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Listing and Killing Processes with Visual Basic

Scott Lysle — 5/6/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article provides a simple example of how to use the System.Diagnostics.Process library to display a list of running processes, and to select and kill processes by their process name and ID.

VB Object Instantiation: Part I. Constructors

Matthew Cochran — 5/6/2008 12:00:00 AM

There are many ways to approach object instantiation. In this article we'll cover a few of the patterns used to instantiate objects.

Web Services

Mahesh Chand — 5/5/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article tells you about Web Services, which provide a way to run a service on the web and access its methods using standard protocols, including SOAP, XML, WSDL and HTTP.

Ajax Toolkit: AlwaysVisibleControlExtender

Raj Beniwal — 5/2/2008 12:33:43 AM

Through this article you will learn: How to use AlwaysVisibleControlExtender control in ASP.NET 2.0.

Serialization in VB and .net

Nimesh Patel — 5/2/2008 12:00:00 AM

Serialization is a process through which an object's state is transformed into some serial data format, such as XML or binary format.

Working with delegates: part I

Santhosh Veeraraman LnT — 5/1/2008 2:07:58 AM

This article gives you complete information about the delegates.

Word automation using VB

Amrish Deep Ravidas — 5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article is tells you about Word automation through VB, which is all about programmatically generating the Word Document using VB code.

Web based colour tool for .NET

Rob — 4/30/2008 2:56:40 AM

This article gives you information about the System.Drawing namespace, which is very useful while working with colours in your .net projects.

Accessing themes/skinid's programmatically using asp.net 2.0

Munir Shaikh — 4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article tells you about how you can access Theme & Skins & use CSS with respect to each theme.

Using pointers in VB

Phil Curnow — 4/29/2008 6:45:00 AM

This article explains the concept of pointers and how you implement them in VB should you need to.

Callback operations in windows communication foundation.

John Charles Olamendy — 4/29/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article is intended to illustrate how to implement callback operations in WCF through a common business scenario.

A guide to objectdatasource control

Rehaman SK — 4/29/2008 12:00:00 AM

One of the best new features of the forthcoming ASP.NET 2.0 will be the ObjectDataSource control. However, as I found out in my experimentation what seems like a simple control has some complex behaviours to master to get it working properly. If (like me) you have an existing data access layer you may have to make changes to be able to use ObjectDataSource.

Auto refresh data on page using AJAX

Raj Beniwal — 4/25/2008 3:08:45 AM

In this article, I am going to explain how we can auto refresh data on an ASP.NET page after a certain interval using AJAX UpdatePanel and other controls.

Generate SQL statements with objects, attributes and reflection

Edmund H Smith — 4/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article tells you about how to create a sql command with sql statement and parameters dynamically.

How to: compress and decompress data

Muhammad Shakir — 4/24/2008 5:01:40 AM

This article shows that how we can compress and decompress our data.

OleHelper for microsoft access using asp.net 2.0

Munir Shaikh — 4/24/2008 1:27:01 AM

This Article is very much similar to the Microsoft Data Access Application Block, provides static methods in a "sealed class OleHelper" Where I have execute Dataset, Executenonquery & preparecommand.

Edit and encrypt web.config sections using .net 2.0

Mohammed Habeeb — 4/23/2008 4:14:56 AM

An article to illustrate editing and encrypting of sections of Web.Config file programmatically.

.Net and active directory

sathya — 4/23/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article outlines connecting to AD from .Net using ADO and System.DirectoryServices and also forming a unique ID from AD, moving entries from AD to a database and forming AD queries (also date formatting for AD).

Windows workflow foundation at a glance

John Charles Olamendy — 4/22/2008 2:54:11 AM

This article is intended to show information about Windows workflow foundation (WWF) of key part of Microsoft.NET 3.0 technologies suite. I will illustrate the concepts and the main components of this technology.

Accessing oracle database from Microsoft.NET 2.0 using oracle data provider for .NET

John Charles Olamendy — 4/22/2008 1:35:29 AM

This article is intended to show how to access the Oracle database using ADO.NET programming model and Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) that Oracle makes available.

Using the BackgroundWorker Component with composite user controls

Michael Livshitz — 4/21/2008 5:56:09 AM

In this article you will learn how to use the BackgroundWorker Component with user controls in VB.

XAML layout using the panel class

Doug Cook — 4/21/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article describes how to use the DockPanel element to achieve standard layouts in XAML. While there are a number of interface elements that can be used to position controls in your application, DockPanel provides one of the easiest mechanisms for defining scalable layouts.

Edit, Delete and Update in a DataGrid in Visual Web developer 2005

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 4/19/2008 12:00:00 AM

Here in this article I am going to show, how to edit, Delete and update data in a DataGrid.

Extracting the country from IP Address

John Jiang — 4/18/2008 1:27:52 AM

Sometimes we want to get visitors details who visit our web site or using client connecting our server. This sample descirbes how to translate IP address and query countrie and city from IP address.

Digital ink in windows vista using XAML

Doug Cook — 4/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

Digital ink used to only be available as part of the Tablet PC SDK. Now it is bundled with Windows Presentation Foundation. This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to integrate digital ink into your Avalon applications using XAML and VB.

Power pack drawing primitives for visual basic 2005

Scott Lysle — 4/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

This kit contains a collection of drawing primitive controls in the form of an oval, rectangle and a line shape.

Cross Tab or Pivot Data Table

Superna Parajuli — 4/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article gives you a VB.NET function that pivot the data table.

Easily find tags and values in a large xml document using XmlTextReader in VB

Liju Gopalan — 4/17/2008 12:35:54 AM

In this article you will learn how to find tags and values in a large xml document using XmlTextReader in VB.

Programming crystal report with ASP.Net 2.0 (VB) , Oracle

Abie Jose — 4/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

I searched a lot for this program. Atlast I tried these code and made it working.

Using a COM callable wrapper to launch a program from a hyperlink in the webbrowser control

Mike Gold — 4/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article describes how you can launch an application from a link inside the WebBrowser Control using a combination of javascript and an ActiveX Control created in VB.

Accessing the active directory from Microsoft .NET

John Charles Olamendy — 4/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article is intended to explain the architecture design of one application querying information to Microsoft Active Directory. Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service that provides the foundation for distributed networks built on Windows.

Put ASP.NET AJAX Timer and UpdatePanel with RssToolKit all in action

Muhammad Mosa — 4/16/2008 1:17:23 AM

This is simple article to show how ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Timer Control can be used in conjunction with UpdatePanel Control and RssToolKit to achieve real usage scenario. It also shows how to maintain ViewState across page postbacks.

INDEXER in VB

Senthurganesh Ramkumar — 4/16/2008 12:00:00 AM

Through this article you will learn the concept of INDEXER in VB.

WPF Database communication Adding new record to the database

Munir Shaikh — 4/16/2008 12:00:00 AM

WPF Database communication Adding new record to the database (XAML-MS-Access), I have a XAML form with FirstName, LastName, Email & Contact fields in it on click of submit button it will first check if the same email address is exists in the table else it will add new record I have made use of OleDbTransaction to perform add functionality.

How to display the records in DataGrid by using the Paging

Purushottam Rathore — 4/15/2008 1:13:58 AM

Through this article you will learn the concept of Paging in detail. You can display the large records in DataGrid by using Paging.

Calling Oracle stored procedures from Microsoft.NET

John Charles Olamendy — 4/15/2008 12:27:46 AM

This article is intended to illustrate how to illustrate how to call Oracle stored procedures and functions from Microsoft.NET through the Microsoft.NET Oracle provider and its object model residing in the namespace System.Data.OracleClient. I will cover several possible scenarios with advanced examples.

Introducing VbRoboCode: Robot battle simulator in Visual Basic

Scott — 4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

VbRoboCode is a robot battle simulator. It was inspired by the original Robocode. I wrote it so I could program in Visual Basic .NET instead of Java, and so I could make improvements to the API and function library. In my opinion, writing a bot in VbRoboCode requires less grunt work and is more fun. VbRoboCode comes with 11 sample bots that illustrate a wide variety of bot programming techniques, from simple to advanced. For full info, see http://scott-thomason.org/vbrobocode.

Creation of objects using Late-Binding technique

Santhosh Veeraraman LnT — 4/11/2008 1:04:29 AM

This article will explain how we can create objects in runtime, using late binding technique. Especially for a situation where you will come to know the class name only in runtime.

Interoperability between WCF and Oracle Application Server

John Charles Olamendy — 4/11/2008 12:29:48 AM

This article is to illustrate techniques and architecture that address the situation of one service running in WCF and a client consuming this service.

VB Image Viewer User Control with Preview Capability

Scott Lysle — 4/11/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article discusses the construction of an image viewer user control that may be used to display images from a directory containing a collection of image files. The control displays the previous and next images in the file along with the current image.

Data Binding in WPF Windows Application

Munir Shaikh — 4/11/2008 12:00:00 AM

In this article, I will discuss on how to bind Data with WPF windows application.

Visual Basic Scrollable Picturebox Custom Control

Scott Lysle — 4/11/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article discusses the construction of a custom control used to add a scrollable Picturebox control to a project.

Generic Data Layer - One time creation

Santhosh Veeraraman LnT — 4/10/2008 7:24:36 AM

This article will explain how to create a generic data layer that can be used with very less amount of coding. It is a known fact that, most of the time we create applications for Create , Select , Update, Delete. And every time, we end up with writing similar set of code for every execution of our stored procedures.

Searching in user profile properties

Amr Sayed — 4/10/2008 12:35:53 AM

Enabling search in membership profile properties using SQLSERVER2005 pluggable assembly created by C#.

Using Web User Controls in Repeaters and DataList

Mike Clark — 4/10/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article shows a simple example of how to encapsulate the complexity when using the ASP.Net Repeater and DataList control using a custom web user control.

Using LINQ in word 2007 with VSTO and VB 2008

Alessandro Del Sole — 4/10/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article shows an example of integrating LINQ and Visual Studio 2008 Tools for office to query Word documents properties, via Visual Basic code

Parsing Sentences and Building Text Statics in Visual Basic

Scott Lysle — 3/13/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article describes three approaches to parsing the sentences from a body of text.

XML Pathfinder - A Visual Basic Utility

Scott Lysle — 3/5/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article discusses the construction of a simple utility that may be used to locate and evaluate paths within an XML document, and to test queries against those paths.

Building a UNIX Time to Date Conversion Custom Control in VB

Scott Lysle — 3/4/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article addresses the construction of a custom control that will convert UNIX time into useful and readable dates for display in a Win Forms application.

Plot Latitude and Longitude Using the Free Geocoder Web Service in VB

Scott Lysle — 3/3/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article explains you the geocoding, which is defined as the process of estimating the latitude and longitude of a physical address.

RSS Feed Link Reader in Visual Basic

Scott Lysle — 3/3/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article discusses the construction of a simple application that may used to view RSS feeds from the desktop. The application allows the user to select a canned RSS feed or to key one.

Consuming the yahoo local search service in a visual basic win forms application

Scott Lysle — 1/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article will demonstrate an approach that may be used to consume yahoo local search service to return a list of business locations through the use of a zip code based search for a business name or product.

Geocoding a physical address using yahoo web services and visual basic

Scott Lysle — 1/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

This article will demonstrate the basics of submitting an address to the yahoo search service, recovering and displaying the geocoded result.

Transparent Borderless Forms in Visual Basic 2005

Scott Lysle — 10/29/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article describes an approach to display transparent forms in a Windows application.

Fade a Form in Visual Basic 2005

Scott Lysle — 10/29/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article describes a simple approach to fading out a form.

Customizing Datagrid Columns in Window Application

Sridhar Manoharan — 9/24/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article explains about how to customize the datagrid in window application using vb.net

Wizard concept in ASP.NET 2.0

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 9/14/2007 12:00:00 AM

Wizard is a new concept in ASP.NET 2.0. In any process like as User Registration, Online Quiz etc. we use many pages while in wizard we use wizard step.

How To Encode and Decode the Data

abdul wakeel — 9/14/2007 12:00:00 AM

This function is encode and decode the data.

Get the Way of Reflection using VB.NET

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 9/12/2007 3:30:31 AM

What is Reflection? How we use Reflection? What are the advantages of using Reflection? Get the way of saving memory by using Reflection.

Finding and Listing Processes in Visual Basic 2005

Scott Lysle — 9/12/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article shall describe a very simple approach to finding out information regarding the processes currently running on a machine.

Transaction in .NET

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 9/12/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article shows how we can achieve successful transaction maintaining consistency of records in the database.

Bulk Uploader in ASP.NET 2.0

Munir Shaikh — 9/10/2007 5:10:36 AM

The FileUpLoad control enables you to upload file to the server. It displays a text box control and a browse button that allow users to select a file to upload to the server.

Mapping with a GPS and VB.NET

Scott Lysle — 9/7/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article shall describe a very simple approach to working with a GPS device within the context of a Visual Basic 2005 application.

Getting Started with ReportViewer Control

Mahesh Chand — 9/6/2007 12:00:00 AM

I could not be happier when I saw the ReportViewer control as a part of Visual Studio 2005 controls. This article is an introduction to the ReportViewer control and how to write a simple report using the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2005.

Regional Settings for IIS

Prabakar Samiyappan — 9/2/2007 12:00:00 AM

Some time we may get problem in language or the numeric/date time format while you deployed an asp.net application or in the development itself.

Spherical Coordinates in VB.NET

Jack xu — 8/31/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article shows how to create sphere objects in a spherical coordinate system using VB and GDI+.

XML Data Binding using Data Templates in XAML

Doug Cook — 8/23/2007 5:14:03 AM

This article describes how to bind XML data using a data template in XAML. For ease of demonstration, the XML is defined as a resource within the XAML document.

Drawing Graphics Shapes in XAML

Mahesh Chand — 8/23/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article describes the drawing model in XAML and how to draw various objects such as line, rectangle, ellipse, and paths using XAML.

AdRotator Standard Control

Munir Shaikh — 8/22/2007 5:19:46 AM

This article will help programmer, developer to overcome the problem as: "The AdRotator adRtrCtrl/adRotator1 could not find the AdvertisementFile or the file is invalid".

ASP.NET HTML Postback Custom Control

Mike Knuckey — 8/22/2007 2:05:11 AM

Web form controls do not offer a complete solution to ASP.Net design and hence HTML tags are still required. Occasionally the need exists for a postback from an HTML tag, this article presents a Custom Control to address this requirement.

Boxing and Unboxing in VB.NET

Rojan George — 8/20/2007 4:42:01 AM

Details about the value type, reference type and details about the boxing and unboxing in VB.NET.

Regular Expression usage in .NET environment

vinod shalgar — 8/17/2007 5:25:30 AM

This article describes how to use regular expression in VB.NET.

Role Bases Access using VB.Net and XML

Subal Mishra — 8/16/2007 6:33:00 AM

Here I am trying to give a simple and configurable solution to implement Role Bases Access to your application using VB.Net and XML. Remember that this article intent is to provide Role Based Access and not Role Based Authorization.

.NET Remoting in a simple way

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article tells us what is remoting and how we can access remote object from one application to another application.

Introduction to XAML

Mahesh Chand — 8/14/2007 12:00:00 AM

XAML is a new descriptive programming language developed by Microsoft. The purpose of XAML to build user interfaces for next-generation Windows operating system. This article is a basic introduction to XAML.

ASP.Net 2.0 AJAX Extension 1.0 Application

Munir Shaikh — 8/13/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article will explain you in dept of creating Asp.Net Ajax-Enabled Application. I have explained with the help of product management example, where you can add new product, edit, update & cancel the product related activity.

XAML TextBox

Mahesh Chand — 8/13/2007 12:00:00 AM

XAML element represents the XAML TextBox control. This article discusses how to create a TextBox and set its various properties such as background and foreground colors, setting size and positions, fonts, wrapping, scrolling, and input validations.

Automate Send & Receive in Outlook

Sridhar Manoharan — 8/6/2007 12:00:00 AM

In this article we will take the privilege of outlook and make it to send & receive the mail automatically using VB.Net.

Arabization: Localization/Globalization in ASP.Net 2.0

Munir Shaikh — 8/3/2007 2:47:05 AM

In order to reach global market for any successful product, it is necessary that product support maximum regional languages. To have support different languages, it is required that while developing product, the concept of localization/globalization utilized.

Display Currency Values with a Custom Control

Scott Lysle — 8/2/2007 2:38:22 AM

This article shall describe the construction of a custom control used to display currency values. The control is intended for use in Win Forms application development.

Set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) using Digital Certificates

Anand Thakur — 8/1/2007 7:20:36 AM

This article explains how to secure an IIS Web application using SSL certificates.

Import data from Excel to Access using ADO.Net

Vandita Pandey — 7/31/2007 3:12:39 AM

Data interoperability with Microsoft office application has become easier with ADO.Net.

Error handler for web applications

Michael Livshitz — 7/31/2007 12:00:00 AM

In this article I will describe the error handler for ASP.NET 2.0 applications that is developed in a separate class library project. You can use it in any web application you want by adding a reference to the compiled dll assembly without writing many lines of code. The examples are written using VB.Net.

Directory & Files Lister using DirectoryInfo class in Asp.net 2.0

Munir Shaikh — 7/31/2007 12:00:00 AM

In this article we will see how we can display directories as well files in the browser based explorer, i have tryed to list directories and files even one can browse through inner directories on clicking particular folder, this can be enhanced to actual windows explorer.

Building data access class in VB.Net

Michael Livshitz — 7/30/2007 12:00:00 AM

In this article I will describe one of the ways to build data access layer component, using such feature of the VS 2005 as generic.

Detecting File Changes using FileSystemWatcher

Thiagarajan Alagarsamy — 7/26/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article is about detecting file changes like file renaming, file creation, deletion and changes in a folder using FileSystemWatcher class.

XML Driven Validation

Subal Mishra — 7/25/2007 3:00:15 AM

This article/tutorial tells us to develop a generic XML based Validation engine to be used in any Web application.

Notepad with advance features

Muhammad Shakir — 7/12/2007 12:00:00 AM

This is Notepad with advance features. It is combination of word process and Notepad.

Printing in Visual Basic 2005

Sabith Kp — 7/12/2007 12:00:00 AM

The code in this article shows how to print items from listview in my inventory software.

How to swap two rows of listview in Upward/Downward Direction

Muhammad Shakir — 7/11/2007 6:46:18 AM

How to swap two rows of listview in Upward/Downward Direction.

Create transaction using the DataAccess objects in ASP.NET

Sanjay David — 7/10/2007 1:15:17 AM

This article demonstrates the transaction using the DataAccess objects.

Get the Sum of a particular column values in a DataGrid

Raahul Kumar Saxena — 7/9/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article shows how we can get the total of a particular column of a DataGrid.

Assembly in .NET

Thiru Balaje — 7/5/2007 12:00:00 AM

The .NET assembly is the standard for components developed with the Microsoft.NET.

Cannot perform '>' operation on System.DateTime and System.Double

Mahesh Chand — 7/5/2007 12:00:00 AM

I get error "Cannot perform '>' operation on System.DateTime and System.Double" when applying a filter on DataView.

Using a Web User Control inside the GridView control

Michael Livshitz — 7/4/2007 7:08:06 AM

In this article I will share how a Web User Control can be used in the GridView control.

Writing Managed Triggers using VB.NET

Laishram Priyokumar — 7/4/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article is trying to explain the simple and required steps that are require starting the creation of Manage Triggers using VB.NET

Writing Managed Stored Procedures using VB.NET

Laishram Priyokumar — 7/3/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article is trying to explain the simple and required steps that are require starting the creation of Manage Stored Procedure using VB.NET and using them.

Creating a Task in Outlook

Sridhar Manoharan — 7/2/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article helps us to create a new task in Microsoft Outlook and send it through a mail.

What is new in VB 9.0?

Mahesh Chand — 6/29/2007 12:00:00 AM

Visual Basic version 9.0 is a part of next version of .NET Framework (3.0) and Visual Studio 2008. This article and attached document talks about new features of VB 9.0.

Visual Basic Spell Check Enabled Rich Text Box Custom Control

Scott Lysle — 6/19/2007 12:00:00 AM

This article describes a quick and simple approach to applying a spell check function to the rich text box control and bundling both features into a single custom control.