February 12, 2006
Three Recommended Articles from a Trio of MVPs
Solutions Architect MVP Beth Massi has posted an extremely useful VB sample illustrating how to speed up binary serialization of datasets in .NET 2.0. She describes her sample as follows:
"This extends the MSDN KB article 829740 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829740), which uses a surrogate object to quiclky serialize datasets as binary. This sample incorporates the new ADO.NET 2.0 DateTimeMode property setting on DateTime DataColumns so that date serialization can be controlled for each individual column. This surrogate class produces a smaller binary serialization package than the native dataset binary serialization."
Subsequently, in response to some user questions, she explained that "I should clarify that using the Surrogate class is faster when you have a long wire (i.e. Internet, WAN) and smaller DataSet sizes (i.e. generally less than a couple thousand rows depending on row size). Otherwise the native Binary serialization is faster. For more information please see http://bethmassi.blogspot.com/2006/01/binary-serialization-of-datasets-in.html." Thanks, Beth!
Info about Beth and her other GotDotNet code samples. http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/User/viewprofile.aspx?UserGuid=BCAE0C6E-4DD4-4DFF-8897-6735EA27B6A6
I'd also like to recommend ASP.NET MVP Steve Orr's excellent article describing his Firefox-compatible custom SearchBox control.
http://www.aspnetpro.com/NewsletterArticle/2006/02/asp200602so_l/asp200602so_l.asp
Source code download: http://www.aspnetpro.com/NewsletterArticle/DownloadFile.asp?ArticleID=asp200602so_l
Additional articles. http://steveorr.net/articles/AJAX.aspx
C# MVP Paulo Morgado has written a very good article on implementing HTTP compression in .NET 2.0 at http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/CompressibleHTTP20.asp
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February 08, 2006
Paul Thurrott's Interview with Jim Allchin
Good 1/27/06 interview with timeline info.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_jimallchin.asp
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February 02, 2006
WSS Guidance
Meaty, 360-page Web Service Security Guidance PDF documenting WSS patterns, scenarios, and implementation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/wssp.asp
This was discussed in today's (2/2/06) extremely useful Webcast, uhm Arcast, from the PnP group that focused on EntLib and Web services. http://www.microsoft.com/webcasts
Event Code: 1032289774
Event Name: MSDN Architecture Webcast: The patterns & practices 2006 Product Plan (Level 100)
Related:
* Paul Krill's article from SDForum about the complexity of implementing Web services. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/31/74964_HNwebservicesissues_1.html
* PnP site. http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/vs2005/
* Architecture bloggers.http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/Comm/TeamBlogs/default.aspx
* Don Smith's blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith/
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Implicit Interfaces
Ian Griffiths' thoughts about implicit interfaces, dynamic vs. static typing, and COM - in response to Martin Fowler's recent ImplicitInterfaceImplementation. http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2006/01/05/implicitinterfaces
Martin Fowler's post is at http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImplicitInterfaceImplementation.html
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January 19, 2006
SQL Server Express Edition User Instances
As part of the SQL 2005/VS 2005 launch, Microsoft's Roger Wolter wrote a great 11-page article on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition User Instances where he provides excellent advice aimed at Visual Studio developers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/sqlexpuserinst.asp?frame=true
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Paste As VB
In the February 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine, Scott Swigart discusses the his "Paste As Visual Basic" add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that converts C# to VB. As Scott explains, it's really an interface to existing Web-based code converters (Kamal Patel's C# to Visual Basic code converter Web service at ConvertCSharp2VB, and Carlos Aguilar Mares's AJAX-powered code converter at CodeTranslator), but Scott's integrating solution provides and elegant form-based interface and also shows you how to create add-ins. Very cool.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/02/PasteAs/default.aspx
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January 13, 2006
Speech-Enabled Apps
Richard Newcombe and John Mueller have each written recent articles on using voice within your VB apps. You can read Richard's ("VB and Voice Recognition," which focuses on Microsoft's Speech SDK) at http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_misc/plugins/article.php/c11019/ and John's ("Building Speech-Enabled Apps with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8" which focuses on the Scansoft - now called Nuance - Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK) at http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,1901742,00.asp
Related Resources
Microsoft Speech Server (MSS) 4.0 R2
* Product home page. http://www.microsoft.com/speech/default.mspx
* MSDN home page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/netspeechanchor.asp?frame=true
* MSS newsletter subscription form. http://www.msspeechproducts.com/speech/NewsletterSubscribe.asp
* MSS FAQs. http://www.microsoft.com/speech/techinfo/faq/speechserver.mspx
* MSS Tips. http://www.microsoft.com/speech/techinfo/tipsandtricks/default.mspx
Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) 1.1 (5/05)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1194ED95-7A23-46A0-BBBC-06EF009C053A&displaylang=en
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 SDK (Dragon also has an interesting, but expensive, audio mining product)
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/preferred/
http://www.nuance.com/audiomining/
Speech Technology Magazine
http://www.speechtechmag.com/
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December 21, 2005
Guidance Automation Toolkit
The Guidance Automation Toolkit isn't about Sarbox - it's extension to Visual Studio 2005 which allows architects to author rich, integrated user experiences for reusable assets including frameworks, components and patterns
Introduction to GAT
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/workshop/gat/intro.aspx
http://blogs.artinsoft.net/ocalvo/articles/1007.aspx
GAT Downloads (there are two parts)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/workshop/gat/download.aspx
GAT Hands-on Labs
http://guidanceautomation.net/cs/library/view.aspx?tab=3&id=40
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December 15, 2005
Recent MSDN Whitepapers by Ken Getz
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vb2005_overview.asp
Good 32-page article.
I can also recommend Ken's 9/05 17-page whitepaper for Visual C# programmers on programming Office aps with C#. He shows you how to use VSTO 2005 (don't groan) and points out the issues that make life a bit tougher for C# programmers than VBA or VB programmers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOCSharpDev.asp
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December 12, 2005
Free Reads from SAMS Publishing
* Sample chapter, "Planning a New SBS Installation," from Eriq Neale's soon-to-be-released book, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed. http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=433330
* Jesse Smith's article on "Getting and Displaying Images from SQL Server with C#." http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=377078
* Peter Aitken's article, "Exploring Excel's Functions: IF() Only!" http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=431107
* John Traenkenschuh's article, "Visual Basic 2005: Maximizing the VB Experience with New and Old Features." http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=422951
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December 05, 2005
Developing Mobile Apps
Roadmap for Mobile Web Development with ASP.NEThttp://www.asp.net/mobile/mobileroadmap.aspx?tabindex=6
* The ASP.NET 1.x mobile controls were introduced
* ASP.NET 1.1 applications will run on ASP.NET 2.0 with no modifications. Applications using the ASP.NET 1.1 mobile controls on the ASP.NET 2.0 will be able to take advantage of all ASP.NET 2.0 features except for master pages, web parts, and themes.
* Latest info on mobile Web dev at http://www.asp.net/mobile
* Mobile SDKs. http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/kits/default.aspx
* .NET Compact Framework Central. http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/understanding/netcf/
* Microsoft .NET Framework SDK version 2.0. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fe6f2099-b7b4-4f47-a244-c96d69c35dec&DisplayLang=en
* Microsoft .NET Framework SDK version 2.0 Samples Download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=adef80f9-1e44-4b94-be24-dff48f826ce6&DisplayLang=en
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December 01, 2005
James Avery's List of 10 Must-Have VS Add-Ons
His picks? TestDriven.NET, GhostDoc, Paster, CodeKeep, PInvoke.NET, VSWindowManager PowerToy, WSContractFirst, VSMouseBindings, CopySourceAsHTML, and Cache Visualizer.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/default.aspx
Related: http://www.topfreeware.net
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November 17, 2005
DataSets in VS 2005
Jackie Goldstein has written an excellent 20-page white paper on new DataSet features in VS 2005. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/newdtastvs05.asp
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November 14, 2005
Q&A With MVP Wei-Meng Lee
About a week ago, after noticing how many excellent articles Wei-Meng had contributed both to VBD and VS.NET Developer - all of which are available to VSD subscribers - I realized I wanted to get to know Wei-Meng better and sent him a list of questions, asking if he'd be willing to answer them. Here they are:
KW: Do you remember the very first program you wrote? What language was it in, and what computer did you use?
Wei-Meng: I wrote my first functional program when I was preparing for one of my “A”-Level exams [roughly the equivalent of AP exams in the U.S. -kw]. To satisfy the computing project, I wrote a program that allowed two people to play Go [a popular game -kw] on the computer. Back then, DOS still ruled the PC world and Windows was still in its infancy. I used Turbo Pascal [remember Philippe Kahn's low-cost brainchild? -kw] and created a GUI interface that supported pull-down menu interfaces. I still remember the UI aspect of the program - it was such as big deal at the time, and I spent a lot of time implementing the pull-down menu. Much of what is taken for granted today had to be implemented manually back then. I used an XT (8086) with a CGA monitor and didn't even have a hard disk – just two floppy disk drives. Hard to imagine for today’s kids, but those who went through that era will know that kind of feelings.
KW: How old are you and is your name Wei Meng Lee or Wei-Meng Lee? Are you married? Do you have any children or pets?
Wei-Meng: I'm 33, and, as far as my name goes, either one is fine. I used the “-“ to indicate that Wei-Meng is my first name and Lee is my last name (family name). Chinese often spell their family name first, but in order not to confuse readers from the West, I decided that it is more helpful to spell my family name last. I'm single, and as my work is taking up most of my time, I foresee I will remain status quo for the next two years.
KW: What languages do you speak?
Wei-Meng: I'm fluent in both English and Mandarin, and speak my dialect (Teochew, in case you or your readers are curious) at home. Singapore is a multiracial society, so most people here can speak a few different languages as well as dialects.
KW: What was your first PDA? How many do you have around home and the office and which ones are your current favorites? Do you remember the first program you ever wrote for a Pocket PC?
Wei-Meng: My first PDA was the Compaq iPaq 3630. I've "retired" a few others and currently use the i-Mate JasJar –a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone. I can’t remember my first Pocket PC program, but the first really functional one was written using the .NET Compact Framework.
KW: You're one of those rare developers who seem to be equally conversant with Windows and MacOS. Did you start out your programming career on PCs or Apple/Macs?
Wei-Meng: Actually I started my career as a Mac programmer. That was during the Mac OS 7/8 era, and I was programming in C using CodeWarrior’s tool. It was tough go back then, but the experience really helped me to understand more about programming and gave me a chance to dive deep using the C language.
KW: Where did you go to college/university and what was your degree in? If you could go back to university today -perhaps on a sabbatical - what kinds of courses would you take?
Wei-Meng: I went to a local university in Singapore – National University of Singapore (NUS). I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, but I've always been interested in psychology, so if I ever had the opportunity to go back to school, I'd probably pursue that interest. I'm always fascinated by how the human brain learns. And so this will be very useful to me as an author and trainer.
KW: What newspapers do you read daily and what are your favorite computer magazines?
We-Meng: I usually read CNN from the Web and subscribe to a few news feeds such as Google News. I read a number of computer magazines, such as MSDN Magazine, PC Magazine, Wired, CoDe Magazine. I was a faithful Byte reader, but it's no longer in print. I really enjoy Wired for its innovative content.
KW: When you have free time, what kinds of things do you like to do? Outdoors activities? Watch TV or movies? Listen to music?
Wei-Meng: When I have the free time, I usually spend time with my family and girlfriend. We like to go to the beach during the weekend to relax after a long week of work. I like military movies (such as "Black Hawk Down") and am a huge fan of military aircraft! I like to collect documentaries on aircraft and watch them when I'm stressed out and need some relaxation.
KW: What's your next book going to be about?
Wei-Meng: Oh….you'll know soon!
KW: When you "see" a computer program in your mind's eye, do you see a sort of flowchart, or do you see key snippets of code?
Wei-Meng: I see a flow chart first. I think of it as a series of steps to solve a problem. As long as I can get the series of steps correct, it will naturally be easy to translate it into code.
KW: Thanks, Wei-Meng!
Here are some additional resources
* Wei-Meng's website: http://weimenglee.blogspot.com
* Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart (September 2005)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbjumpstart/
Sample Chapter 4: Developing a Windows Application.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbjumpstart/chapter/ch04.pdf
Code download at http://examples.oreilly.com/vbjumpstart
ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook. (June 2005, 384 pages)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnetadn/
Ch 1: What's New? http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnetadn/chapter/ch01.pdf
Code: http://examples.oreilly.com/aspnetadn/
All About Your iPod Photo (42-page eBook, July 2005)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipodphoto/
.NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide (May 2004, 111 pages)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/
Sample Excerpt: Project A: Currency Converter. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/chapter/part3.pdf
Current VSD subscribers can also read Wei-Meng's archived Visual Studio .NET Developer and Visual Basic Developer articles online after logging in.
VS.NET Developer
What's New isn ASP.NET Whidbey? (Mar 04)
Infrared Programming Using the .NET Compact Framework, (Feb 04)
Creating Stealthy Software with the .NET Cryptography Classes (Dec 03)
Programming the .NET Compact Framework (Sep 03)
Integrating Real-World Web Services into Your Windows Application (Jun 03)
Sockets Programming in .NET, Wei-Meng Lee (Mar 03)
VBD
Application Settings in Windows Forms 2.0 (Oct 05)
Developing Windows Services with VB.NET (Dec 02)
Multi-threading Using VB.NET (July 02)
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Potentially Interesting Articles and Webcasts
- Good 39-minute Channel 9 interview with VB Core team member Jay Schmelzer. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=132160#132160
- Updated SQL Server 2005 Features Comparison Matrix. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx
- XQuery tutorial. http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_flwor.html
- Jim Wilson's excellent article on what's new in .NET Compact Framework 2.0. http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/whats_new_netcf2.asp. Related: Douglas Boling's also excellent tutorial on finding memory leaks in Pocket PC and Windows Mobile apps. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT5485766681.html
- How To: Perform a Security Code Review for Managed Code (.NET Framework 2.0). http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/paght000027.asp
- Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog. Examples: 1) Managed Debug Assistants (MDAs) are cool and 2) Why you sometimes get a bogus ContextSwitchDeadLock MDA under the debugger. http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/11/10/introducing_mdas.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/11/11/ContextSwitchDeadLock.aspx
- Don't Roundtrip Ciphertext Via a String Encoding. http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2005/11/10/491431.aspx
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November 03, 2005
Don't Leave These Archived Resources Go Untapped
Please excuse this long post, but it represents 1) the 53 archived issues of .NET Developer, Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and Visual Studio .NET Developer and 2) the 96 archived issues of Visual Basic Developer that all subscribers to Visual Studio Developer have access to.
Visual Studio .NET Developer (alias Hardcore Visual Studio .NET and .NET Developer) issue contents
(Inverse chronological order)
September 2005
VS 2005’s New Login Controls and the Web Site Administrator Too, Rick Dobson
Creating a Windows Service in VS 2005, Josef Finsel
September 2005 Downloads
August 2005
Database-Triggered Cache Invalidation in ASP.NET 2.0, Thiru Thangarathinam
Overcoming Inheritance Shortcomings with Plug-In Functions, Bill Hatfield
Creating ASP.NET Database Applications with Visual Studio 2005 and SqlDataSource, Vishnu Prasad H
August 2005 Downloads
July 20005
Roll Your Own Masked Edit Custom Control with ASP.NET, Pete Rodriguez
Create Rich Browser Experiences with XMLHttpRequest, Francis Shanahan
Securing SOA with SWE 2.0, Michael Stiefel
Skinning ASP.NET 2.0: Using Themes to Jazz Your UI, Thiru Thangarathinam
July 2005 Downloads
June 2005
Building a Simple Diagramming Tool with Windows Forms, Cecil Lew
Understanding the PropertyGrid Component, Jani Jarvinen
WS-Security and WSE 2.0, Michael Stiefel
June 2005 Downloads
May 2005
Diagnosing and Debugging with the System.Diagnostics Namespace, Jani Jarvinen
Service-Oriented Architecture, Part 2: Addressing and Transport with WSE 2.0, Michael Stiefel
Tip: Using Dynamic Properties in ASP.NET, Bill Hatfield
May 2005 Downloads
April 2005
Debugging and Deploying Windows Services, David Talbot
Looking at Stacks Through the Eyes of Forth, Pete Rodriguez
Guest Editorial: CV-Oriented Programming, David Talbot
Service-Oriented Architecture with 2.0, Michael Stiefel
April 2005 Downloads
March 2005
Using Iterators in C# 2.0, Joe Mayo
Build a Visual Studio Add-In to Evaluate XPath/XQuery Expressions, Francis Shanahan
Out on a Date with Delphi, Jani Jarvinen
March 2005 Downloads
February 2005
Exploring Microsoft's Express Suite 2005, Rick Dobson
Managing Automated E-mail Correspondence from Your Web Application, Todd Meister
Revealing Anonymous Methods in Visual C# 2005, Joe Mayo
February 2005 Downloads
January 2005
Using the SQL Server 2005 CLR from Visual Studio 2005, Rick Dobson
New Windows Forms Controls in .NET 2.0, Part 2, Matthew Macdonald
Introducing a New Data Grdi, Matthew Macdonald
January 2005 Downloads
December 2004
Programming Reporting Services with VB.NET, Rick Dobson
New Windows Forms Controls in .NET, Part 1, Matthew Macdonald
Using Generic Constraints in C# for .NET 2.0, Joe Mayo
December 2004 Downloads
November 2004
Discovering the New Visual Basic 2005 Language Enhancements, Matthew Macdonald
Creating Consistent Layouts Using ASP.NET Master Pages 2.0, Thiru Thangarathinam
Understandinig Generics in C# for Visual Studio 2005, Joe Mayo
Office 2003 Research Panes Revisited, Vishnu Prasad H
November 2004 Downloads
October 2004
Windows Server 2003 Makes COM+ Easier: Creating COM+-Aware Contexts, Thiru Thangarathinam
Tip: Preventing Cross-Site Scripting Attacks in ASP.NET 1.1, Sandra Gopikrishna
Customizing MSI Installation, Vishnu Prasad H
October 2004 Downloads
September 2004
Coding for COncurrency in ADO.NET, Rick Dobson
Evaluating Mathematical Formulae with .NET, Francis Shanahan
InfoPath 2003: Programming Smart Forms,, Vishnu Prasad H
September 2004 Downloads
August 2004
The New ASP.NET 2.0 Portal Framework and WebParts, Brian Boyce
Getting Started with Reporting Services, Rick Dobson
Visual Basic 2005 Language Enhancements, Matthew Macdonald
August 2004 Downloads
July 2004
Exploring Longhorn's Avalon Presentation Layer with XAML, Francis Shanahan
Using DataReaders to Increase Speed and Reduce Memory, Rick Dobson
Office 2003 Integration: Research Panes, Vishnu Prasad H
July 2004 Downloads
June 2004
Extensible Applications: New Features without Recompiling, Joe Wirtley
Tip: Debugging Classic ASP Projects in VS.NET 2003, Sandra Gopikrishna
Tip: Logging HTTP Headers, Sandra Gopikrishna
Tip: Hashing Your Passwords, Sandra Gopikrishna
Build a Blog with RSS, Jani Jarvinen
June 2004 Downloads
Hardcore Visual Studio .NET
May 2004
The Quickest, Easiest Way to Store Data, Bill Hatfield
Code Generation with CodeSmith, Brian Boyce
Mapping Objects to Database Records with the ADO.NET Typed DataSet, Silan Liu
May 2004 Downloads
April 2004
ADO.NET: A Command Performance, Rick Dobson
Monitoring Application Health with WML and .NET, Francis Shanahan
Creating a Distributed .NET Apllication Using Enterprise Templates, Part 4, Microsoft Research has published the first details of a wholly new operating system under development called Singularity, designed new from the ground up, built on a new language and designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance. Thiru Thangarathinam
April 2004 Downloads
March 2004
What's New isn ASP.NET Whidbey? Wei-Meng Lee
Creating a Distributed .NET Apllication Using Enterprise Templates, Part 3, Thiru Thangarathinam
Using DOM Interop to Integrate WebSphere MQ with .NET, Francis Shanahan
Creating and Asynchronous Order Processing Application, Thiru Thangarathinam
March 2004 Downloads
February 2004
Building Web Services with Borland C#Builder, Bob Swart
Infrared Programming Using the .NET Compact Framework, Wei-Meng Lee
Creating a Distributed .NET Apllication Using Enterprise Templates, Part 2, Thiru Thangarathinam
February 2004 Downloads
January 2004
Creating a Windows Service to Leverage Advanced .NET Components, Leon Zhang
Creating a Distributed .NET Apllication Using Enterprise Templates, Thiru Thangarathinam
Consuming XML Web Services with the .NET Compact Framework, Sreedhar Koganti
Book Review: MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit, Jason Mauss
January 2004 Downloads
December 2003
Creating Stealthy Software with the .NET Cryptography Classes, Wei-Meng Lee
MSIL for the Rest of Us, Part 2, Bill Hatfield
Product Review: FMS Total .NET Analyzer, Danny Lesandrini
Exception Handling in ASP.NET, Part 2, Haroon Fasheed Malik
Tip: Password Fields and Server Round-Trips: A Bad Combination, John Harcourt
December 2003 Downloads
November 2003
The Microsoft Intermediate Language, Not Just for TurboGeeks, Bill Hatfield
Windows Server 2003 Authorization Manager and .NET, Nick Wienholt
Using the .NET Configuration Management Application Block, Jason Mauss
November 2003 Downloads
October 2003
Creating a Custom ADO.NET Provider, Matthew MacDonald
Exception Handling in ASP.NET, Part 1, Haroon Rasheed Malik
Unlocking Visual Source Safe, Jason Mauss
October 2003 Downloads
September 2003
Programming the .NET Compact Framework, Wei-Meng Lee
Process Management Under IIS With Windows 2003, Todd Meister
Analyze Your Web Site with OleDb, Eric Bergman-Terrell
September 2003 Downloads
August 2003
Write Your Own Web Server in C#, Randy Charles Morin
Cross-Platform Instant Messaging with Web Services, Part 2, Prasad DV
Understanding Method and Operator Overloading, Kamal Patel
August 2003 Downloads
July 2003
Use Web Services to Implement Cross-Platform Instant Messaging, Prasad DV
Great ASP.NET Reports May be Easier than You Thought, Danny Lesandrini
Creating a Class Hierarchy Browser, Jose Rodriguez,
July 2003 Downloads
June 2003
Integrating Real-World Web Services into Your Windows Application, Wei-Meng Lee
Deploying ASP.NET Applications Built on Different Framework Versions, Zhanbo Sun
Using SMTP and the .NET Framework Mail Component, Todd Meister
June 2003 Downloads
May 2003
Exploring Windows Services with a Delayed File Delete Service, Jani Jarvinen
Managed Controls and Policy Resolution in the .NET Framework, Michael Stiefel and Stephen McCloskey
A Configuration Guide to Target Different .NET Framework Versions, Zhanbo Sun
May 2003 Downloads
April 2003
Parallel Computing with .NET Remoting, Eric Bergman-Terrell
Browser Capabilities in .NET: Worth Using? Mike Gunderloy
Providing Help for Web Applications, Austin Avrashow
.NET Object Grouping: Hastables and Custom Collection Classes, Mike Westcott
April 2003 Downloads
March 2003
Sockets Programming in .NET, Wei-Meng Lee
Preventing Elevation of Privilege Attacks Using .NET Security Actions, Michael Stiefel and Stephen McCloskey
Customize the ErrorProvider Control, Shanbo Sun
The Joy of .NET Graphics, Eric Bergman-Terrell
March 2003 Downloads
February 2003
Understanding .NET Security Actions, Michael Stiefel
DNS Client Programming, Jason Coombs
Dynamically Remoting: Marshal-by-Value Objects, Akshay Luther
Accessing a Remote SQL Server from ASP.NET, Dandra Gopikrishna
February 2003 Downloads
January 2003
Generic ADO.NET Code - Is It Really Possible, Matthew Macdonald
Native Image Generation for the CLR: The Good, the Bad, and the Useless, Nick Wienhold
Programming .NET Code Access Security, Michael Stiefel
Automatics Paging in the DataGrid Control, Haroon Rasheed Malik
Tip: Prevent the Recycling of the ASP.NET WP Worker Process, Sandra Gopikrishna
January 2003 Downloads
December 2002
Five Things You Can't Do with Visual Studio .NET, Zhanbo Sun
Creating a Custom Thumbnail Viewer Control, Matthew Macdonald
.NET Object Grouping: Arrays and ArrayLists, Mike Westcott
Plug-Ins Architecture for .NET, Nick Wienholt
December 2003 Downloads
November 2002
Automating Excel with COM Interop, Joe Mayo
Exploring ADO.NET, Xingzeng Liu
Tip: ASP.NET's Forgetful Globals, Bill Hatfield
November 2002 Downloads
October 2002
Working with .NET Memory Management, Brian Boyce
Parsing Web Pages as XML, Jason Coombs
Serializing Objects as XML, Bipin Joshi
Compress Data Streams on the Fly, Nick Wienholt
October 2002 Downloads
September 2002
Exploring the Object Class and the Common Type System, Paul Cooper
Tip: Getting the Machine IP Address, Sandra Gopkrishna
.NET Data Providers: SQL vs. OLEDB, Jason Mauss
An Enhanced Window Docking Approach, Phil Wright
Directory Tree Navigation in .NET, Eric Bergman-Terrell
September 2002 Downloads
August 2002
Build Your Own ASP.NET Web Server Controls, Donald King
Editorial: Hardcore Visual Studio NET, Bill Hatfield
Nix the Code-Behind Overhead with a Template for Simple Web Forms, Josef Finsel
Add Some Pizzazz to Your User Interface, Jason Mauss
.NET Security Explained: ASP.NET Security, Tarak Modi
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Random Acts of Computing, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
Tip: Exploring .NET Array Alternatives, Bill Hatfield
August 2002 Downloads
July 2002
Customizing Visual Studio .NET with Wizards, Chandu Thota
VB.NEW: DirectX Graphics, Part 2, Wayne S. Freeze
.NET Security Explained, Part 3: Role-Based Security, Tarak Modi
COM+ Services in .NET: Shared Property Manager, Ed Musters
XML in Visual Studio .NET, Jason Mauss
July 2002 Downloads
June 2002
.NET Security Explained, Part 2: Code-Access Security, Tarak Modi
VB.NEW: DirectX Graphics, Wayne S. Freeze
COM+ Services in .NET: Security, Ed Musters
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Screen Scraping, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
Tip: Making a Group of Web Controls Appear and Disappear, Vaidyaraman S
Tip: Running Applications from Your Code, Sandra Gopikrishna
June 2002 Source Code
May 2002
Introducing COM+ Services in .NET, Ed Musters
VB.NEW: Performance Counters, Wayne S. Freeze
.NET Security Explained: The Basics, Tarak Modi
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Catching SoapExceptions in a Web Service Client, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
May 2002 Source Code
April 2002
Transforming COM+ Applications into Web Services Using Windows XP, Vaidyaraman S
VB.NEW: Files and Streams, Wayne S. Freeze
Creating Custom Web Server Controls, Aubrey Cote
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Event Bubbling, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
April 2002 Source Code
March 2002
.NET Remoting Explained: Declarative .NET Remoting, Tarak Modi
VB.NEW: Adding Attributes, Wayne S. Freeze
Integrating QuickBooks 2002 with .NET, Jason Coombs
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Q&A Grab Bag, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
Book Review: Professional .NET Framework, Danny Lesandrini
March 2002 Source Code
February 2002
.NET Interoperability with COM Components, Mike Gunderloy
VB.NEW: Packaging and Deployment, Wayne S. Freeze
.NET Remoting Explained: Client-Activated Objects, Tarak Modi
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Removing Elements from a DataSet, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
February 2002 Source Code
January 2002
NET Remoting Explained: Server-Activated Objects, Tarak Modi
VB .NEW: Pictures and Images, Wayne S. Freeze
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Working with Embedded Controls in a DataGrid, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
January 2002 Source Code
December 2001
.NET Remoting Explained, Tarak Modi
VB .NEW: Building Windows Services, Wayne S. Freeze
Use XML Serialization with Configuration Files, Aubrey Cote’ and J. Wayne Myers, Jr.
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Building Templated Controls from HTML Controls, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
Adding Multiple Columns to a ListView Control, Melanie Talmadge
Book Review: Professional C# Bob Swart
Book Review: Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days, Bill Hatfield
December 2001 Source Code
November 2001
Using Assemblies and Namespaces, Mike Gunderloy
VB.NEW: Multithreaded Programming, Wayne S. Freeze
Implementing N-Tier Error Handling and Reporting with C#, Aubrey Cote’ and J. Wayne Myers, Jr.
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Building Templated Controls from HTML Controls, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
.NET Tip: Generating Random Numbers, Melanie Talmadge
November 2001 Source Code
October 2001
Web Site Globalization and Localization Techniques in .NET, Andrew Jennings
VB.NEW: COM and COM+ Compatibility, Wayne S. Freeze
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Data, Data Everywhere, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
.NET Tip: ASP.NET Page Tracing, Sandra Gopikrishna
.NET Tip: Using IsPostBack in ASP.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
October 2001 Source Code
September 2001
A Quick Tour of the Common Library Runtime, Wayne S. Freeze
VB.NEW: Collecting Garbage, Wayne S. Freeze
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Transaction Management in the .NET Framework, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
.NET Tip: Importing Namespaces in ASP.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
September 2001 Source Code
August 2001
A Look at the IBuySpy Demos, Robert Lair
.NET Tip: Reading a Text File from ADO.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
VB.NEW: Constructing Classes and Structures, Wayne S. Freeze
Ask the DotNetJunkies: SQL Server Security and Creating Server Controls with JavaScript, Doug Seven and Donny Mack
.NET Tip: File Uploading in ASP.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
Building Peer-to-Peer Network Applications with .NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
Migrating from Beta 1 to Beta 2: Key ADO.NET Issues, Jim Comparin
August 2001 Source Code
July 2001
C# for VB Programmers: An Introduction, R. L. Parker
VB.NEW: Exceptions and Errors, Wayne S. Freeze
Goodbye, CDO: Sending E-mail with ASP.NET, Srinivasa Sivakumar
Ask the DotNetJunkies: Accessing User Control Properties in Code Behind Forms, Doug Seven and Don Mack
Book Review: A Preview of Active Server Pages+, Jim Comparin
.NET Tip: Creating and Writing to Text Files from ASP.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
.NET Tip: Making Cookies, Sandra Gopikrishna
July 2001 Source Code
June 2001
Untangling .NET, Bill Hatfield
Editorial: .NET Developer Delivers!, Bill Hatfield
Using ADO.NET Typed DataSets, Jim Comparin
.NET Tip: Deleting Files from ASP.NET, Sandra Gopikrishna
VB.NEW: Inheriting Riches, Wayne S. Freeze
Ask the DotNetJunkies: The XmlDocument Class and Authentication with Web Services, Doug Seven and Don Wolthuis
Premier Issue Source Code
Tables of Contents from Visual Basic Developer (alias Hardcore Visual Basic)
October 2005
Speaking of Focus, Karen Watterson
Application Settings in Windows Forms 2.0, Wei-Meng Lee
VB Explorations: Make Mine Static, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Error Management with the Exception Handling Application Block, Carl Ganz, Jr
VB-Helper: Breakpoints and Bookmarks and Hacks, Oh, My! Rod Stephens
Web Feature: Adding the Technorati Information Edge, John Mueller
Web Feature: Gotta Lotta Metadata, Part 1, Steve Abbott
October 2005 Downloads
September 2005
VB-Helper: Sort Support, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Serially Speaking, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Using Web Services for Your Data Layer, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Open the Pod Door, Hal, Steve Abbott
Keeping Current with 10x10, John Mueller
Using ASP.NET's DataGrid to Print Browser Pages, Regina Krupitskaya
Tip: Making Sure You Start with a Fresh Slate, Jon Price
Tip: Are Two Images the Same? Steve Abbott
September 2005 Downloads
August 2005
Attributes for All, Gavin Sullivan
VB Explorations: Refactor This! Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Data Access Application Blocks, Carl Ganz, Jr.
FlexWiki: Communication and Collaboration, John Mueller
Using ASP.NET's DataGrid to Print Browser Pages, Regina Krupitskaya
VB-Helper: Avoiding a Lethal Injection, Rod Stephens
Tip: Automating Excel, Jon Price
August 2005 Downloads
July 2005
Database Developer: Programming Office Web Components for Microsoft Excel, Carl Ganz, Jr.
VB Explorations: And Today's Menu is…, Dan Appleman
Replacing MS Word Bookmarks with XML Tags in VB6, Eli Leiba
Don't Quote Me on That, Jon Price
VB6 and the Win32 API, Tom Reid
VB-Helper: What's New in VB 2005, Rod Stephens
July 2005 Downloads
June 2005
VB Explorations: Browse Me A Picture, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Threading Your Database Applications, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Replacing MS Word Bookmarks with XML Tags in VB6, Eli Leiba
Preserving Memories, Jon Price
Improving Productivity with Code Generation, Dmitri Khanine
Using SQLCmd to Manage SQL Databases, John Mueller
A Twist in Color Space, Steve Abbott
June 2005 Downloads
May 2005
Database Developer: Reporting with Microsoft Excel, Carl Ganz, Jr.
VB Explorations: That's the Ticket, Dan Appleman
Create a Reusable SpellCheck Class Using Word and VB.NET, Pete Rodriguez
VB-Helper: Control Arrays, .NET Style, Rod Stephens
Programming Stored Procedure Parameters, Rick Dobson
May 2005 Downloads
April 2005
The Lesser Known Format Function, Rick Rothstein
VB Explorations: Things I Learned Today, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Data-driven Programming with VB.NET, Carl Ganz, Jr.
A New View of Web Development with Visual Web Developer, John Paul Mueller
VB-Helper: Amazing Attributes, Rod Stephens
April 2005 Downloads
March 2005
VB-Helper: Frenetic Fractals, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Your Permission, Please, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Disassemble that Assembly, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Extracting GPS Data from EXIF Image Files, Gerald Pattyn
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due, Jon Price
March 2005 Downloads
February 2005
VB Explorations: Deadlock, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Protecting your Custom Software, Carl Ganz, Jr.
A Journey into a Higher Dimension, Steven Abbott
Getting E-Commerce XML Feed Data with Microsoft .XMLHTTP, Regina Krupitskaya
VB-Helper: The Transformers, Rod Stephens
Geocoding Primer, Gerald Pattyn
February 2005 Downloads
January 2005
Database Developer: Data Mining with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, Carl Ganz, Jr.
The Ordinal Number Function Revisited, Rick Rothstein
VB Explorations: The Image is in the Eye of the Beholder, Dan Appleman
Creating a Custom Google Search for your Web Site, John Mueller
Letter: Guilty as Charged? Steven Abbott, Rod Stevens, and Karen Watterson
VB-Helper: The Pen is Mightier than the ForeColor, Rod Stephens
Tip: Just NUnit it! Karen Watterson
Tip: Getting the (IRS) Dates Right, Jon Price
January 2005 Downloads
December 2004
VB Explorations: Devices Come, Devices Go, Part 2, Dan Appleman
Database Developer: Working with Files and Directories, Carl Ganz, Jr.
A Matter of Timing, Jon Price
VB-Helper: .NET Object Lists, Rod Stephens
Implementing Object Data Binding in Visual Studio 2005, Thiru Thangarathinam
The Image that Wasn't There, Steve Abbott
Tip: Crafty Conversion between Graphic Formats, Karl Moore
Tip: Early Binding Office Objects May Cause Error 91, Jon Kilburn
Tip: Form Transparency, Gerald Patyn
December 2004 Downloads
November 2004
Database Developer Corner: Taking a Walk on the Client Side, Carl Ganz, Jr.
VB Explorations: Devices Come, Devices Go, Part 1, Dan Appleman
Report-enable your Web Apps with Microsoft Reporting Services, Teo Lachev
A Shift in Logic, Jon Price
Programming Internet Explorer, Rick Dobson
Tip: The Ordinal Number Function, Karl Moore
November 2004 Downloads
October 2004
Implementing the Factory Method and Singleton in VB6, Artem Vasiliev
VB Explorations: The Atomic Timer, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Application Prototyping Techniques, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Opting for Simplicity with Server Side Includes, John Mueller
VB-Helper: Stick to the Script, Rod Stephens
Taking the Rough with the Smooth, Steven Abbott
Tip: Strong Typing the Easy Way, Rod Stephens
October 2004 Downloads
September 2004
Troubleshooting ADO.NET Connection Pooling, Dmitri Khanine
VB Explorations: Ones and Zeroes - Three Ways, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Passing Data via Web Services, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Editing Records with the DataGrid, Jon Price
VB-Helper: MenuImageProvider and Friends, Rod Stephens
Review (Janus GridEx): On the Grid, Dianne Siebold
September 2004 Downloads
August 2004
Building the Third State, Philip Pursglove
Database Developer Corner: Managing Disconnected Data in ADO and ADO.NET, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Array Processing in Visual Basic .NET, Rick Dobson
VB-Helper: What's on the Menu? Rod Stephens
Updated: Caught on Cam(era) and 'The Need for Speed,' Steven Abbott
Integrating QuickBooks into your VB Apps, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Tip: Automating Data-driven HTML Dropdowns, Francisco J. Lopez
Tip: A Brief Excursion into Recursion, Jon Price
August 2004 Downloads
July 2004
VB-Helper: What a Drag! Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Marshal, Marshal! The Natives are Out of Control! Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Calling .NET Assemblies and Web Services from VB6, Carl Ganz, Jr
Implementing and Deploying Secure Internet Applications with Microsoft Enterprise Services (COM+), Leon Zhang
Filtering Spacy Spam Words, Rick Dobson
Tip: A Dialogue about Dialog Boxes, Dianne Siebold
July 2004 Downloads
June 2004
VB Explorations: Strong Names and Security, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Client-Side Database Manipulation, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Dynamically Creating, Annotating, and Servicing Images via Web Services, Leon Zhang
VB-Helper: Sortable ListView, Rod Stephens
Holidays with Class in .NET, Francisco J. Lopez
Tip: Troubleshooting SQL Server, Chris Kempster
Floating Label ActiveX Control, MN Jayaram
June 2004 Downloads
May 2004
1,206 Whales in "Moby Dick,' Steven Abbott
VB Explorations: It Went Thataway, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: ADO.NET Data Mapping, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Using the Layered Windows APIs, Subramanya S. Kanagal
VB-Helper: Hot Properties, Rod Stephens
Use VB.NET to Debug Stored Procedures, Dianne Siebold
Tip: Compare Two Dates in Aspx Files, Satish Ri
May 2004 Downloads
April 2004
VB Explorations: Comes the Spider, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Getting Data Object Schemas to Work for You, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Writing Exchange 2003 and 2000 Client Applications, Dmitri Khanine
VB-Helper: RSS: It's News to Me, Rod Stephens
Real Web Services with Amazon, John Paul Mueller
The Need for Speed, Steven Abbott
April 2004 Downloads
March 2004
VB Explorations: Any Port in a Storm, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: ADO.NET Data Class Wrappers, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Image Scanning Through Terminal Services in VB6, Dan Pruitt, Jr.
VB-Helper: Strong Stuff, Rod Stephens
Making the Count, Jon Price
March 2004 Downloads
February 2004
VB Explorations: Really Simple Syndication, Dan Appleman
Database Developer Corner: Building Dynamic Menus, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Filtering Spam in Outlook, Rick Dobson
VB-Helper: PrintForm.NET, Rod Stephens
Accessing Extra Image Information in JPEG Files, Steven Abbott
Vector Averages, Tom Moreau
February 2004 Downloads
January 2004
Simple Code Page Encryption, Jon Kilburn
VB Explorations: Wave After Wave, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: What to Do when Column Size Matters, William Vaughn
Caught on Cam(era), Steven Abbott
XML eXcursions, Part 3, Rod Stephens
January 2004 Downloads
December 2003
Building a Visual Basic .NET Script Engine, John Mancuso
Tip: Compressing Dates, Subramanya Kanagal
VB Explorations: Customizing Print Dialogs, Dan Appleman
The Trick to Temporary Files, Karl Moore
Much ADO About Data: Doing the Impossible (Again), Bill Vaughn
XML eXcursions, Part 2, Rod Stephens
Tip: Classy Arrays, Rod Stephens
Tip: Create a Default Enter Button with ASP.NET, Karl Moore
Tip: How Big is that File, in English? Karl Moore
December 2003 Downloads
November 2003
VB Explorations: Copycat, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: Keeping Your Cool When Your Stored Procedures Start Talking Back, Bill Vaughn
XML eXcursions, Part 1, Rod Stephens
Hierarchical Relationships Using the Infragistics ActiveTreeView Control and SQL Server, Carl Ganz
November 2003 Downloads
October 2003
Making Remoting Work for You, John Mueller
Tip: Add Your Web Link to the Favorites! Karl Moore
VB Explorations: You Mean We Really Have to Ship It? Now?, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: Putting Stored Procedures - and DBAs - to the Test, Part 2, Bill Vaughn
PowerPoint Users, Take Note, Rod Stephens
Using the sql_variant Data Type, Rick Dobson
Product Review: ActiveReports for .NET, Russell Sinclair
October 2003 Downloads
September 2003
VB Explorations: Hardcore Events, Dan Appleman
Tip: .NET Declaration Gotcha, Rod Stephens
Much ADO About Data: Putting Stored Procedures - and DBAs - to the Test, Part 1, Bill Vaughn
It's a Small World, Steven Abbott
Making a Generic Splash, Rod Stephens
Programming SQL Server Security, Rick Dobson
Tip: Apology not Accepted, Rod Stephens
Tip: Parsing Numbers, .NET Style, Rod Stephens
September 2003 Downloads
August 2003
Fun with DrawImage, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Slashdotted, Dan Appleman
Tip: String Conversion Tips, Rod Stephens
Blobs, Hacks, and Gotchas, Steven Abbott
Close Encounters with a Beautiful Mind, Edward Nilges
An Odd Numeric Formatting Problem, Tom Moreau
Emulating DigiComp, Jon Price
August 2003 Downloads
July 2003
Writing a DVD/Video Player Using Visual Basic, Steven Roman
VB Explorations: Myths and Facts about Managed Code, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: Sorting, Seeking, Filtering, and Finding, Bill Vaughn
Expressions Revisited, Rod Stephens
Coda: Even Fitter, Steven Abbott
July 2003 Downloads
June 2003
Control of the Month: SlickSlider, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Hijacking .NET, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: Strongly Typed Data Revisited, Bill Vaughn
Is Your Application Accessible?, John Mueller
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Report Development, Carl Ganz
Tip: FixQuotes Macro, Rod Stephens
June 2003 Downloads
May 2003
Make Your Code Self-Documenting, John Mueller
VB Explorations: Signing XML, Dan Appleman
Populating a Multi-table DataSet with SQLXML, John Mancuso
User-Friendly Entry Forms, Jon Price
Skip Lists, Rod Stephens
Exploring Yukon, Randy Pack
May 2003 Downloads
April 2003
Get the Most from VB's Error Handling Facilities, Leonardo Bosi
VB Explorations: The Truth About .NET Resources, Part 2, Dan Appleman
Much ADO About Data: Doing the Impossible with ADO.NET, Part 2 Bill Vaughn
BSP Trees, Rod Stephens
Review: FxCop 1.074, Karen Watterson
Letter: How Can I Port an eVB App to VB6? Michael Quinn and Rob Tiffany
Tip: "Industrial Strength" Sample Schemas - for Free, Karen Watterson
Tip: Fuslogvw.exe, Karen Watterson
Tip: Changing Directories, Jon Kilburn
April 2003 Downloads
March 2003
Much ADO About Data: Doing the Impossible with ADO.NET, Bill Vaughn
Editorial: Microsoft Windows .NET Compact Framework, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: The Truth About .NET Resources, Part 1, Dan Appleman
Fit for Purpose: The Nonlinear Case, Steven Abbott
One Man's Blueprint for Reuse, Edward Nilges
Retrieving File Information in VB.NET, Debbie Cooper
Control of the Month: ScrollText, Rod Stephens
March 2003 Downloads
February 2003
Fit for Purpose, Steven Abbott
VB Explorations: Calling all COM, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: What's Wrong with This Code?, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Pixel Filler, Rod Stephens
Another Random Number Generator, Anonymous
Set Theory and SQL, Joseph Gama
Of Time and GUIDs: A VB.NET Version of NewComb(), Jimmy Nilsson
February 2003 Downloads
January 2003
Doing Icons with Visual Basic 6, Steven Roman
VB Explorations: Hidden Treasures, Part 2, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: An Expert Speaks, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Barcode, Part 2, Rod Stephens
Poor Man's Multi-Language Support, Nolan Zak
Tip: The Smart Way to Handle Quotes, Jon Price
Tip: .NET CF Help, Karen Watterson
January 2003 Downloads
December 2002
Developing Windows Services with VB.NET, Wei Meng Lee
VB Explorations: Hidden Treasures, Part 1, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: WS-Security, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Barcode, Part 1, Rod Stephens
Monitoring Files the Easy Way Using VB.NET, Debbie Cooper
December 2002 Downloads
November 2002
Alert! A Reminder Utility, MN Jayaram
VB.NETworthy: Scared Secure Yet? Rob Macdonald
VB Explorations: VB.NET or C#? The Question Revisited, Dan Appleman
Searchable Combo Boxes Revisited, Philip Pursglove
Tip: Smart Breakpointing, Chris Dimmer
Control of the Month: ComboTab, Rod Stephens
Only Connect, Steve Abbott
November 2002 Downloads
October 2002
Programming Adobe Acrobat, Carl Ganz, Jr.
VB.NETworthy: Storing Data with Isolated Storage, Rob Macdonald
VB Explorations: I Shot an Arrow into the Air, Dan Appleman
Control of the Month: PriorityQueue, Rod Stephens
Using the TreeView Control, RL Parker
Paging Returned Recordsets, Jon Kilburn
October 2002 Downloads
September 2002
VB.NETworthy: Small is Smart, Rob Macdonald with Tom Payne
VB Explorations: Speed Tests, Dan Appleman
Create Excel Spreadsheets without Excel, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Roll Your Own Call Graph Inspector, Jason Bock
A Real Balancing Act, Robert Trueblood and John Lovett, Jr.
Tip: Seek and Ye Shall Find, Jon Kilburn
Control of the Month: A ComplexNumber Class, Rod Stephens
Quick Introduction to System Objects, Josef Finsel
September 2002 Downloads
August 2002
Automating Visual SourceSafe, Philip Pursglove
VB Explorations: Mail Call, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Browsers are for Browsing, Rob Macdonald
Transform Your Data, Steve Abbott
Animating Windows in VB, Debbie Cooper
Control of the Month: Digression, Rod Stephens
Modifying ASP Pages to Work with Mobile Devices, Jon Kilburn
Tip: Export Data to Excel, Youning Lin
August 2002 Downloads
July 2002
Multi-threading Using VB.NET, Wei Meng Lee
VB Explorations: The Missing Feature, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Ode to a T-shirt, Rob Macdonald
Creating Transparent GIFs in VB.NET, Dave Martin
Review: ComponentOne Preview for .NET, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Control of the Month: Storing Files with FileStore, Rod Stephens
Captured! Steven Abbott
Saving and Retrieving ListBox Entries in a File, Debbie Cooper
July 2002 Downloads
June 2002
Emitting Code, Jason Bock
VB Explorations: How Big is a Boolean? Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: .NET Remoting, Part 2, Rob Macdonald
Passing ADO Recordsets to Crystal Reports, Carl Ganz
Using Templates for Class Design, Igor Ponomarev
Control of the Month: Finding Differences with Diff, Rod Stephens
Data Access Pattern Update, Jimmy Nilsson
June 2002 Downloads
May 2002
A Simple Messaging Framework for Asynchronous Calls, Li Shen
Editorial: Springing Forward, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Tracing Paper, Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: .NET Remoting, Part 1, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Great Combinations, Rod Stephens
Letter: Rod is Too Modest, Steven Abbott
Making a Combo Box Searchable, Jon Price
Tip: Populate a ListBox Control with Directories and Files, Debbie Cooper
May 2002 Downloads
April 2002
Control of the Month: A Cheap Chart, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: The Hacker's Journal, Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: Data Binding and Windows Forms, Rob Macdonald
Taming the Recycle Bin in Visual Basic, Debbie Cooper
A Basic Lesson on Income Tax, Jon Price
Data Validation with RegObj, Jon Kilburn
April 2002 Downloads
March 2002
Time-stamp Your Files using Visual Basic, Debbie Cooper
VB Explorations: Option Slow On, Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: Too Hot to Handle, Rob Macdonald
Making Connections, Part 2, Jon Price
ArrayList and Other Collection Classes, R.L. Parker
Control of the Month: Fetching Web Data, Rod Stephens
Software FX's Free Chart FX Lite for .NET, Karen Watterson
Tip: Embossed Text, Jon Kilburn
March 2002 Downloads
February 2002
VS.NETworthy: ADO. NET: Advice from a Pro, Rob Macdonald
VB Explorations: The Great Finalization Controversy, Dan Appleman
Making Connections, Part 1, Jon Price
Introducing the ODBC .NET Data Provider, Karen Watterson
Nested File Search Using VB's Dir$ Function and Win32 APIs, Cliff Chen
Control of the Month: XmlTree, Rod Stephens
Arrays in VB.NET, R. L. Parker
February 2002 Downloads
January 2002
Anticipating Common Data Entry Errors, Jon Price
VB Explorations: Streams of Cryptonite, Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: Web Services Security, Rob Macdonald
Add AutoComplete to your VB Apps, Debbie Cooper
Control of the Month: AniGif, Rod Stephens
Keeping 'em Happy with Application Security, Carl Ganz Jr.
Tip: Making Outlook-Style Forms, Jon Kilburn
Tip: ADO.NET, Cursors, and Concurrency, Karen Watterson and Bill Vaughn
January 2002 Downloads
December 2001
Going Mobile with MIT, Karl Moore
VB Explorations: String Me Along, Dan Appleman
VS.NETworthy: ASP.NET State Services, Rob Macdonald
Moving ListBox Items Up or Down, Debbie Cooper
Superscripting and Subscripting Text in a RichTextBox, Robert Trueblood
Tip: DOS 8.3 Filenames, MN Jayaram
Tip: Palindromic Dates, Rod Stephens
VB.NET Control of the Month: AutoRedraw Rod Stephens
LIUSLog—Semi-automatic Logging, Ola Fjelddahl
Tip: Update: Calculate Large Drive Capacity, Jon Kilburn
Tip: Bug: PictureBox Prints Incorrectly with PrintForm, Regina Krupitskaya
December 2001 Downloads
November 2001
Adventures in ASP.NET - A Tale of a Tab Strip, Thomas Brattin
VB Explorations: On Deck with .NET, Dan Appleman and Liron Shapira
VS.NETworthy: Designing a Web Service, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Windows Wonders Redux, Rob Stephens
Split those Menus, Debbie Cooper
Create an NT Share Programmatically, Steve Hudson
November 2001 Downloads
October 2001
Harness Diagramming Power by Programming Visio, Graham Wideman
VB Explorations: Late-Bound Events, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Web Services for Real, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Windowless Wonders, Rod Stephens
Unicode in the Garden, Fritz Kuhn
October 2001 Downloads
September 2001
NS Basic/Palm 2.0, Jon Kilburn
VB Explorations: What Day is It? Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: .NET InterOp, Rob Macdonald
VB.NET Control of the Month: Cycloid, Rod Stephens
True Love: A Match Made in Computer Heaven, Jon Price
Tip: FirstFind with Listbox, Vajee Uddin
September 2001 Downloads
August 2001
VB Explorations: .NET's "Hidden" Language, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Understanding Namespaces, Rob Macdonald
TreeView Tricks, Jon Kilburn
Control of the Month: Subclasser, Rod Stephens
Playing with TreeView Nodes, Debbie Cooper
Letter: Server-Side Automation, Larry Hennig
Securing SQL Server Applications, Morris Lewis
Tip: Beware Scoping Changes, Stephen Heylings
August Downloads
July 2001
Control of the Month: MessageBox, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Configuring .NET, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Understanding Assemblies, Rob Macdonald
Book Review: Joe Celko's "SQL Puzzles and Answers," Diane Brockman
Roundtrips are Evil - Reduce Them! Jimmy Nilsson
Creating Non-rectangular Windows in VB - and a Reason to Do So, Steven Roman
Tip: Numeric Input Only, S.S. Kanagal
Removable Front Panels, David W. Radcliff
July 2001 Downloads
June 2001
Error Handling the VB.NET Way: Living with Exceptions, Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison
VB Explorations: Taking a Dip in the Thread Pool, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: On Form with HTML, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: LongTimer, Rod Stephens
Improve Your N-Tier Application with Interface Inheritance, R.L. Parker
Processing Error Messages in VB, Debbie Cooper
June 2001 Downloads
May 2001
An Intro to AppForge, Jon Kilburn
Guest Editorial: It Works for Me, Barry Gilchrist
VB Explorations: Crunch Mode, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Get on Form with VB.NET, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: ImageMap, Rod Stephens
Shorten Pathnames Using Ellipsis Characters, Debbie Cooper
Writing your first Pocket PC Program, Rob Tiffany
Tip: The GIMP, Peter McMahon
May 2001 Downloads
April 2001
Control of the Month: D3DScene, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Wait Just a Second, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Creating a Web Service: IsPalindrome, Rob Macdonald
Improve Your UI Design Process with Object-Oriented Techniques, Gordana Lamb
A Vote for Option Buttons, Jon Price
Tip: Where's the Truth, Rick Rothstein
Tip: Word Counter, Rick Rothstein
April 2001 Downloads
March 2001
Take your ASP Code to the Next Level - Compile It, Thomas Brattin
VB Explorations: Mirror, Mirror, on your Code, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: Why VB.NET? Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: FileCopier, Rod Stephens
Yet Another PowerPoint Slide Show, Clive Harman Smith
Product Review: Janus GridEx 2000, Jon Kilburn
Banish the XML Bogeyman, Anton Britten
Word Click, Rick Rothstein
March 2001 Downloads
February 2001
Using the Windows Scripting Host Object Model, Philip Pursglove
Guest Editorial: Relflections on Coding and Design, Bill Woodruff
VB Explorations: Numeric Data Types in VB.NET, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: XML, XML, Everywhere, Rob Macdonald
Control of the month: PreviewPiction, Rod Stephens
Letter: VB's IsNumeric Function, JR Crellin and Rick Rothstein
It Happens by Magic, of Course, David Birmingham
February 2001 Downloads
January 2001
A Reluctant DBA's Introduction to Stored Procedures, Josef Finsel
VB Explorations: Inheritance and VB.NET, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: ADO.NET Rob Macdonald
Tip: Every Millisecond Counts in Internet Time, Prabhakar Reddy
Control of the Month: The Tree Control, Part 2, Rod Stephens
Using the MSFlexGrid Control to Create Your Own XML Editor, Jon Kilburn
Drawing Size Grips on VB Forms, Debbie Cooper
Dabbling with Directories, Barry Gilchrist
January 2001 Downloads
December 2000
Write Your Own XML Composer in Visual Basic, Thomas Brattin
Letters: Wish Lists Recalled, Nicolo de Faveri Tron and Rob Macdonald
VB Explorations: Spring Cleaning, Part 2, Dan Appleman
VB.NETworthy: An Exceptional Catch, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: The Tree Control, Part 1, Rod Stephens
Straight and to the (Power)Point, Jon Kilburn
December 2000 Downloads
November 2000
Is COM+ Cleaner with SOAP? Cuneyt Varol
Guest Editorial: Does Microsoft Really "Get It?" David Clements
Spring Cleaning, Part 1, Dan Appleman
VB.Networthy: It's VB, Jim, But Not As We Know It, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: ScrollBox, Rod Stephens
Getting Started with VB and Sybase, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Client-Side Caching, Jimmy Nilsson
November 2000 Downloads
October 2000
ADO Command Structure, William R. Vaughn
Editorial: The .NET Big Thing, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations, Your IP Addresses, Dan Appleman
Build Your Own 3-D Label Custom Control, Jon Kilburn
A Custom Print Dialog for Microsoft Word, M.N. Jayaram
It’s a Date, but Which One? Rick Rothstein
Data Reporter and Date Source Classes, Alexander Werner
Tip: Rank Order Comparisons, Jim Boismier
Clearing Combo Box and List Box Controls Quickly, Debbie Cooper
Tip: Recordset Conversion, Antonin Foller
Octboer 2000 Downloads
September 2000
Reacquainting Yourself with the ADO Command Object, David Small
Patterns in the .NET Age, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: MultiLine Combo Box, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Would the Real Administrator Please Stand Up? Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Normalization, Baseball, and the Registry, Bill Shadish
Writing to the Event Log Made Easier, Ola Fjelddahl
FileSystemObject, Mike McMillan
September 2000 Downloads
August 2000
Roll Your Own Wizard, Norman Martin
Improved Performance with Long Strings, Mats Halfvares
Automating the Building of VB Components, Michael Kaplan
Control of the Month: RotatedLabel, Rod Stephens
Connect to a DCOM Server Under Different User Name, Roman Korchagin
Email-enabling your VB6 Applications, Carl Ganz, Jr.
August 2000 Downloads
July 2000
Building Dockable Add-Ins for Visual Basic, Jason Fisher
Editorial: Extreme Programming, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: It's not the Size that Counts, Dan Appleman
DR VB-ish: Imporing Files via the Web, Bill Shadish
Extending the VB IDE, Peter Vogel
Control of the Month: CoolLabel, Rod Stephens
Letter: VB's IsNumeric Function, JR Crellin and Rick Rothstein
Tracking Data Changes with an Audit Class, Carl Ganz
July Subscriber Downloads
June 2000
Snap-in SDK for VB, Dmitry Artemov
Editorial: Development Cultures, Karen Watterson
Wrap that Agent, Kelly Elias
VB Explorations: On Buzzwords, Patterns, and Frameworks, Dan Appleman
Change the Toolbar's Style to Regular or Flat, Debbie Cooper
Control of the Month: PicturePicker, Rod Stephens
Tip: Drag and Drop between List Boxes, Robert Trueblood
Dabbling with Dimensions, Barry Gilchrist
June Subscriber Downloads
May 2000
An Update on Updating, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: EditFlex, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Oh, What a Tangled Web we Weave (Part 2), Dan Appleman
Building a Fraction Control, Jon Price
Dr. VB-ish: In Living Color, Bill Shadish
Tip: It Might be Ugly, but it's Fast, Ola Fjelddahl
Tip: Evaluate Min and Max Values, John Welch
May Subscriber Downloads
April 2000
The Dictionary Object and the Split and Join Functions, Mike McMillan
Centering Text with a Defined Area, Rick Rothstein
Parsing Pathnames for Partial File Names, Debbie Cooper
VB Explorations: Oh, What a Tangled Web we Weave, Dan Appleman
Control of the Month: Splitter, Rod Stephens
Dr VB-ish: Personal (Web) Service, Bill Shadish
"Arranging" Inheritance in VB6, Alexander Werner
Spruce Up Your Interface Using Label Tricks, Jon Kilburn
April Subscriber Downloads
March 2000
Building a Complex Number Calculator, Robert P. Trueblood
Editorial: ToDo: XML and Internet Devices, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: Popup Toolbar, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Off the Scales, Dan Appleman
VB PhoneHome, Catherine Spence
Dr. VB-ish: Browser Tabs, Bill Shadish
Tip: SQL/400, Karen Watterson
Move the Mouse Cursor Programmatically in VB, Raghu Nagumalli
February Subscriber Downloads
February 2000
Leveraging VBScript, VBA, and Excel to Solve an Input Problem, Jon Kilburn
Editorial: Wireless Internet 2000, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Free at last, Dan Appleman
Control of the Month: Scrolled Window, Rod Stephens
Microsoft Excel: More than just an End User Tool, Garry Robinson
Letters: Our Wish Lists for Visual Basic 7, Nicolo de Faveria Tron and Robert Macdonald
MOD: Not Just for Wimps, Karen Watterson
Dr. VB-ish: The Ninth Wonder of the World, Bill Shadish
February Subscriber Downloads
January 2000
A Dip in Pool, Rob Macdonald
Control of the Month: Engaging Gauges, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Mixing it Up, Dan Appleman
Implementing a VB6 Search Class, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Tired of Being Treated like a Second Class Citizen? Jimmy Nilsson
Dr. VB-ish: Let VB Control the Cursor, Bill Shadish
January Subscriber Downloads
December 1999
Designing a Visual Scheduler, Jon Price
Editorial: Feedback, Futures, and Forecasts, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: Eye-Popping Buttons, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: ADSI: A Hot New Technology, Dan Appleman
Installing SQL Server 6.5 and VS6 Under Windows 2000, John Mueller
Sockets in VB, Mike McMillan
Dr. VB-ish: Pondering Error Messages, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Property Lists to the People, Christopher Waters
Tip: Managing Stored Procedures, Garth Wells
Tip: Dual Interfaces, Anton Britten
December Subscriber Downloads
November 1999
Implementing Dual Interfaces, Ola Fjelddahl
Editorial: Suggestions for VB7 and Beyond, Karen Watterson with Rod Stephens
Control of the Month: The Symbiont, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: The Case of the Pinball Hacker, Dan Appleman and Franky Wong
Dabbling with Databases, Barry Gilchrist
Column Permissions, Dmitry Artemov
Tip: Simulate Explorer in VB, Suresh Natarajan
Execute Command Buttons Programmatically in VB, Debbie Cooper
Tip: Shades of Donald Knuth, Frank Yates
November Subscriber Downloads
October 1999
Serialize Classes to Enhance Performance and Usability, Paul Sanders
Editorial: Help with Data, Help From Friends, Karen Watterson
Tip: Add Version Info to Your Form Caption, Bill Mosca
Control of the Month: A Winning Combination, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Cache as Cache Can, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Everything You wanted to Know about RTF Boxes, Bill Shadish
Using a Class to Modify a ListView Control’s Style Settings, Debbie Cooper
Searching for Text Anywhere in a Database, Garry Robinson
October Subscriber Downloads
September 1999
Regular Expressions, Mike McMillan
Editorial: Dependencies, Karen Watterson, with Franky Wong and Peter Topham
Control of the Month: Uncommon Dialogs, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Dynamic MDI: The Sequel, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Y2K Anxiety, Arrays, and Process Monitoring, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Add Wizards to Your Programs, Christopher Waters
Improved Function to Restrict TextBox Entries, Rick Rothstein
Tip: Beware of the IsNumeric Function, Rick Rothstein
September Subscriber Downloads
August 1999
ADO Unplugged, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Time to Specialize?
Control of the Month: Animator, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: A Column High in Fiber, Daniel Appleman
Design Patterns and Reusability Frameworks, The Turbo Collection, David Birmingham
Passing Strings to CallBack Functions with VB5 and VB6, Ian Carter
Dr. VB-ish: Access, Undo, and Temporary Variables, Bill Shadish
Tip: VB5 Setup Wizard, Suresh Natarajan
July 1999
Microsoft Chart---Handle with Care, Garry Robinson
Active Developer, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: The Pgon shape Control, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Taking the Long View, Dan Appleman
Letter: SHBrowseForFolder API, Mats Malfvores
Intercepting Windows Messages in VB, Debbie Cooper
Dr. VB-ish: Creating Objects at Runtime and Staying on Top, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Quick and Easy Replacements, Chris Waters
Tip: Use the Text Box Control's KeyPress to Restrict Data Entry, Youning Lin
July Subscriber Downloads
June 1999
Defusing the Data Dilemma, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Documents and Knowledge, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: The IntField Control, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Going Commercial, Dan Appleman
Bitmap Grabber, MN Jayaram
Tip: Is Your App Running Under the VB IDE, Ola Fjelddahl
Tip: Is Your App Running, Simon MacArthur
Resize the Columns of a ListView Control, Debbie Cooper
Dr. VB-ish: Bananas, Parameters, and File Properties, Bill Shadish
Tip: Why Bother with Temporary Variables, Chris Anderson
June Subscriber Downloads
May 1999
Prevent "Stale Data" Problems, R.L. Parker
Editorial: Standards, Foolishness, MOD, and More, Karen Watterson
Control of the Month: The StretchLabel Control, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Wanna Cookie? Dan Appleman
AutoCAD VBA: An Introduction, Andy Roe
DR VB-ish: Wrappers, RegEdit and CD Mining, Bill Shadish
May Subscriber Downloads
April 1999
Data Compression and Visual Basic, Wally Foulkes
Guest Editorial: A Modest Proposal, Al Noel
Dictionary Pair Compression, Rod Stephens
Easy Naming, Robin Dewson
VB Explorations: TWAINing Wheels, Part 2, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Animated Logos and RDO, Bill Shadish
Tip: Propercase, Dave Swift
Tip: Assign Text to a Combo Box Control and Make the ListIndex Current, Youning Lin
April Subscriber Downloads
March 1999
Two MSMQ Scenarios, RL Parker
Editorial: We're Integration Gurus, Karen Watterson
Tip: Get a List of All the HOW TO: KB Articles, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Geometric Grab Bag, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: TWAINing Wheels, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Four-Leaf Questions, Bill Shadish
March Subscriber Downloads
February 1999
Talking Objects, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Beyond BI, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: The Full Monte Carlo, Rod Stephens
Tip: How to Get the Current User Local ProfilePath in Win9x/NT, Vyas Kondreddi
VB Explorations: Tape it or Leave It, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Background Processing, Bill Shadish
First Programs: Do You Remember Yours? Karen Watterson
Tip: Filenames, Barry Gilchrist
Tip: Avoiding User Defined Data Type Not Defined, Vyas Kondreddi
February Subscriber Downloads
January 1999
VB Explorations: Drawing the Invisible, Dan Appleman
Editorial: Winning and Winners
Project Pitfalls, David Birmingham
Letter: Mixer Functions, Larry DeCapp
Tip: Determine How the Computer System was Booted, Debbie Cooper
Letter: App.LogEvents Revisited, William O'Shea
Dr. VB-ish: Reading Binary Data Files---Even with Class---and Playing Shell Games, Bill Shadish
Tip: Automating Database Work Copy, Robert Trueblood
Review: Intersolv's Universal Data Access CBT, Karen Watterson
Tip: Cycle the Server, Ken Longcrier
Formatting Disks from within VB4/5/6, Debbie Cooper
Tip: Testing your Autorun Before Writing your Setup Porgram to the CD, Suresh Natarajan
Tip: CD-Based Programs, Suresh Natarajan
Tip: Drawing Focus Rectangles in VB4/5/6, Debbie Cooper
Cool Tool: Zippy Password Recovery, Chris Waters
January Subscriber Downloads
December 1998
Do-it-Yourself Recordsets, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Notes from Denver, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Cryptography and the Three Little Pigs, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Puzzles and Games: Conclusion, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: DLLs, Mice, and Clever Readers, Bill Shadish
Finally, A Batch Language for Windows, Peter Vogel
Tip: Is the IDE Running? Mike Grove
December Subscriber Downloads
November 1998
A Robust Error Management and Recovery Model, David Birmingham
Editorial: Full Plates, Karen Watterson
Tip: Shelling out to Control Panel Applets, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Recursion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Rod Stephens
Drawing and Manipulating an AND Gate in VB, Than Kywe
Tip: Put Hyperlink in About Box, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Puzzles and Games, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB-ish: Beyond Turkeys, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Enter Number of Dependents: ___, Chris Waters
November Subscriber Downloads
October 1998
Creating an Agent NT Service with VB, Diderick Oerlemans
Editorial: Components, MDBs, and Niches, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: The Assignment Problem, Rod Stephens
User Feedback in an n-tier World, R.L. Parker
VB Explorations: Obituaries and ASPs, Dan Appleman
VB Tip: Get Volume Information, Wallace Foulkes
Dr VB5: Fun and Clicks, Bill Shadish
Creating a System Information Class with Visual Basic, Jon Kilburn
VB Tip: Determine Whether your application is Running under the VB IDE, Debbie Cooper
Selecting Folders from a Dialog Box, Debbie Cooper
September 1998
A Catalog of Success, Rob Macdonald (Index Server)
Editorial: Leads and Links, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Ray Tracing, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Annoyed into Action (Part 2), Dan Appleman
Dr VB5: Generic Popup, Bill Shadish
Soundex Revisited, Christopher Marsh
VB Tip: Display Icon in its Grayed/Disabled State, Debbie Cooper
VB Tip: Screen Resolution Solution, James J. Fontaine
VB Tip: Array of Check Boxes, Peter Gibbs
VB Tip: Fight HLP Filesize Bloat, MN Jayaram
September Subscriber Downloads
August 1998
The Ultra Thin VB Client, David Birmingham
Editorial: VB6, Karen Watterson
Interfaces in a Nutshell, Rob Macdonald
VB Explorations: Annoyed into Action (Part 1), Dan Appleman
Dr VB5: Control at the Array Corral, Bill Shadish
Display the Properties Dialog Box for a Specific File in VB, Debbie Cooper
VB Letter: MDB Upper Limits, Raymond Wilson
Parlez-vous ECMAScript? Rick Dobson
Cool Tool: Trim that Fat! Christopher Waters
August Subscriber Downloads
July 1998
Doing Scriptlets with VBScript, Rick Dobson
Editorial: Mid-Summer Blues, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: A Welcome Visitor, Rod Stephens
SQL Server and VB via SQL DMO, Pradeep Gharat
VB Explorations: A Look at Network Resources, Dan Appleman
DR VB5: Variations on a Green Theme, Bill Shadish
Decompiling VB, Geoffrey Nolan
VB Tip: Form Activate and Deactivate, Adina Reeve
VBTip: Select Items in a List Box Control with the Right Mouse Button, Debbie Cooper
VB Tip: CD-ROM Databases, Friedrich Saurer
CoolTool: Log Your Own Events, Christopher Waters
July Subscriber Downloads
June 1998
An Introduction to Microsoft Transaction Server, R.L. Parker
Editorial: Year 2000, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Tree Trimming Revisited, Rod Stephens
VB Tip: FormDoc Routine, Rick Groszkiewics
VB Explorations: The Object That Came in from the Code (Part 2), Dan Appleman
VB Letter: Memory Pointers, Russ Brown
DR. VB5: Boxes, Boxes, Everywhere, Bill Shadish
VBTip: Display an Ellipsis when Text Is Too Wide, David Mackenzie
Review: VideoSoft's VSReports, Jon Kilburn
VB Letter: There's an Easier Way, Steve Beers
VB Tip: Registry Anomaly? Rick Groszkiewics
Creating and Removing Directories in VB, Debbie Cooper
VB Tip: Monitor Resolution, Jack Berndt
June Subscriber Downloads
May 1998
Design Patterns and Resusability with RDO and Oracle, David Birmingham
Editorial: Gearing up for SQL 7.0, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Generation Gap, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: The Object that Came in from the Code (Part 1), Dan Appleman
Drag and Drop Grows Up, Rod Macdonald
VB Letter: Inheritance, Chris Whellams
Dr. VB5: MVCMPFIX, Filesnames, and OLE Automation, Bill Shadish
Cool TooL Gauge Your Success, Christopher Waters
May Subscriber Downloads
April 1998
ADO: Learn to Love It, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Summer Upgrade
VB Tip: Where Are You? Grant Wickman
Algorithm Alley: Undo and Redo, Rod Stephens
VB Letter: Freeware File Editor, Thomas Moreau
VB Explorations: Short and Eclectic, Dan Appleman
VB Tip: Popup Menu Redux, Jon Kilburn
Find the Upper Bound of a Control Array, Chris Zhao
Importing ASCII Data, Carl Ganz, Jr.
Dr. VB5: Return Codes and Registry Woes, Bill Shadish
CoolTool: Earn While You Learn, Christopher Waters
VB Tip: File Sizes, David Mackenzie
April Subscriber Downloads
March 1998
Just-in-Time Instantiation, R.L.Parker
Editorial: VB + SQL Server
Algorithm Alley: Map Coloring, Rod Stephens
VB Letter: Show Method, Jean-Marc Talloen
Determine Location of Windows’ Start Menu, Deborah Cooper
VB Explorations: Domain Controllers, Dan Appleman
Managing SQL Server Databases with Visual InterDev 1.0, Susan Pershke
Dr VB5: Macro Emulator, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Find Out What’s Going on with Your Database, Christopher Waters
VB Letters: More of Last Day of the Month
March Subscriber Downloads
February 1998
Taming the Windows Registry with Class, Jon Kilburn
Editorial: Pull Updates
Algorithm Alley: Beyond Flatland, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Mixing it up with the Mixer, Steven Roman
Tip: Registering OCX/DLL files from within VB, Debbie Cooper
Dr VB5: Links and Dates, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: At your Service, Chris Waters
Tip: Determine System Language, Debbie Cooper
Tip: Flat Toolbar, Friedrich, Saurer
Tip: Call Fortran Routines, Karen Watterson
February Subscriber Downloads
January 1998
Interface Inheritance in VB5, RL Parker
Editorial: New Challenges
Tip: 2-Gig Limit, Bill Vaughn
Algorithm Alley: To Infinity and Beyond, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: An Editorial Challenge, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB5: Functions, Tasks, and Control, Bill Shadish
Tip: Modifying the Most Recently Used Documents List, Debbie Cooper
Enabling Your UserControl to Receive Mouse Messages at Design Time, Grant Wickman
Cool Tool: Zip Your Data Dynamically, Christopher Waters
Tip: Dispaly a Form with a Tiled Background, Debbie Cooper
Letter: Praise for Dan, Brad Walker
Tip: Combo Box Loading, Carl Ganz, Jr.
January Subscriber Downloads
December 1997
A Serious Collection, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: VB Everywhere
Algorithm Alley: Fractal Frenzy, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Ethernet, Ethernet, Wherefore art thou, Ethernet, Dan Appleman
Dr. VB5: Last Day of Month and Filenames, Bill Shadish
Creating a Snap Grid in Visual Basic, Jon Kilburn
Cool Tool: See the Forest from the Trees, Christopher Waters
Tip: A DLL For Volume Handles in Windows 95 and NT, Wallace Foulkes
December Subscriber Downloads
November 1997
Forms as Objects, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Visual Component Manager, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Filter Fresh, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Creating Multi-threaded VB5/SP2 Applications, Dan Appleman
Direct your Apps with ODBCDirect, Rick Dobson
Build a Status Box Server, Chris Zhao, Ph.D
Cool Tool: Information, Please, Chris Waters
Quiz: MS Codenames, Karen Watterson
Letter: Printer Dialog Box API, Jerry Delgado and Debbie Cooper
November Subscriber downloads
October 1997
Processing HTML Forms with ASPs and SQL Server, Bennett McEwan
Editorial: Too many Databases? Karen Watterson
Event Logging, John Lynn
Tip: Object Serialization, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Two for One Special, Dan Appleman
Letter: SmartLab Isn’t, Andy Barclay
Tip: Find that Lost File Quickly, Debbie Cooper
VB4’s and VB5’s FindFirstFile and FindNextFile, Debbie Cooper
Dr VB5: Are You Tired of the Registry? Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Keep ‘Em Honest, Chris Waters
Letter: Getting Help from the Internet
October Subscriber Downloads
September 1997
Using VB5’s Multi-Threading, Rob Macdonald
Editorial: Grows your Skills, Karen Watterson
Tip: Parents and Backward Navigation, Grant Wickman
MRUs with Class, Deborah Cooper
VB Explorations: The Hard Way, Dan Appleman
Letter: The Many Faces of Drag, Bryan Tubbs
Algorithm Alley: It’s Just an Expression, Rod Stephens
VB Letter: More Book Ideas, Wallace Foulkes
Dr. VB5: Strange Doings, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: “Could You Spell That, Please?” Chris Waters
Tip: Cursor Colors: NT vs. Win95, Paul Adamson
September Subscriber Downloads
(Note - the issues described below aren't available as PDFs.)
August 1997
Data-driven programming with VB5, Carl Ganz Jr.
Editorial: Moving Toward Server-Side Programming, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: The Big Event, Dan Appleman
Algorithm Alley: As the World Turns, Rod Stephens
Letter: Dan’s Assessment of VB5, Rob Macdonald
Dr. VB5: Boulders, Background, and ODL Files, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: VB5 Does Data Right, Christopher Waters
Creating Shell Links (Shortcuts) in VB5, Debbie Cooper
Laboriously Simple, Matthew Chappee
Letter: Drag and Drop List Box, Paul Moss
August Subscriber Downloads
July 1997
Algorithm Alley: Sort with Class, Rod Stephens
Editorial: The Next Big Thing, Karen Watterson
Tip: Activating Server Pages, Andy Tong
VB Explorations: Cafe de VB, Dan Appleman
Tip: VB5 T-SQL Debugger, Ron Talmage
Steal this MRU Code: Michael Pasikov
Tip: Abbreviated Pathnames, Debbie Cooper
VB + DAO + SQL + Warehouse, Tom Rowland
DataMart Development, John Lynn
Tip: CD-ROM Drive Door, Debbie Cooper
The Short and Long of It, Debbie Cooper
VB Letter: POP3 Mail Help? Chih-Chui Wang
Dr VB5: Upgrade Madness, Bill Shadish
Tip: MsgBox Buttons Your Way, Bill Shadish
June Subscriber Downloads
June 1997
Enumerate Your Data, Mike McMillan
Editorial: 54% of All Programmers, Karen Watterson
Where Do Your Users Want to Go Today? Beam Them There with Hyperlink Programming, Rick Dobson
VB Explorations: The Query that Came in from the Cold, Dan Appleman
Algorithm Alley: Curve Ahead, Rod Stephens
VB Review: WEBOffice, Bill Shadish
Retrieving System Information from Windows 95, Deborah Cooper
DR VB5: Dr VB5 Probles Booksmarks (URLost?) Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Smile for the Camera, Chris Waters
June Subscriber Downloads
May 1997
VB Explorations: VB5: The Heart of the Matter, Dan Appleman
Editorial: Proactive Downloads, Like it or Not, Karen Watterson
Algorithm Alley: Asynchronicity, Rod Stephens
Animating with Objects and Collections, Michele Leroux
Tip: Quickly Collapse All Items in an Outline Control, Debbie Cooper
Binding It all Together, Peter Vogel
Tip: Drag and Drop in Your List Box, Debbie Cooper
Cool Tool: Mask Data Input Clearly, Christopher Waters
Letter
Dr. VB5: Disk Space Blues, Bill Shadish
May Subscriber Downloads
April 1997
More Stupid Code Tricks, Rod Stephens
Editorial: No Foolin’, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: The Four---Not Three---Models for Control Creation Using VB5, Dan Appleman
Getting Started with VB and Oracle, Carl Ganz Jr.
The Word 97 Object Model and VBA, Rick Dobson
Tip: Identify Installed Disk Drives in VB4, Deborah Cooper
Cool Tool: I-Con Do It! Christopher Waters
Dr. VB5: REGCLEAN and CFGBack, Bill Shadish
Tip: VB to HTML, Fast and Easy, Phil Burtis
Bonus Download! Michele Leroux
April Subscriber Downloads
Letter: Mastering CDs and Soundex, Don Culp
March 1997
VB Explorations: What? Another Timer Article? Dan Appleman
Editorial: Upgrade and Beta Blues, Karen Watterson (plus upsize tools)
Create Database Apps with the IDC and VBScript, Rick Dobson
Create Context-Sensitive Object-Level Help in Your Apps, Rod Sparkman
Tip: UNC Filename Bug, Cliff Chen
Tip: Ditch Long Strings, James Lavery
Export VB Recordsets with Ease, Paul Litwin
VB Review: InfoSleuth, Peter Vogel
Dr. VB: Dr. VB5 Keeps on Surfin', Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: Take Control of Your Controls, Chris Waters
March Subscriber Downloads
February 1997
Use a Class to Create Your Own File List Box, Deborah Cooper
Editorial: Waiting for VB5, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: It's Time to Serve Up ActiveX Components, Dan Appleman
The TreeView Control, John Lynn
VBScript Gets Help from its ActiveX Friends, Rick Dobson
Algorithm Alley: A Call to Order, Rod Stephens
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Dr. VB5 Tackles Mystery Icon and ActiveX Controls, Bill Shadish
CoolTool: How Much Do You Tip? Christopher Waters
VB February Downloads
January 1997
VB Explorations: Pop Goes the ListServer, Dan Appleman
Editorial: 1997, Karen Watterson
VB Review: Do You Hate Report Writers? Carl Ganz, Jr.
Dr. VB5: Dr. VB5 Does ActiveX, Bill Shadish
Algorithm Alley: OOI/O: Reusable I/O Objects, Rod Stephens
VB Tip: Invoke the Printer Dialog Box Using the API, Deborah Cooper
Survey Processing in VB, Clark Brady
Cruisin Online, Christopher Waters
CoolTool: GIGO, Just Say No, Christopher Waters
VB Tip: Named and Optional Parameters, Bill Shadish
Subscriber Downloads, Karen Watterson
December 1996
Double Buffering with Class, Michele Leroux
Editorial: VB5CCE, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Your Printer is What? Dan Appleman
Using VBScript with HTML, Rick Dobson
Algorithm Alley: The Traveling Santa Problem, Rod Stephens
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Dr. V.B.: Dislocation, Dr. V.B.
VB Tip: Retrieve the Word Under the Cursor in a Text Box Control, Deborah Cooper
Cool Tool: Eliminate Spelling Errors in Your Programs, Christopher Waters
VB Letter: HLLAPI Questions
November 1996
Should VB Programmers Adopt Java? James W. Cooper
Editorial: Waiting for VB5, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: The Unimess Caper, Dan Appleman
VB Tip: Retrieve a Window's Class Name, Deborah Cooper
VB4 and Inheritance: Doing Without, Richard Curzon
VB Letter: Turn ENTER into TAB, Ralph Owens
Screen Resolutions and Form Resizing, Gary Cornell
Web Ready Reports, Richard Campbell
CoolTool: An Invaluable Desktop Utility, Christopher Waters
October 1996
VB Explorations: A DLL is a DLL is a ..., Dan Appleman
Editorial: Object Wars, Karen Watterson
Automating Fax Covers, Richard Campbell
Tools of the Trade: Developing Multimedia with VB, Steven Hoffman and Naomi Kokubo
Algorithm Alley: Sound It Out, Rod Stephens
A Reusable Error Object, Bill Shadish
Book Broser Curmudgeon (2), Gary Cornell
Dr. V.B., Varying My Position, Dr. V.B.
Cool Tool: Are You an "Official" VB Programmer, Christopher Waters
September 1996
Manipulating the Control Menu with VB, Deborah Cooper
Editorial: VB Everywhere, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: When a Bug is Not a Bug, Dan Appleman
Algorithm Alley: The Seven Percent Solution, Rod Stephens
VBTip: Custom Mouse Pointer, Scot Hillier
An "Inny" Object, Kyle Lutes
Cruisin' Online: Hot Downloads, Christopher Waters
VBTip: Moving a Form, Deborah Cooper
VBTip: More App Bits, Bill Shadish
Dr. V.B.: Rewrite Internet Explorer, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: Win the Programming Games, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
August 1996
Rogue E-Mail, Peter Vogel
Editorial: What Lazy Days of Summer? Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Ship it! Dan Appleman
VBTip: Development Environment Setup, Scot Hillier
Applied Reusability, Phil Burtis
VBTip: Crystal Reports Tables, Richard Campbell
Cruisin' Online: Hot Downloads, Christopher Waters
Make Multimedia Apps More Robust, Rich Berner
Algorithm Alley: Big Things in Little Packages, Rod Stephens
Dr. V.B.: Rewrite Internet Explorer, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: Win the Programming Games, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
July 1996
Build a City and State Loookup Class, Kyle Lutes
Editorial: Trailing Edge is Okay, But..., Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Visual Basic Resource Compiler, Part 3, Dan Appleman
Letters (Garcia RDO Params Float Type, van Wijk Smarter Stupid Code Trick)
VB Programming with ECCO, John White
VBTip!: QueryUnload Event, Deborah Cooper
Algorithm Alley: Anti-Aliasing, Rod Stephens
VBTip!: DataControl, David McCarter
VBTip!: Parameters for OLE Servers, Daniel Mezick
Dr. V.B.: Yes, We Answer Questions!, Dr. V.B.
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
CoolTool: Bar Codes Made Easy, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
June 1996
Alternate Methods of Reporting in VB, Part 3, Richard Campbell
Readme.1st: ActiveX, Karen Watterson
VBTip!: Betware "New", Scot Hillier
VB Explorations: Cheap EXE Tracing, Dan Appleman
A Generic Navigation Engine for Forms, Michele Leroux
VB Letters (David Barker, Richard Campbell, Russell Brown, Ken Jones)
Algorithm Alley: Missing Link, Rod Stephens
A Better Calendar for Your Apps, Giuseppe Cultrera
Dr. V.B.: Data-Driven to Succeed, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: Make VB's Setup Wizard Truly Useable, Christopher Waters
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
May 1996
Building Web Applications with VB, Robert Denny
Readme.1st: Does your Software Suck? Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Resourceful Design II, Dan Appleman
VBTip: NetWare User IDs, Rufus Sheng Jiang
Algorithm Alley: A Room with a View, Rod Stephens
VBTip: Disable Form Tabstops, Dave Robson
Overcoming Single Threads with Asynchronous OLE Automation, Scot Hillier
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Dr. V.B.: You Should Get Out More, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: VB_Addins, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
April 1996
Adding Automatic City and State Lookups to Your Applications, Kyle Lutes
Readme.1st: VB and the Internet, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Resourceful Design, Dan Appleman
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Schedule+ OLE Automation, Ken Lassesen
VBTip: Conditional Compilation, Scot Hillier
Old Dogs, New Tricks, Bill Shadish
Stupid Code Tricks, Rod Stephens
Dr. VB: Testing in Process (&Out)
VB Letter Enrique Nell
CoolTool: Print Source Code the Way You Want to Print it, Christopher Waters
VB World News
March 1996
Tracking that Shelled Task, Marc Staley
DevCons and Code Generators, Karen Watterson
VB Explorations: Classes, Servers, and Inline Code, Dan Appleman
VB Letter: The Unicode Thing (Gary Cornell)
Book Browser Curmudgeon, Gary Cornell
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Algorithm Alley: Side of Hash, Rod Stephens
VB Letter: Too much VB4, Th. Smeets
Control Fax Messages with Caller ID and DDE, Ed Kierklo
VBTip: Run Multiple Copies of VB4, Bill Shadish
Dr. V.B.: International Resources, Thom Verratti
CoolTool: VBTrace, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
February 1996
Creating Collection Classes, Scot Hillier
VBA Sizzles, Karen Watterson
VB Tip: VB 4.0 Message Box, Bill Shadish
VB Explorations: Multitasking, Daniel Appleman
VB Tip: VBCP for Code Coverage, Geoff White
DIBSection, Palettes, and a DLL, Michele Leroux and Bill Ibbetson
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Essence of a Screen Saver, Jason Schulz
VB Tip: OLE Automation, Ken Lassesen
Putting Fatware on a Diet, Eric Brierley
VB Tip: Netscape and OLE, Carl Franklin
Reddick Naming Conventions, Greg Reddick
VB Tip: GoTo Revisited, Gary Cornell
Get the Bugs out with VB, Anthony Karrer
Dr. V.B.: Old Friends, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: PR-Tracker, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
January 1996
Inherit the Earth with VB 4.0 Classes, Rod Stephens
VB Explorations: Is it a File? Or Is it Memory? Daniel Appleman
Alternate Methods of Reporting in VB, Part 2, Richard Campbell
VB Tip: Recovering Bitmpas from VB Project Files, Allan Colby
Client/Server Programming with the AS/400, Jef Sutherland
Cruisin' Online, Christopher Waters
Dr. VB: More State Secrets, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: Mitromar's Date/Time Custom Control, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
December 1995
VB 4.0, File Systems, and Other Stuff, Karen Watterson
Alternate Methods of Reporting in VB, Richard Campbell
Algorithm Alley: Sorting it Out, Rod Stephens
Cursor Chicanery, Bill Shadish
Using Assembler to Speed VB Applications, Dave Navarro, Jr.
Creating Wrappers with VB DLLs, David Fullerton
Class is on the Menu, Deborah Kurata
State Secrets, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: Scoper Out Your VB Projects, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
November 1995
Visual Basic 4.0: The Bottom Line, Karen Watterson
Cruisin’ Online, Christopher Waters
Using WinG and DIBSection, Michele Leroux and David LaCombe
VB Explorations: Cool Win32 Functions, Part One, Daniel Appleman
Multiple Printers in Visual Basic, Richard Campbell
Algorithm Alley: To B or not to B: Rod Stephens (Binary trees)
Tip: Smart File Naming Makes FRMs Easier, Allan Colby
CoolTool: Manage All Those Apps with ProjectSnap, Matthew Leigh
Tip ‘Em Off: Let Users Know Before They Go, Tom Marcellus
Dr. V.B.: Three Pillars of the Global Economy, Thom Verratti
In Pursuit of Idleness, Matthew Leigh
VB World News, Karen Watterson
October 1995
VB4: The Best and the Worst, Ibrahim Malluf
VB Explorations: Windows 95, VB4, and the Secret Art of Benchmarking, Dan Appleman
Cruisin’ OnLine, Chris Waters
VB4: The Future Arrives Yesterday, Dr. V.B.
Executing SQL Stored Procedures, Kirby Angell
Customizable Help for your OLE Objects in VB4, Bill Shadish
Recycler Brings Drag and Drop to VB, Guiseppe Cultrera
Algorithm Alley: Send out the search party, Rod Stephens(binary, interpolation, exhaustive)
Review: Create VBXs with VBXpress, Deepak Agrawal
CoolTool: How to ReSize your Forms, Chris Waters
September 1995
Using C Controls in VB, Eric Winemiller
VB Explorations: Monitoring the Print Spooler, Dan Appleman
VB User Groups
Algorithm Alley: Find the Shortest Paths, Rod Stephens
SHAREMAN: Building your own Network Library for VB, Eric Brierley
Need to Create your own PIM? Maybe Calendar Widgets can Help, John White
The Right Way to Secure your Jet Databases, Paul Litwin
Cruisin’ OnLine, Chris Waters
String (Short)cuts, Dr. V.B.
CoolTool: VB Tips and Tricks, Chris Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
August 1995
VB Explorations: Stop the World I want to Get Off, Dan Appleman
Tip: Does your About Window Do This? Phil Burtis
Algorithm Alley: Tree Trimming, Rod Stephens
Cruisin’ OnLine, Chris Waters
Working with---and around---Crystal Reports Pro 4.0, Phil Burtis
The Right Way to Secure Your Jet Databases, Paul Litwin
Dynamic Table Attaching with VB, Les Gainous
Tip: Fast and Easy VB Button Bars, Jason Cramer
Dr. V.B.: But Does SQL Server Serve Cake?, Dr. V.B.
Cool Tool: VB Data Companion, Chris Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
July 1995
Editorial: The Delphi Challenge, Gary Cornell
Lexically Speaking, Dan Appleman
Tip: Flash-free Toggling of Screen Element Appearance, Allan Colby
Ask Dr. VB: : Put that in your Popcorn Cob |, Thom Verratti
DDE: Reliable Work Horse or Outmoded Technology? Gary Hunter and Duane Fahey
Tip: Array Contents in the Debug Window, Jimmy Jen
OLE Automation: On the Road to Self-Actualization, Michele Leroux
Breaking through the VB Grid Lock, Michael Bauer
Cruisin On-Line, Christopher Waters
VB Books: An Annotated Assessment, Rod Stephens
Cool Tool: Control Your Graphics with Paint Shop Pro 3.0, Bill Shadish
VB World News, Karen Watterson
June 1995
A Journey into the Unknown, Dan Appleman (finding font info)
Tip: What’s New in that Update? Bill Shadish
Ask Dr. V.B.: Screen Flicker? Bang the Top of the Monitor, Dr. V.B.
Client/Server with VB and SQL Server, David Fullerton
Giving Help a Multimedia Hand, Bill Shadish
CoolTool: Very Cool Tool: Installigence, Christopher Waters
Maintaining a Common code Base for 16-bit and 32-bit Apps, Peter Varhol
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
May 1995
BitBlt Games, Dan Appleman (raster operations)
Ask Dr. V.B.: Register Your Good Questions, Dr. V.B.
Create Fast SQL Server Queries with VB, Ken Moss
Network Know-How, Eric Brierley
Storing field Defaults, Paul Sheriff
Menu Tricks Using the Tag Property, Bill Shadish
CoolTool: Mabry’s WAV Play, Christopher Waters
File Truncation via the Windows API, Phil Burtis
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
April 1995
Tip: Minimizing SQL Server Connections, Bill Vaughn
Configuring Forms and Controls at Runtime, Part 2, Dan Appleman
Ask Dr. V.B.: Readers Answer Their Own Questions, Dr. V.B.
The Quest for Animation in the Digital Twilight Zone, Michele Leroux
Top Download Explained, Part 2, Christopher Waters
InfoNable to CompuServe, Sundar Rajan
Palette-Handling in Visual Basic, Hugh Ranalli
Tip: Will your App Run Under Windows 95? Karen Watterson
Tap the Power of Object Variables, David Burch
Cool Tool: Mabry’s FLabel, Christopher Waters
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
March 1995
Configuring Forms and Controls at Runtime, Part 1, Dan Appleman
Ask Dr. V.B.: Send Windows a Message, Dr. V.B.
The Quest for VB Animation Continues, Michele Leroux
Top Downloads Explained, Christopher Waters
A View from Diamond Head’s ImageBasic, Bob Fisher
Efficient Programming with Extended State Diagrams, Doron Drusinsky-Yoresh
Cool Tool: Create Easy Status Bars with StatusFX, Christopher Waters
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
February 1995
The Quest for VB Animation, Michele Leroux
Tip: User-Definable Paswords, Allan Colby
VB Explorations: Drawing Text, Dan Appleman
Ask Dr. V.B.: Roll Out the System, Dr. V.B.
Create 3-D Dialog and Message Boxes, Sundar Rajan
Beep and Sing with WaveMix, Bill Shadish
Smart Application Architecture, Doraiswamy Thodla
Tip: Speed Data Access, Steve White
A VB Developer’s Lunchbox, Deepak Agrawal
Cool Tool: TIPS.VBX, Christopher Waters
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
January 1995
Building Multimedia Application, Hugh Ranalli
Tip: Position your Windows, Christopher Waters
How Many Bugs can You Find? Dan Appleman
Ask Dr. V.B.: Forms, Nulls, Print, and Other Solutions, Dr. V.B.
Program Multiuser Apps, Rod Paddock
Do Cool Stuff with Phones, Karen Watterson
Tip: Find Files with DIR$, Mark Needham
Cool Tool: Add Calendars to your Apps, Christopher Waters
Tip: Avoid Corrupt EXEs, Christopher Waters
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
December 1994
It’s About Time!, Dan Appleman
Ask Dr. V.B.: Right-Click, Pop-Up, Drop-Down Gutters, Dr. V.B.
Take a Snapshot and Create Wallpaper, Bok Nan Lo
Cool Tool: Create 3-D Effects Easily with BVCtl3D, Christopher Waters
Cruisin’ Online: Popular Files from America Online, Karen Watterson
How Gupta Developed VBX Support in SQLWindows, Juan Oropeza
Tips: Microsoft Releases Article on Memory Management in Visual Basic, Christopher Waters; Count Those Frames, Karen Watterson
VB World News, Karen Watterson
November 1994
Keep Track of Tasks with TOOLHELP.DLL, Daniel Appleman
Ask Dr. VB: Take a (Valid) Date to the Fair, Dr. V.B.
Cruisin’ Online: Hot files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
Business Rules: The (Visual) Basics, Hank Fay
Track User Activity with a Login System, Paul D. Sheriff
VB- A Tool for Debugging DLLs, Sundar Rajan
Notes ViP and Visual Basic: How Different Are They?, Bill Shadish
Cool Tool: VB Help Writer: A Help Authoring Tool for VB Programmers, Christopher Waters
Tips: Find Your Screen Resolution, Christopher Waters; Archive Your Help File Topics, Conan Callen
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
VB World News, Karen Watterson
October 1994
Cool Tool: Create Windows Help Files with Visual Help, Jon Fleming
Enumerations: A VB Case Study, Daniel Appleman
Create Netware-Aware Front-End Applications in VB, Sundar Rajan
We Sit a Spell on Ed’s Porch, Dr. V.B.
Go Beyond Microsoft’s Outline Control with Tlist, Bill Shadish
Time to Get With VBA, Paul Jimenez
Access Lotus Notes with Brainstorm’s VB/Link, David Bourgeois
Get Ready for the VB Certification Exam, John Edward Miller
Error Trapping Made Easy, David Ladd
Tips: Is Your Shift Pressed?, Christopher Waters; Right-Justify Your Text with Proportionally Spaced Fonts, Allan Colby; Solve AppActivate’s “Gotchas”, David Bourgeois
Cruisin’ On-Line: Popular Files from CompuServe’s MSBASIC Forum, Christopher Waters
Take the OCX Plunge, Daniel Appleman
VB World News, Karen Watterson
September 1994
Take the OCX Plunge, Daniel Appleman
Use Data-Aware Controls in Real-World Applications, Roger Jennings
Ask Dr. V.B., Dr. V.B.
The How and Why of VB and Version Control, Daniel Rogers
Cool Tool: Easy Error Handling with VB/Rig, Christopher Waters
Which Has the Power: OLE Controls or OLE Containers?, Conan Callen
Tips: Shadish’s Hair Puller No. 1: ODBCing an App, Bill Shadish; Stop, Oh Yes, Wait a Minute, Mr. Program!, Kenn Nesbitt; Print Graphs with Other Data Using the PTK Graph Control, Allan Colby
Premier Issue 1994
Master the Fundamentals of Focus, Daniel Appleman
VB Developer Interview: Alan Cooper Talks about the Origin of Visual Basic
Access Lotus Notes Databases with VB, David Bourgeois
Use WinWord as a DDE Server for VB Client Apps, George Mair
Create Reports with New Crystal Reports 3.0 Custom Controls, Allan McMordie
Cool Tool: Create Intuitive User Interfaces, Christopher Waters
Tips: Try This Simple, Efficient Floating Help Box, Sundar Rajan; New MSCOMM.VBX; Plan Ahead for International Apps, Allan Colby; A Debug Aid; Don’t Pass up This Inexpensive Tool! (ODK); Want to Call Another Form’s Procedure?; Copy SQL from Access to VB, Christopher Waters; How to Join the VB Internet List
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Good Reads
I think Jay Nathan's 9/05 MSDN Magazine article on how you can use fuzzy lookups and groupings for data cleansing is worth the read.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/09/SQLServer2005/default.aspx
Similarly, the fifth issue of Microsoft Architect Journal's online publication has a half dozen good articles. I especially liked the one on topic maps.
* Metropolis and SOA Governance, Part 1: Towards the Agile Metropolis
* An Introduction to Topic Maps
* Value-Driven Architecture: Linking Product Strategy with Architecture
* Process and Criteria for Evaluating Services-Based Integration Technologies
* Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing
* Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Choosing Alternate Transports for Web Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj5intro.asp
Posted by karen at 05:29 AM | Comments (0)
October 31, 2005
Binding Data to WinForms Controls in VB 2005
Paul Kimmel's article on Binding Data to WinForms controls in VB.NET 2.0
http://www.codeguru.com/columns/VB/article.php/c10815/
Another article some of you might enjoy is "Custom Xml Serialization and Storage of Classes in Standard Configuration Files' by Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D.
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20051013.asp
Posted by karen at 04:09 PM | Comments (0)
AJAX.NET
17-page article by Karl Seguin, "ASP.NET Spiced: AJAX." Karl presents three examples, and C# and VB.NET versions of project code are also available. http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/ASPNetSpicedAjax.asp
Related Resources
* AJAX.NET download. http://www.schwarz-interactive.de/
* Bertrand Le Roy's ASP.NET blog site with info on Client Callback. http://weblo\gs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2005/07/14/419436.aspx
Posted by karen at 09:05 AM | Comments (0)
October 29, 2005
Juval Lowy on Generics
Four great FAQs about Generics from MVP Juval Lowy
* Generics FAQ: Fundamentals
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/Fundamentals.asp
* Generics FAQ: Best Practices
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/BestPractices.asp
* Generics FAQ: Tool Support
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/ToolSupport.asp
* Generics FAQ: .NET Framework
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/NetFramework.asp
For more from and about Juval, see my June 1, 2005 entry on his article about .NET Framework 2.0's new transactional model.
Posted by karen at 01:31 PM | Comments (0)
October 09, 2005
Reads, KBs, and Downloads of Potential Interest
- Good article on hacking Gmail. http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=161383,00.asp
- Matthew Deiters' 11-page article on Aspect-Oriented Programming. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/AOPArticle.asp. Related: http://www.aosd.net/.
- How to use regular expressions to constrain input in ASP.NET. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp
- Rob Howard's article on page navigation in ASP.NET 2.0. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/10/ExtremeASPNET/default.aspx
- Dave Thomas' "Refactoring as Meta Programming?" http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2005_01/column1. Related: his keynote on aspect-oriented programming at http://www.aosd.net/archive/index.php.
- Interesting advice from Michael Hammer at Information Week's Fall Conference: IT staffers need to become more collegial, aggressive, and able to handle ambiguity. Says Hammer, that means banishing rhetoric like, "'If they don't know what they want, I can't write the spec.'" http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171000476
- Wei Meng Lee's feature on the new Application Settings in Windows Forms in the current issue of Visual Studio Developer. http://www.pinpub.com/vb
KBs
- 322796 How to pass a BLOB as a parameter to an Oracle package by using the .NET Managed Provider for Oracle.
- 319692 Winsock control may fire the DataArrival event after the Close event.
- 831262 "Out Of Memory" Error Message When You Compile or Debug an ActiveX DLL in VB6.
- 325568 WM_WININICHANGE Message Causes a Deadlock in Multithreaded VB6 apps.
- 828671 If You Disconnect One Control from a Data Source, All Controls Are Disconnected.
- 903898 How to use the Windows Forms NotifyIcon component in VB.NET to display an icon for an application in the notification area.
- 905131 SQL 2000 may experience errors and stop responding, and error messages may be logged in the error log, when you try to perform a write operation that isn't logged.
- 905616 You receive error messages when you try to back up a SQL 2000 database to a tape drive after you format and use the tape drive for backups in Windows Server 2003.
- 906566 How to use XQuery to query XML data from a SQL Server 2000 database in SQL Server 2005.
DOWNLOADABLE
- Code and PPT from Joe Stagner's excellent Webcasts on protecting your connection string and hardening your SQL Server. Includes an example that uses PDSA's DataProtectionCS (and other) classes. http://www.joeon.net/. Related: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4045124
- Patterns & Practices' Composite UI Application Block (CAB) Oct CTP. http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/releases/viewuploads.aspx?id=22f72167-af95-44ce-a6ca-f2eafbf2653c
- NDoc code documentation generator for .NET (C# of VB.NET via add-in). http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/
- Microsoft Federated Identity and Access Resource Kit for Sept 2005 CTP. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=66734401-4988-4ded-9876-3dc10223052c&displaylang=en
- ASP.NET "Atlas" Website template. http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/future/atlastemplate/default.aspx
- SQL Server 2005 JDBC beta 2 driver. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx
BROWSABLE
- Good discussion of features that are in SQL Server 2005 and/or earlier versions of SQL Server that you won't find in SQL Server Express. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166492. Related: SQL Express vs. MSDE at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166387(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
- Winter Corporation's Top Ten databases (would you believe 100+ terabytes?) http://wintercorp.com/
- Jeremy Moskowitz's excellent site about Windows and Linux integration. http://winlinanswers.com/. Good FAQs and free chapters from his book. http://winlinanswers.com/book/resources.php
- Microsoft's Patterns and Practices security Wiki. http://channel9.msdn.com/security. Related: Microsoft's categorized (How To's, Checklists, etc) security guidance site. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp
- Dominick Baier's excellent site on security for .NET. Includes sample code illustrating secure remoting using the NegotiateStream class. www.leastprivilege.com/default.aspx
- UserScripts.org. http://userscripts.org/
- C# Corner. Example from "Algorithms" section - Mike Gold's article on using genetic algorithms to come up with Sudoku puzzles. http://csharpcorner.com/
Posted by karen at 04:36 PM | Comments (0)
October 08, 2005
23-Page White Paper on VB 9
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/languageenhancements.asp