April 2006 - Posts
Learn how to loop through all the controls in a form and perform a common operation on all or some of them.
Did you know you can integrate Windows Forms into your existing MFC-based applications?
This sample shows how to extend BindingList so that it can be updated on a background thread.
In this article we will study how to access a simple database driven Web Service from a Desktop application. Here I have a DbHelper class which has openconnection(), closeConnection, getDataTable, getDataset etc methods, and ConnectToDb() and getDataSet() Web methods in the Web Service.
Playing audio and video is easier in version 2 of the framework, but the basic capabilities available still leave a lot to be desired. Fortunately, the free MediaPlayer component provided here demonstrates a more feature-rich solution to your multimedia needs—and it's compatible with all versions of the .NET Framework.
For a lot of Information Workers Microsoft Office is their “comfort zone”, they know the Office applications from top to bottom. This article is showing how you, as a developer, can bring business data into this “comfort zone” by using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005.
In this article my aim is to guide a relative Visual Basic .NET "newbie" through the process of creating a simple Photo Browser application. We will gradually build up the application, examining a number of the techniques available to you in Visual Basic .NET including creating a custom thumbnail control and creating instances of it at run-time.
Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier.