This user has contributed 98 articles, 162 code samples and posted 2859 messages in our discussion forums.
Blogs
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This is the blog of Dan Thomas, Web Developer, Flash Developer, Business Owner, Sunny Bournemouth Resident 
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A blog from the SharePoint Development Team
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The blog of a VB MVP, Cory Smith
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The feed from the vbCity Community Blog web site.
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The blog of a key architect of ASP.NET
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Random thoughts from a UK Student and .NET developer
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Briksoftware develops applications for Mac OS X. In our blog you will find free snippets of code, tech talks and opinions.
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Articles & Tutorials
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Performance tips and hard-core tricks for ASP.NET AJAX, not for the faint hearted, from Omar Al Zabir, CTO of PageFlakes. .
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This series covers a wide variety of topics including new user interface features, kernel features, networking features, management features, and more. Most of the samples will be in ATL, but where appropriate I will illustrate how the new Windows Vista functionality can be used by managed code..
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You can't actually print a document from javascript, but you can open the print dialog to the user..
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Sometimes we want to offer the visitors a preview of the image a link points to. Depending on PHP and GD availability, this script will offer a preview link showing or creating a thumbnail of the linked image. The visitors can see if the link is worth opening without leaving the current page..
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Mike takes an in-depth look at getting to grips with building ASP.NET AJAX controls. Learn about the framework of getting your JavaScript code..
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In the second part in this series on OpenXML, Tim Anderson explains how the new Packaging API helps you work with Office Open XML documents..
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Is Silverlight the way to make your browser based applications as rich as a desktop application? Dave Wheeler thinks so and put the case for sophistication in Silverlight. In this second article, we look at events and move rapidly on to animation and other powerful presentation effects..
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Most of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection – how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs? .
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A very common requirement in an information system is to have a function (or several functions) where the users are able to search the data by selecting freely among many possible criterias. In this text I will look at various techniques to solve this problem..
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Some great tips and tricks using CSS - from applying more than one CSS class to an element, specifying a different style sheet to be used for printing, image replacement techniques and more..
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Completely new to Visual Basic? Overwhelmed with the confusing instructions? Read this tutorial and get a head start - learn what VB is, what you can do with it, how much it costs, and how to get star.
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In this first article of an SWT and JFace series, find out how to create a simple Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) application using Java™, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. Also learn how to create simple SWT GUIs using basic controls and layouts..
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Explore the source of the common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. This third part in a series describes how the different naming conventions between J2EE technology and .NET can cause difficulty in Web services interoperability..
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Till now we were talking about non-mainstream languages to use Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Learn what exactly AOP is, and how you can go about getting this functionality in C#..
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Just as XML itself has evolved, so the XML related classes in .NET Framework 2.0 have changed. Alex Homer finds out what's different..
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op..
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Your Web applications can be the most important and most vulnerable entry point into your organization, and, as such, ensuring adequate hacker protection in your Web applications can be critical. This article discusses some of the issues..
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Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don't require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference..
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ASP.NET 2.0 brings enhanced performance and many new features that make the web developer's life easier. Alex Homer takes you through what's new..
Code Samples
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Learn how to use the free iTextSharp library to load a PDF form, populate some dynamic fields, and then save out a flat PDF file..
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How to retrieve file information such as file size, modified date, and its attributes in VB.
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How to join/append two strings together in VB.
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How to create a running total column in an SQL query.
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How to get the number of visitors currently online.
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How to get information about the visitors browser.
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How to split up a recordset into multiple pages using ADO and ASP.
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How to detect missing images with client-side javascript.
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Grab this re-usable code for retrieving the computer name.
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How to get the visitors IP address from within your ASP script.
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Resolve a host name to it's IP address, and an IP address to its host name with this re-usable class module.
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Retreive the windows version, service pack and build number using this code.
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How to read the contents of a file from ASP using the FileSystemObject.
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A neat module that lets you read and write INI files.
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How to determine whether the system is using Large Fonts or Small Fonts.
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How to create a mouse out event.
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How to open a file, url or email address with its default program.
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How to play a MIDI (sound) file.
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How to play a WAV (sound) file.
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How to generate a DLL Base Address using Rnd.