This user has contributed 98 articles, 164 code samples and posted 2859 messages in our discussion forums.
Blogs
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This is the blog of Dan Thomas, Web Developer, Flash Developer, Business Owner, Sunny Bournemouth Resident 
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A blog from the SharePoint Development Team
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The feed from the vbCity Community Blog web site.
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The blog of a key architect of ASP.NET
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Random thoughts from a UK Student and .NET developer
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The blog of a VB MVP, Cory Smith
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Briksoftware develops applications for Mac OS X. In our blog you will find free snippets of code, tech talks and opinions.
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Articles & Tutorials
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Performance tips and hard-core tricks for ASP.NET AJAX, not for the faint hearted, from Omar Al Zabir, CTO of PageFlakes. .
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This series covers a wide variety of topics including new user interface features, kernel features, networking features, management features, and more. Most of the samples will be in ATL, but where appropriate I will illustrate how the new Windows Vista functionality can be used by managed code..
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You can't actually print a document from javascript, but you can open the print dialog to the user..
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Sometimes we want to offer the visitors a preview of the image a link points to. Depending on PHP and GD availability, this script will offer a preview link showing or creating a thumbnail of the linked image. The visitors can see if the link is worth opening without leaving the current page..
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Mike takes an in-depth look at getting to grips with building ASP.NET AJAX controls. Learn about the framework of getting your JavaScript code..
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Takes a look at how tree structures can be usefully stored in a relational database such as SQL Server, and how to implement web directory-like features such as breadcrumbs..
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A technical Interview with Matthew Reynolds, author of Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS.
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So you want fancy, sexy streaming media in the UI? And you want cool animations, fancy glow-in-the-dark buttons and decent, scalable vector graphics? And you want to run your application in a browser on both Windows and Mac OSX? If you’re already reaching for your copy of How to Wow with Flash, stop. There’s a new kid muscling onto the somewhat crowded Rich Interactive Application (RIA) block, and it’s coming from Microsoft..
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In the second part in this series on OpenXML, Tim Anderson explains how the new Packaging API helps you work with Office Open XML documents..
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Is Silverlight the way to make your browser based applications as rich as a desktop application? Dave Wheeler thinks so and put the case for sophistication in Silverlight. In this second article, we look at events and move rapidly on to animation and other powerful presentation effects..
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Most of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection – how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs? .
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A very common requirement in an information system is to have a function (or several functions) where the users are able to search the data by selecting freely among many possible criterias. In this text I will look at various techniques to solve this problem..
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Some great tips and tricks using CSS - from applying more than one CSS class to an element, specifying a different style sheet to be used for printing, image replacement techniques and more..
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Completely new to Visual Basic? Overwhelmed with the confusing instructions? Read this tutorial and get a head start - learn what VB is, what you can do with it, how much it costs, and how to get star.
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In this first article of an SWT and JFace series, find out how to create a simple Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) application using Java™, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. Also learn how to create simple SWT GUIs using basic controls and layouts..
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Explore the source of the common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. This third part in a series describes how the different naming conventions between J2EE technology and .NET can cause difficulty in Web services interoperability..
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Till now we were talking about non-mainstream languages to use Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Learn what exactly AOP is, and how you can go about getting this functionality in C#..
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Just as XML itself has evolved, so the XML related classes in .NET Framework 2.0 have changed. Alex Homer finds out what's different..
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op..
Code Samples
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A simple code snippet that deep-copies an object by serializing and de-serializing using the BinaryFormatter.
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If you're targeting Windows Vista and your application requires administrator priviledges (such as accessing the program files directory), then it will fail unless you include a manifest so Windows knows. Here's how..
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Get the current line, column, number of lines and first visible line in a RichTextBox.
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A simple helper class to make generating an RSS feed a piece of cake - its the one we use on Developer Fusion too!.
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Demonstrates how to capture a screen shot of the entire desktop, or a particular window in C# or VB.NET..
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If anyone's ever tried to move domain, you'll know its a pain. One way to make things a little easier is to provide an automatic 301 redirect from your old domain to your new one - this marks the new destination as a permanent change, and will generally be picked up by search engines. This shows you how to do this redirect with IIS, passing the full path and query strings along too..
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Here's now to randomly sort records in SQL Server 2000 - so you can potentially select say 10 random items from a table..
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Ever wondered why DateTime.Parse doesn't recognise non-US date format? Here's how to get it to!.
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How to calculate someone's age from their birth date..
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An example of how to make a screen saver in VB.
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Create a screen that prevents users from using the PC, until they enter a valid password.
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How to add your applications icon to the system tray.
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Add scrolling text to your application.
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Examples of a connectionless recordset.
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How to create an animated moon effect!.
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Shows you how to add another item to an application's system menu.
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Shows you how to start moving a form if it hasn't got a title bar.
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Find out how to create a custom shaped form!.
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This code shows you how to launch a program and then wait until it is closed..
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How to find out the registered owner, organisation, product id etc of windows from the registry.