referenced Libraries

20 Apr 2011 by Sebastian Solnica

This article explains how to use the Reference Paths project property to debug open-source libraries referenced by the project.

A Look at Dapper.NET

16 Jun 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Dapper.NET is an Open-Source, lightweight ORM that is simple to use, and is compatible with any database which implements a provider for .NET.

Resizing an Image On-The-Fly using .NET

5 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

How to resize an Image On-The-Fly using .NET

image-processing

Unit Testing 101: Getting Started with NUnit

17 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

This article is primarily for those of you who are new to unit testing and is intended as a basic introduction to unit testing and test-driven development; as well as how to write basic tests using the NUnit framework.

Adding Social Buttons, Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, to ASP.NET MVC

4 Dec 2011 by Buaziz

An easy way to add social buttons to your MVC site

Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism

27 Dec 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.5 Released – New Events Mechanism

Gotcha #1161: Using Named Parameters with Oracle ODP.NET

8 Jun 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Using Named Parameters with Oracle ODP.NET

Accessing ASP.NET Session Data Using Dynamics

5 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Access session information via a dynamic object where we use a dynamic property to specify the name of the session item

C++/CLI Cheat Sheet

27 Jan 2012 by Sebastian Krysmanski

Table of Contents [hide] 1 Introduction 2 Handles 3 CLR types 3.1 Native and managed types on stack and heap 3.2 Handles and Value Types (.Net Structs and Enums) 3.3 Casting Handles 3.4 Passing handles 3.5 Mixing native and managed types 3.6 Type Of 4 Modifiers: visibility 5 Modifiers: abstract

Delegates 101 - Part I: What is a Delegate?

15 Jun 2011 by MBigglesworth79

What is a Delegate?

How to Programmatically Change Network and Computer Settings using VB.NET, netsh, and other Windows Command line programs - Part I - Adding Multiple Addresses using netsh

3 Dec 2013 by jeffery c

This article will focus on network settings that can be changed using VB.NET and sometimes relies on command line programs included with Windows.

Rounding Floating-Point Numbers Up or Down in .NET

18 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Rounding Floating-Point Numbers Up or Down in .NET

Google Static Maps HTML Helper

12 Oct 2011 by Buaziz

creating an MVC HTML Helper for Google Maps

Compress & Zip Files using DotNetZip

23 Jul 2018 by Passion4Code

How to compress and zip files using DotNetZip

What is the Difference between “==” and .Equals()?

26 Apr 2013 by Shivprasad koirala

In this article, we will discuss what is the difference between "==" vs ".Equals in C#".

Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects

14 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps

Solution: ExecuteNonQuery() Always Returning -1 When Calling a Stored Procedure

19 Dec 2012 by Nitesh Kejriwal

A solution for ExecuteNonQuery() always returning -1 when calling a Stored Procedure

Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.NET, or C++/CLI

23 Jun 2013 by Pragmateek

Interfacing VBA and .NET is a relatively straightforward process.

Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge

14 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge.

The Challenges of Building a Visual Designer

8 Nov 2015 by Chris Boss

The challenges of building a Visual Designer

What’s new in Blend for Visual Studio 2013

4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke

What is new in Blend for Visual Studio 2013

Change .config File at Runtime C# Code

22 Feb 2015 by Anton Angelov

How to change .config file at runtime (C# VB.NET code)

Sending Mails in .NET Framework

28 Dec 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to send mail messages from your C# application via SMTP.

Simple Class for Code Profiling

4 Jan 2018 by Alejandro Gaio

Here is a simple class for code profiling

Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File?

16 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File?

ASP.NET 4.0 New Features

9 Jul 2011 by Dinesh K Mandal

ASP.NET 4.0 new features

Introducing RSS; Developing a Simple RSS Reader

4 Apr 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

A brief discussion of RSS. Incorporating RSS into a simple RSS bar control written in VB.NET.

Visual Basic Progress Bar control

17 Mar 2014 by Sharjeel_Ahmad

Visual Basic Progress Bar control

Accessing MVC Routing URLs in JavaScript

5 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Using the UrlHelper class to query the routing engine and generate the correct URLs for us

Programmatically Enumerating, Attaching, and Detaching SQL Server Databases

2 Jun 2010 by Mohammad Elsheimy

Programmatically Enumerating, Attaching, and Detaching SQL Server Databases via SQL statements and stored procedures

Constructor .NET

11 Oct 2013 by SonuKSingh

Types of constructors available in C#

A Simple Wrapper for log4net

26 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

A wrapper for log4net which allows logging operations to be accomplished with a single line of code.