Tutorials & Articles
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Registry In's and Out's Using C#
by Michael BrightA complete introduction to accessing the Windows registry from .NET
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Making skinned custom controls
by Thomas JohansenThis article will show you how you can easily make your custom controls skinned by deriving from a new control class that we will call SkinControl.
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Creating a Newsletter system
by Pablo VarandoThis tutorials will show you how to create a fully automated system to allow visitors to subscribe and unsubscribe to your newsletter, and for administrators to send out a newsletter to all the registered users.
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File Time Date Stamps
by Dmitry ApukhtinLearn about the Time & Date stamps of files in a new tutorial by Chris Velazque.
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Understanding Open XML
by Matt NicholsonMatt Nicholson introduces a range of articles covering the new Ecma Office Open XML standard, as supported by 2007 Microsoft Office system. Find out how Open XML works, how to use it and what you can do with it.
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A Simple Introduction to .NET Remoting
by Lee Gunn - .NET C# Scotland.NET remoting allows the development of distriubuted applications. It allows applications to use objects contained in other processes. We wil quickly look at the basics on how to set up a simple .NET remoting system.
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API Programming Series #3 - Bring a Window to Top
by Sreejath S. WarrierThe API programming series is a set of articles dealing with a common theme: API programming in Visual Basic. Though there are no hard and fast rules regarding the content of these articles, generally one article can be expected to contain explanation of one or more API calls with generously commented code snippets. Depending on the subject, these code samples may expand to become a full-fledged application. In this article we see how to bring a window to top.
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Moving from Tables to CSS
by Roan LaveryLearn how to migrate your existing sites from tables to CSS, and how to start including more CSS based design into your workflow. Why? Because I still think many people find learning to build CSS layout sites from scratch difficult. There's a steep learning curve associated with CSS design, much more so than tables, and getting consistent results across different browsers is tricky, even for the more experienced.
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Service-Oriented Architecture: What Is It and How Can It Help Your Business?
by Charlie FinkService-oriented architecture is a hot topic in today’s business world, and it can provide many key benefits. It is important to look at service-oriented architectures from both a real-world perspective as well as a technical perspective to gain a complete understanding of this new concept. Read more about service-oriented architecture and learn how it can add functionality to Web-based applications and save developers time over the long term.
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Printing Reports in .NET
by Mike MayerLearn how to print reports from C# and other .NET languages using the open source library presented here. Features include Printing DataTables, printing paragraphs of text using style classes, customizable page headers and footers, boxes, lines, graphics and much more.
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Introduction to custom server controls
by Thomas JohansenIn this article I'll guide you through the creation of a guestbook, as an introduction to developing custom server controls
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Inside Open XML
by Matt NicholsonAs Matt Nicholson explains, Open XML is not just a new file format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, but an open standard capable of expressing any Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.
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Skinning (BitBlt Introduction)
by Marc PritchardWant to make your app look as good as Media Player or Winamp? This tutoral hopes to get you going to a fully skinned killer app!
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Reading, Storing and Transforming XML Data in .NET
by Dimitrios MarkatosThis article illustrates a mixture of common .NET methods for formatting and presenting in a readable fashion any XML document you may encounter. The latest hype with XML Web Services and even the .NET Framework itself relies on XML as its backbone, therefore this is no light matter.
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Using OLE Automation in VB
by S.S. AhmedThe article demonstrates how to use OLE automation in VB. We can launch word, create a new document and let the user save it all from our VB program!
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Introduction to the IL assembly language
by Filip BulovicA modest introduction to IL assembly language
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Printing in VB
by James CrowleyLearn how to print graphics, text and RTF in Visual Basic, as well as printer & graphics options
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SQL Commands
by James CrowleyIf you want to use databases, in VB, Access, ASP or anything else, at some stage you will need to learn SQL. This tutorial shows you how to use this powerful and universal language.
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For...Next statement
by James CrowleyHow to use the For...Next statement to loop through code a certain number of times.
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The Beauty of Closures
by Jon SkeetClosures are often described in terms of functional languages, but Jon introduces the concept of closures in a world of C# and Java. Learn how to use them and why.