VB- CodeProject

by dontumindit

An Easy Way To Query a Database

by Andrew Rissing

The following samples should take advantage of using statements and furthermore built in features of the ADO.NET framework. Furthermore, if you open a connection, make sure you open it at the latest time possible and close it as soon as possible.Edit: While I was originally not trying to...

by FZelle

You are both wrong with the DataAdapter.Why do you think there is an overload with the querystring and the connectionstring?public DataSet select_query(string query, string con_str){ try { using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(query,con_str)) { ...

by woric

The sample code provided by Andrew Rissing is a huge improvement over the original, but incorrectly catches the exception and displays a MessageBox. (Andrew correctly points out this is not a good idea.)A better solution is to allow the exception to fail:public DataSet...

An Updated Batch Image Resize Tool

by PrimeCoder

Nice,How about adding a couple of other methodspublic static void Parameter(IDbCommand command, string naam, object value){ IDbDataParameter par = command.CreateParameter(); par.ParameterName = naam; par.Value = value ?? DBNull.Value; ...

by rmliu

Resize either images or canvas only, resize batch images

An Workaround for Double Click on Treeview Checkbox

by Thava Rajan

This tip is used to fix a workaround for a bug in double click on checkbox

Animations made easy in WPF.

by Bhanu Pratap Singh Rathore

Animate Controls with ease using the MAnimation class developed by myself and can be used by anyone.

Apps Key in DevExpress GridControl

by Alexandros Pappas

Display of a context menu when pressing the Apps key in a DevExpress GridControl

Arduino Code Printing

by David Vanson

A small application to pretty print Arduino code with syntax highlighting

Arrays Generator

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Generate your arrays using a GUI tool

ASP.NET Conditions in Markup Using Bound Data

by AspDotNetDev

You can't use an if statement in a bound code block, but you can still use conditions in your markup based on bound data.

ASP.NET Conditions in Markup Using Bound Data

by AspDotNetDev

C# version

ASP.NET Multiple File Uploader

by Chamila Nishantha

Multiple uploader control for ASP.NET applications

ASP.NET timed page reload

by James Gabel

ASP.Net timed page reload on button click/form submission.

Async Await with Web Forms Over Multiple Postbacks

by Tristan9

Better use async / await in web applications

Auto Clearing Label by Extension

by veen_rp

This message will self destruct in 5 seconds...

AutoComplete ComboBox Control From Database

by alrosan

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

by Eduardo Yost

Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.

Avoid invalid namespace error while desrializing class

by r verma

Following trick will also provide a way how to handle/pass objects to web service through a web application as in web applications developer will not be able to update proxy class (old trick followed in case of class library). When you try to serialize your class let say using Binary...

Avoid Out-of-memory Troubles with Very Large Lists(Of T)

by veen_rp

Big lists (>1,000,000 items) can cause out-of-memory errors raised by .NET. Manage them by a List of List(Of T)

Avoid Sending Mail from the Wrong Account

by bradyguy

Don't send your mail out using the wrong account

Azure Table: Clearing Out A Partition (Tip)

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to clear out a partition in an Azure table

Back and Forward button for MDI Parent form to traverse through opened MDI child forms

by Sarath Jayachandran

Backup & Restore of SQL Server database using VB.NET

by Patil Kishor

Backup & Restore of SQL Server database using VB.NET

BackUp and Restore with SMO of SQL Server 2008

by Hernán Hegykozi

This tip will show how to perform a backup and restore database from an application in VB.NET 2010.

Backup Stored Procedures in SQL Server

by CorvetteGuru

Backup Stored Procedures in SQL Server.

Basic Base64 Encoded Image Viewer

by sreeyush sudhakaran

VB.NET code for Base64 Encoding and Decoding of Image files

Be Careful in Printing 'Error:' in Custom Build Events of Visual Studio

by Zhuyun Dai

Your build will fail if you print 'Error:' in your custom Build Events of Visual Studio.

Be Kind, Rewind

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Thoughts for writing code for the next developer to use (or how to apply the golden principle to code)

Beginner's Guide: How to Implement log4net in VB.NET Web Application

by Robby Tendean

Simple implementation guide for log4net in a VB.NET web application.

Bell Curve, Gaussian Function, or Normal Distribution

by Tim-bot

Simple calculation to determin a value at a percentage along a bell curve. Also with an offcenter curve intersection thing....

Better URL Building with Flurl

by tmenier

An introduction to Flurl, an open-source .NET library for fluently building URLs

Big Design Up Front or Emergent Design?

by Zebedee Mason

Or why not both? This shows how.

Binary Code Compatibility

by wesamq

This article explains how you can identify any compatability issues for a legacy code written in VB, or any other language that produces TLB (Type Library) files for its interfaces.

Bitmap to Memory Stream and Vice Versa

by Prashant.Tiwari

Must required functions for any Image manipulation task.

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

by Matthias Böhnke

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

Bulk Copy/Insert from a CSV file to SQL Directly

by Bhishma Anil Kajaria

Browse and Copy data from your CSV file to SQL directly without any Windows application...

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

by Robby Tendean

How to bypass SSL certificate validation checking and restore it

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

by Pascal Hubert

Looks like what I use!ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = New RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(Function() True)

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI and WinAPI: How to Programmatically Press Mouse Button, and Check if Mouse Button or Keyboard Key Pressed

by Emiliarge

Using WinAPI functions - GetAsyncKeyState and mouse_event

C# / VB.NET and WinAPI: How to Access Window of Other Application

by Emiliarge

Using FindWindow() and WindowFromPoint() to identify window, and SetWindowText(), MoveWindow(), SetForegroundWindow(), EnableWindow() to interact with it

C# Storable Box Control 1.4.0.4

by Darkencrow

A multi-drawer style collapsable UI container

Call Date and Time Zone Property[Shell Script]

by Pratik M Mahajan

'Call Date and Time Zone Property[Shell Script]'Tested in XP not on Vista'Take one button and write following code in its click event:Public Class Form1Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.ClickShell("rundll32.exe...

Call Form with string name ( convert String to Control)

by hajivalie

Call Form with string name

by AspDotNetDev

Call a series of functions until the return value meets a condition without a chained-if or short-circuiting.

by cechode

Sorry, but could not resist :)Being that we we started with select case (in the launge), I felt that this was missing both the initial condition and the action to perform for the case that got hit.So given this:static Action SelectCase(T conditionValue, List<System.Tuple<Func<T,...

by AspDotNetDev

VB.NET Version (C# Version)Thanks to cechode for inspiring this tip/trick. Suppose you have the following functions:Function Step1() As Boolean Return TrueEnd FunctionFunction Step2(ByVal val1 As Integer, ByVal val2 As Integer) As Boolean Return val1 = val2End...

by Member 4694807

Sorry, but I don't like adding additional artificial elements like function arrays . I would code it as following:If isok(Step1()) OrElse isok(Step2(1,1)) OrElse isok(Step3() OrElse isok(Step4() OrElse isok(0+1) thenend ifFunction isok(ByVal rc as Integer) As Boolean ...

by FDW

I do think the approach is over complicated, but in some cases there may be (a small) benefit. As an alternative I would offer:First version (no common test):((Action)(() =>{ if (!Step1()) return; if (!Step2()) return;}))();Second version (common...

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

by Andreas Gieriet

This is an alternative for "Call Functions Until One Meets Condition"

by SibeeshKV

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

Capturing Audio and Replay It Using Direct Sound in VB

by Farai Chikwetu

This tip describes how to capture audio and then replay it using Microsoft Direct Sound DLL.

Cause Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog to display in Details mode

by hground

I have several applications that open a SaveFileDialog, but it always comes up in "List" mode and I had not found a way of configuring the dialog to display in "Details" mode. This is a kludgy work-around, but it seems to work OK. After Declaring the dialog in your code and just prior to calling...

Centralise a Form on the Current Screen

by _Matt_Wilkinson_

How to centralise a Form when using multiple screens

Change Font & Size of Crystal Report Dynamically

by Patil Kishor

Change font & size of Crystal report dynamically

Change Height of ALL Rows in DataGridView Simultaneously

by Yumashin Alex

This tip describes how to change DataGridView behavior concerning row resizing

Change Registry Settings and Broadcast Changes (Refresh Desktop and Windows Explorer)

by NIkradsystem

[solved]

Changing Type

by yozi

Sometimes you need to change objects type to another type.Convert.ChangeType does this job for you. But when you use Nullable(Of T), this function throws an exception.You can use the following function to change type(including Nullable types) safely... Private Function CType2(ByVal...

Changing Windows Parental Controls in VB.NET

by djdynamix

A little workaround to enable a VB.NET application to read and alter the WPC settings for any user.

Check the input Query syntax from VB.NET

by bluesathish

If you build the Query executer tool in a VB.NET, you need to check the input query syntax before getting the results. This tip gives you a small idea of how to get the syntactic errors from the VB.NET front end screen by calling already created stored procedure.

Choose an Element (Material Science)

by Dallas Adams

A DLL with a few classes and functions to provide data within Matlab on the elements from the periodic table.

Chord Shape Generator

by ha_asgag

Using number systems in statistics

Clear All textboxes text in VB

by Mithun Thakur From NICE Computers

Clear All textboxes text in VB

Clear Text On Windows Aero Glass

by Rixterz123

How to get text to show perfectly clearly on Aero glass

Clearing Controls on Submit

by sudevsu

Clearing the controls on Submit

Click or DoubleClick

by terry.corridan

This code processes a Click or a DoubleClick event.

Click or DoubleClick

by herves

This is an alternative for "Click or DoubleClick".

CodeGen - Making XML Comments

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Utility class for adding XML comment to auto-generated code

CodeGen - Turn a CodeCompileUnit to VB.Net (or C#) code

by Duncan Edwards Jones

A quick-and-dirty function to display the VB.NET code resultant from any given code compile unit

ComboBox DataSource AddItem Extension

by B.O.B.

A simple extension to add an item that has a data source bound to combobox.items

Commenting

by Anshul R

Shortcut for Commenting

Communication Library Files - NetTools | Network Population

by Chris Jorna

Populating NICs, online (IP and MAC) and offline IPs in a network environment

Communication Library Files - TCP Client/Server

by Chris Jorna

Source code and demo on general TCP client & server library mainly usable for / tested on SICK lidar devices

Communication Library Files - UDP Broadcast

by Chris Jorna

Communication library files - UDP broadcast

Complete Open XML Spreadsheet in VB

by Frankxcid

Class that allows you to programmatically create an Open XML Excel spreadsheet

Complex Math Library for C# and VB.NET

by Karl Tarbet

Complex math library for C# and VB.NET

Computing Easter Date - VB Function

by Jose Xavier

VB Function to Comput Easter Date

Concatanate Report Pages into one Report (XtraReport)

by Chamila Nishantha

Adding report pages to create one report

Connecting to MySQL databases using VB.NET

by Hassantga

How to connect to a MySQL database using VB.NET.

Consuming the Holidaywebservice2 with Visual Studio 2010

by Jules Harcourt

How to use the excellent Holiday web service in VB.NET using VS 2010.

Conveniently Remove a List of Items From Another List

by Abdul Quader Mamun

Convenient way to remove items from list when items exist in second list.

Conversion Between All .NET Languages

by Anshul R

The Perfect Translation/Conversion of Code

Convert a file path to a UNC Path

by TomQuinn

A simple function used to determine if a file path refers to a network drive and if it does convert it to use the UNC path

Convert a file path to a UNC Path

by Prerak Patel

Here is an API way using WNetGetUniversalNameImports System.Runtime.InteropServices _ Private Shared Function GetUName(ByVal Path As String, ByVal outName As Integer, ByVal bObj As...

Convert a string to UTF-16

by Ehsan Valizadeh

This Function allows you to convert a normal string to UTF-16 encoding in VB.NET. You can find tools like Unicode Code Converter that operate like ConvertToUTF16 function.' if you pass this parameter to function : "I'm from Azerbaijan."' the return value is :...

Convert a string to UTF-16

by Daniel Leykauf

Same function and little bit easier:Imports System.Runtime.Remoting.Metadata.W3cXsd2001Class Converter Public Shared Function ConvertToUTF16(ByVal str As String) As String Return New SoapHexBinary(System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetBytes(str)).ToString End...

Convert CIDR formatted string to its IPAddress Range representation

by nogChoco

''' ''' Converts a CIDR formatted string to the IPAddress-range it represents. (Function handles IPv4 only). ''' ''' CIDR formatted string, example: "209.85.134.0/23" ''' A List(Of IPAddress): (0)=StartIP,...

Convert CSV File to data table

by EddeKreij

Convert csv file to a data table

Convert CSV file to XML with DataTable in Visual Basic

by Emiliano Musso

A quick method to convert a CSV file in XML

Convert DataSet or XML to JSON using VB.NET

by Jesse Fatherree

Convert DataSet or XML to JSON using VB.NET

Convert filesize (bytes) according to highest possible size scale (KB, MB, GB, TB, PB)

by bEGI23

Convert filesize (bytes) according to highest possible size scale (KB, MB, GB, TB, PB).

Convert LINQ to Entity Result to a DataTable

by Mohammad Al Hoss

Convert LINQ to Entity Result to a DataTable

by jonx

Very good stuff. Learned me a lot about how to access to the physical structure of the query.There is also a CopyToDataTable : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386921.aspx[^]And for the record here is a C# version:protected DataTable EntityToDatatable(IQueryable Result,...

Convert Number To String (English and Arabic)

by Mahmoud El-Baz

It converts 123 to One Hundred twenty three

Convert Numbers to Words Neatly

by Normz Antonino

This tip shows you how to convert numbers to words neatly.

Convert Text Represented Number to Numeric String

by FatzBomb

How to convert a written number to a numerical value anywhere in a string.

by Alan Burkhart

by Ron Beyer

You may want to take a look at String.Join:Your code can be compressed to:Dim str as Stringstr = Chr(34) + String.Join(Chr(34) + "," + Chr(34), arr) + Chr(34)(My VB skills are a bit lacking, so the syntax may be a bit off, but you get the idea).

by Alan Burkhart

I'd never used String.Join before. Didn't even know it was there. :laugh: However, part of the idea is to skip all empty lines AND not end up with an empty string at the end (which my first code didn't address) AND insert the quotes. To get all this done with String.Join, it still took 8...

Converting an Image to grayscale without using unsafe code

by Prerak Patel

Pretty simple to ignore blank entries..Dim s As String = """" & String.Join(""",""", txt.SelectedTextt.Split(vbCrLf.ToCharArray, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)) & """"

by charles henington

Convert an Image to grayscale without using unsafe code

Converting and Compressing a Dataset to Byte array

by ahsan sarfraz

Convert a Dataset to bytes array and then compress that array.

Converting Geographic Coordinates

by veen_rp

Geographic coordinates from decimal degree to degrees, minutes & seconds. And vice versa.

Cool Check Status Indicator Panel for Windows Forms

by bobishkindaguy

Thread safe control displays status with icon according to type of message. Tutorial on sending messages around your application using delegates.

Cool List for Windows Forms

by bobishkindaguy

A simple list control that prevents double entries, doesn't drop down, has icons to add and delete items

Cool TrackBar for Windows Forms

by bobishkindaguy

TrackBar that can work with time values, has a nice spotlight for the current value, and won't allow its value to change when the user moves their mousewheel.

Coordinate Transformation Using Proj4 in .NET

by veen_rp

Use and benchmark of coordinate transformation using the C++ proj4 library in VB.NET and C#

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

by Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

Copy tables between servers with smo - different collation

by Morten Lossius

Copy tables between servers with smo - different collation

Copying DataGridView Contents To Clipboard

by miteleda

Copy DataGridView contents to clipboard regardless of current selection.

Crafting on Hex String

by Nosey Parker

Crafting on hex string

Create a MySQL Database Connection Tester in VB.NET

by OldUser101

A walkthrough of building a MySQL Database Connection Tester application in VB.NET

Create Animation using Separated Images

by Ruzli999

How to create Animation using separated Images

Create Documentation for SQL Server Tables

by Alexandros Pappas

This tool reads the descriptions of the columns of the SQL server and creates a Word document using SoftArtisans' WordWriter.

Create Microsoft Access Database Programmatically using VB.NET

by Lau Han Ching

How to create Microsoft Access database programmatically using VB.NET without Microsoft Office

Create PDF from Images using VB.NET

by Fahmi Noor Fiqri

Create PDF from Image files using VB.NET and PDFSharp library.

Create QR Codes with Google Web APIs

by Emiliano Musso

How to create a UserControl to show QR Codes created with Google APIs

Create Shortcut VB .NET Library

by Florin Pănescu

This library is for creating shortcut .lnk & .url

Create Windows Form Application without Visual Studio

by Zdenek Jagrik

A template for Windows Form Application written and compiled without Visual Studio.

Creating a BOTTOMMOST Window

by Florin Gherghel

How to create a BOTTOMMOST window (Win32 and .NET).

Creating a folder the advanced way [VB.Net Code]

by TechKidd

This trick is on a intermediate/advanced level.

Creating a Playlist Control

by MattSparks

Resuable Playlist Control for Use with COM Media Player Objects Such as Window Media Player

Creating a WCF Service with JSON Data and Using it on iOS

by Melih Mucuk

Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS

Crystal Reports 2008 Dynamic Connection to Embedded Reports

by Mik Wadstrom

Simple way to use Crystal reports as embedded dynamic printable reports

CSV Data Management: Unleashing the VBA Arrays Power

by W. García

Turn Microsoft Office applications into a masterpiece for cleansing, reshaping, managing and analyzing data from CSV files. No more intermediary spreadsheets, no more headaches due to DLL updates that make your implementations stop working, the pure VBA solution is here.

Cumulating values with LINQ

by Wendelius

This is an alternative for "Cumulating values with LINQ"

Custom Application Configuration XML files Warning

by DaveAuld

Here is a lesson I learnt while working with custom application settings in XML files and Visual Studio

Custom DataGridView (Nested DataGridView / TreeGridView)

by Mang Irpan

This control is a datagridview that can contain control as its node, and it can contain unlimited node control

Custom MenuStrip and A Form Without Borders (Full Control)

by Bob Stoom

Working code of the custom MenuStrip on the LinearGradientBrush constructor base. And how to control Form without borders.

Custom Message Box Using Thread That Closes Automatically

by Surendra Adhikari SA

Implimenting a message box that closes automatically using thread.

Custom MessageBox with checkbox

by Avatar2400

This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.

Customize DataGridView row without iteration

by ambarishtv

Data Entry Form made Easy, Enabled / Disabled controls on Data Entry Form

by Tajwer Jalal

Data Entry Form made Easy, Enabled / Disabled controls on Data Entry Form

Data validation in WPF

by DonWim

how to implement data validation via regular expressions in a WPF application

Databinding Examples in WPF for VB.NET

by The Myth

Databinding examples in WPF for VB.NET.

DataGridView Column Width Grow Only Sizing

by DaveAuld

A simple way to create a grow only Column Width routine

Datagridview with Multisort

by MarioRainer

Here is a simple way to sort the datagridview by Multi-Columns

DataGridView: Make Enter Key Move to Next Column

by Jαved

DataGridView: Make Enter Key Move to Next Column

DataSet to Excel File Conversion using ExcelLibrary

by Robby Tendean

ExcelLibrary implementation sample to convert DataSet to Excel file in VB.NET

DataSet to Excel File Conversion using ExcelLibrary

by Robert Hutch

Hi,another alternative is this Excel C# / VB.NET component that has limited free version that can be used in commercial applications and unlimited professional version.Here is an Excel VB.NET code how to export DataSet to Excel:Dim ef = New ExcelFile()For Each dataTable As...

DataSet to String to DataSet

by Alan Tuscano

Converting DataSet to String to DataSet

DataSet to String to DataSet

by #realJSOP

This is an alternative to "DataSet to String to DataSet".

DataTable from Excel

by Igor Krupitsky

This article shows how to get ADO.NET DataTable out of Excel

DataTable Merge Performance

by Alexandros Pappas

This project measures performance of the DataTable.Merge method.

DBReport: DataBase Reporting Tool for DataBase Administrator

by Patrice Dargenton

Database Administrators need to compare database structures. DBReport shows only (and all) significant information that makes sense for daily administrator work.

Dealing with a SerializationException: The type System.Windows.Forms.CurrencyManager is not marked as serializable.

by Alejandro Gaio

A simple solution to a serialization problem with IBindingList-implementer classes.

Dealing with long file names in VB.NET

by terry_tldsb

A class using Win32 Unicode calls to handle file names/paths longer than 254.

Decimal To Fraction

by Anshul R

Converts a given decimal number to fraction

Desktop Manager - Organize Your Desktop

by Ivan0001

You have too many icons on your desktop? Well, this will solve your problem. With this program, you can organize your desktop, create categories and add programs/documents to category.

Details on Transactionscope exception handling

by Brian Risley

How to do transaction scope exception handling.

Detect Change In ActiveControl

by TnTinMn

UpdateDefaultButton - Allows detecting change in ActiveControl

Determine selected RadioButton in a Group of RadioButtons

by karenpayne

This code permits a developer to determine if a radio button is selected in a container such as a panel or GroupBox using syntax similar to TryParse.Requires Requires Framework 3.5 or higherExamplePrivate Sub Button1_Click() Handles Button1.Click Dim SelectedButton As New...

Dictionary Sorting and Inverse Duplication Removal

by CorvetteGuru

A few fun Dictionary utiltities.

Direct print for microsoft_report (RDLC)

by M. Rawan

direct print for microsoft report (RDLC) without preview

Directly Hook to System Events using managed code (C#,VB.Net)

by joejames111

Hook to System Events without libraries or anything complicated.

DirectShow Hangs on Pause – Solved

by vertex4343

DirectShow Hangs on Pause – Solved with WNDPROC message

Disable 'click' sound when accesing WebBrower control

by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

Depending on system preferences (in Control Panel/Sounds), the .NET WebBrowser control (just like Internet Explorer) may produce a click sound when changes are made programmatically to its DocumentText property, which is irritating to the user.There are two ways to avoid this:1. Use...

Disable 'click' sound when accesing WebBrower control

by emolina

Public Sub DisableSound() Dim keyValue As String keyValue = "%SystemRoot%\Media\" If Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major = 5 AndAlso Environment.OSVersion.Version.Minor > 0 Then keyValue += "Windows XP Start.wav" ElseIf Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major = 6 Then ...

Disable 'click' sound when accesing WebBrower control

by Member 8208766

To me the second method was problematic. After searching, I found an apparently equally good solution:webBrowser1.DocumentText = text;or in your case:webBrowser1.Document.Write("Hello, world!");from here:...

Disable 'click' sound when accesing WebBrower control

by pipiscrew

nah, try the light one ://at FormLOAD WB.Navigate("about:blank"); //at treeview event private void treeview_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e) { WB.Document.Body.InnerHtml = (dR["html"].ToString()); }

by OriginalGriff

Disable the Close box on a form

by Brian Pendleton

I could be missing the point here, but I believe you could also override the OnClosing event.protected override void OnClosing(CancelEventArgs e){ // allow default behavior.. base.OnClosing(e); // test for whatever... // on fail, e.Cancel = true; // set some...

by charles henington

I have used this in the past and have also posted as one of my tip tricks :-} One tip trick that I still like with CreateParams is changing parms.ClassStyle |= 0x200; to parms.ClassStyle = this.Handle.ToInt32(); which will render the form invisible which is much easier than overriding...

by jwalker343

See a couple of Alternate ways & Original Thread here:Disable Close Button from Title bar of a Window[^]

Displaying Database Information in ASP.NET

by Simon_Whale

This is purely a VB.NET version of what Griff posted Public Const CS_NOCLOSE As Integer = &H200 Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams Get Dim params As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams ...

by peymanabolghasemi

by peyman abolghasemi , Display DB info

DLL Registry Control Easier

by DX90

A simple library to control registry easier

DMath is DirectXMath for All

by Jose A Pascoa

Part 1 - Using DMath from C#

Double Buffered List View

by Neil Siegfried

Double Buffer a List View Control to eliminate all flickering associated with it.

Download Mail Details With attachment using IMAP

by Sujith Karivelil

This article Describes Connectivity to Gmail using IMAP, and also guide you to download and save mail content along with attachment.

Drag and Resize - Borderless Form

by bEGI23

This code allows to drag and resize a borderless form!

Drag drop multiple selected rows of datagridview with left mouse button

by PWFisch

Drag drop multiple selected rows of datagridview with left mouse button

Drag Multiple Controls with Shadows Effects

by Vincenzo Barone

This tip shows how to make a multiple controls drag effect in winform.

Draw to Screen without using API

by a_pess

Draw to Screen without using API

DRY-ing up your Code with Delegates

by Thomas Corey

Using the Action(T) delegate to reduce repetitive coding

DSL Modelling - Adding a Tool Tip to the Connectors

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Make a nice diagram experience for your domain specific language by adding a smart tooltip to your connectors

Dynamic Sorting in LINQ and VB, Part 3: Pagination

by Thomas Corey

Dynamically sort query results using LINQ expressions and reflection with sorting and paging using VB.NET.

Dynamic Tab Extended Version

by Jo_vb.net

An extended version of the Dynamic Tab article

Dynamically append an XML document

by marc9889

This code demonstrates how to append an XML document. We will add a new element and some inner text. Call the function, provide arguments for the path to the file, the name of the child node, the element name, and the text to add. The file is opened, appended, and saved. The function returns a...

Easier FTP Management Class (.dll)

by Member 12032084

.dll for making the FTP management with VB.NET easier

Easily Zip / Unzip Files using Windows Shell32

by Bashar Tahir

Easily zip / unzip files using Windows Shell32

Easy Dynamic Formula Evaluation

by DerekT-P

Use .NET function to evaluate your custom formulae

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with Nested Levels

by Robert Bettinelli

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with nested levels

Easy Way to Implement Mobile Site in ASP.NET

by Prince Tegaton

This entails how to easily add mobile website feature to your ASP.NET website/app

EF Code First Fluent Configuration of Abstract Entities

by cjb110

How to configure columns of abstract entities.

Electronic Signature with Canvas and JavaScript

by Miller Nguyen

This article will show you how to implement a complete solution of electronic signature by using HTML5 canvas in ASP.NET (VB).

Embed HTML in a Word Document using Aspose.Words

by Brandon Rohrer

Embed HTML in a Word Document

Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.NET Application using CEFSharp

by The Myth

Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.NET application using CEFSharp

Emulating HTML Text boxes Value Attribute in VB.NET

by Mauricio Orejuela Bohorquez

Emulating HTML Text boxes Value attribute in VB.NET text boxes

Enable DataGridView DoubleBuffered Property

by GabrieleTronchin

Increase DataGridView performance

Encrypting Applications web.config Using .NET Framework Utility

by Umarfarukh7

This tip is about encrypting web.cofig file using aspnet_regiis utility of .NET Framework.

Encryption/Decryption Function in .NET using the TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider Class

by kadu.sumit

String encryption/decryption functions in .NET.

Error Summary Email with XSLT and XML in a SSIS Package

by Carlos Bocanegra

This tip describes a useful way to create and send an email with a summary of the exceptions from a file validation process in a SSIS package using a XML and a XSLT template.

Event Sourcing Facilitates Mock-free Unit Testing

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How an event sourcing / projection based system allows you to fully unit test the business code the application will use without mocks

Excel Macro to Generate Database Insert Script

by Anurag Gandhi

An Excel macro that generates SQL insert script that can be executed against database directly

Excel Molar Mass Calculator - Molecular Weight

by NewPast

Excel, Pure VBA Macro: Molecular Weight/Molecular Mass Calculator

ExcelDNA Packing Tool Manifest Writer

by JamesFaix

Automated build tool for ExcelDNA projects to add referenced libraries to packed ExcelDNA add-in

Exception Handling Library

by Anthony Daly

A simple library for dealing with unhandled exceptions, with email support.

Expanding / Collapsing Data Grid View

by The ANZAC

A simple and modifiable approach to collapsing and expanding grouped data within a datagridview custom control

Export C++ to VB.NET

by Ozan Müyesseroğlu

If you want to export strings in C++ to VB.NET, build your function like this:BSTR __stdcall expfun(void){ char* cp_test = "Hi World!"; CString cs_test; cs_test.AppendFormat(L"%s", cp_test); return cs_test.AllocSysString();}and in VB.NET:Imports...

Export Data to Excel with formatting in web

by Ravi Kumar Mishra

Data export from data table or dataset to Excel with formatting.

Export DataGridView to Excel

by Michael Rosqvist

How to export a DataGridView to Excel.

Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET (Updated)

by jeffery c

How to export and import wireless settings using Netsh in VB.NET (updated)

Exporting Filtered Data from DevExpress Dashboard Viewer Object

by hawk3434

A class to export the data from the DevExpress dashboard viewer object

Exposing Class Members from .NET to Visual Basic 6

by Jayson Ragasa

Expose those class members written in .NET, in VB6

Face Detection with 10 Lines of Code - VB.NET

by Dejan Mauer

Probably the easiest way to detect faces in images by using Accord.net framework

Fast Calculation of Week Days Between Two Dates

by Emmanouil Gimissis MSc ICSD

Fast calculation of week days between two dates using DateDiff

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by ZamirF

Can we simplify it by: (This essentially passes only two numbers). public int GCD(int value1, int value2){ int max = 0; bool gcdFound = false; int counter = 1; //Make sure both numbers are atleast 2 or above if (( value1 <= 1 ) || (value2 <= 1)) return...

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by jfriedman

/// /// Find the Greatest Common Divisor /// /// Number a /// Number b /// The greatest common Divisor public static long GCD(long a, long b) ...

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by Mauro Leggieri

It is better to do this:public static long LCM(long a, long b){ return (a / GCD(a,b)) * b;}To avoid overflow on big numbers.

FFMPEG Video Converter with Progressbar VB.NET

by David Vanson

How to make a video converter that shows the conversion progress to the user using ffmpeg

File renaming algorithm to mimic Windows copy+paste renaming

by atamata

File renaming algorith to mimic Windows copy+paste renaming

File2XL : Open a csv file into MS-Excel with pre-formatted cells

by Patrice Dargenton

File2XL lets you open any text file into MS-Excel

FileLoadException in InitializeComponent in production PC

by Menelaos Vergis

FileLoadException in InitializeComponent.

Fill a ListBox with Text of an Enum

by aaroncampf

Filtering and Hiding Tree Nodes (WinForms)

by TMSxCodeProj

Hiding/Showing TreeNodes and Filtering them in Winforms TreeView Control

Finally Understand String.Format()

by Mr.PoorEnglish

Explain the instruction-sections of the placeholders within a formatstring more clearly than MSDN-Documentation does

Find Text Inside Gridivew Cell

by prashant chalise

Get the text present inside tablecell in both visible or hidden mode using VB.NET

Find total weeks in a given month

by Rajesh Londhe

Its needed to work with different factors of date. To find out total number of weeks in months is one of important task in it.

Finding Properties in Objects and Write and Read to them

by Marc Koutzarov

Sometimes, it is useful to know if an object has a certain property and then fill it by only having the propertyname as a string at hand.

First day date in week based on particular date

by Enver Maroshi

Find first day of week containing given date

First day date in week based on particular date

by Eskern

public static DateTime GetFirstDayOfWeek(this DateTime date) { var dfi = DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo; var firstDayOfWeek = date; while (firstDayOfWeek.DayOfWeek != dfi.FirstDayOfWeek) firstDayOfWeek=...

First day date in week based on particular date

by twehr

public DateTime GetFirstDayOfWeek2( DateTime date) { return date.AddDays(-(int)date.DayOfWeek); }

First You See Them. Then You Don’t. Now You Will.

by dgDavidGreene

How to find and link config and other files from other projects within your solution.

Fixed or Sticky header or ASP.NET webpage

by Wild-Programmer

Fixed or Sticky header or ASP.NET webpage

Fixing the Time Bar on Outlook 2013 Calendar

by bradyguy

Outlook 2013 does not advance the current time in the calendar view; here is a hack fix.

Fixing Unregistered .OCX Files in Running Legacy Application on Windows 10 (64-bit)

by Southmountain

How to install and register .OCX components for legacy application

Format a textbox for currency input (VB.NET)

by shavinder

Format a textbox for currency input (VB.NET)

Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description

by OriginalGriff

Normally I keep information like this in a text file, in a folder called "How To Do It", as it is handy to have around, and too much work to search for each time I need it, but too much detail for me to remember if I don't use it often. Formatting a DateTime for display:DateTime.ToString()...

Function to execute SQL script via Sql *Plus from VBA

by byapparov

Introduction...

General function for all DML operations using vb.net and oracle stored procedures

by nan49

'All business logic access to the database can make use of this 'function if one is using a stored procedure.'--------------------------------------------------------------Public class classDbAccess#Region "DML OPERATIONS USING ORACLE STORED PROCEDURE" 'This take the necessary...

Generate a PDF document from exported stream of a crystal report

by lidialee

I have a report which can be viewed in Crystal Report viewer in VS. Client needs to generate a PDF file with a click of a button and the PDF should pop up upon finishing exporting and let the client decide where to save the file.'vb.netImports...

Generate a PDF document from exported stream of a crystal report

by atverweij

The last part can be written much easier in VB:Private Sub msGPDF_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles msGPDF.Click Dim Stream As IO.Stream = objRpt.ExportToStream(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat) Dim Buffer(CInt(Stream.Length)) As Byte ...

Generate Markdown From Your Nuget Package

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Generate markdown from your nuget package

Generating Unique Contrasting Colors (in VB.NET)

by Gregory Morse

Generating Unique Contrasting Colors

Generic Mapper and Validator from DataReader to Custom Class in VB.NET

by Juan F. Paleo

Map a DataReader from any database to a custom Class in your VB.NET Project and validate that content is "correct"

Get a Collection of All Running Excel Instances

by JamesFaix

Get a collection of all running Excel interop Application objects (not just the active one)

Get a list of physical disks and the partitions on them in VB.NET the easy way

by pdoxtader

Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.

Get an SQL Server blob field and show it in an PictureBox using VB.Net

by Willem Hijlkema

SQL Blob field into picture box

Get Better Performance in Dotnetnuke Framework

by Trung Nguyen Son

How to analyse and tune your dotnetnuke site to get best performance.

Get Images, Links, and Website Source (Browser Extras)

by User 7711251

Get images, links, and source code from a website.

Get NTP Time (and Extras)

by Doug- VisualBasic VB.NET

A quick Function to get UTC / NTP time

Get Physical Path of Application in ASP.Net [For Beginners]

by Toniyo Jackson

For Beginners

Get Selected CheckBoxes from container

by karenpayne

Returns all checked Checkbox controls in a Windows Form container

Get TinyMCE Value from Server-Side in ASP.NET 4.0

by AspDotNetDev

Using TinyMCE is fairly simple, but attempting to access the value entered by the user in ASP.NET 4.0 presents with some problems.

Get Viewable Text From Textbox

by Ajit Amare

Get the viewable text for your textbox.

GetLastError Error Codes

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

GetLastError error codes

Getting all the ip-addresses on subnet and filtering by availability

by Nosey Parker

How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses

Getting and Setting Windows System Audio Volume

by Mike Meinz

Demonstrates two functions to retrieve the current Windows System Audio Volume and set Audio Volume.

Getting more from your enumerations

by Gregory Gadow

With LINQ, you can retrieve an enumeration's metadata, such as its minimum and maximum values and whether it contains a given value.

Getting publishing information for a ClickOnce deployment

by Wendelius

This is an alternative for "Getting publishing information for a ClickOnce deployment"

Getting the External IP Address

by Huseyin Atasoy

A very simple and short way to get the external IP address

Getting the one and only Type of an Object

by Sander Rossel

How to check an Objects Type, ignoring all subtypes, in C# and VB.

Glass Message Box in .NET

by Gehan Fernando

Custom glass message box for WinForms development.

Glass Style ProgressBar

by Manoj K Bhoir

A Glass style progress bar

GMaps Control Simplified in VB.NET

by Len van den berg

GMaps Control Simplified in VB.NET

Good Universal Paramerter and Stored Procedure Execution

by Robert Bettinelli

Check this for a good universal way of running stored procedures..

Handling Application Settings

by Michael_Davies

Handling large numbers of application settings

Handling events in google calendar using google API v3

by Sujith Karivelil

This article will help you to create, update and delete events/ appointment in google calendar from your web application.

Handling Menus and Toolbars Using MDICommandSupport Class Library

by Robert Gustafson

Simplifies working with ToolStrip-type menus and tool bars for MDI-parent and other forms; also works with ToolStrip-type context menus. Also handles help requests for menu and toolbar items.

Handling problem-child webparts

by marc9889

Hello World, Basic Server/Client Example of WCF

by Hasan Habib Surzo

Basic Server/Client Example using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming

Hide Report Group Tree in WPF

by Kanwal Shehzad

Hiding ReportGroupTree in WPF is a little bit tricky, as there is no simple property or method to do this.

Hide Report Group Tree in WPF

by Amey1202

In WPF, just set the ToolPanelView property of CrystalReportViewer to None. That is enough.

Hide Report Group Tree in WPF

by Colin3

Using the SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.Viewer.dll, the property ShowGroupTree is not available.To Hide the GroupTree as a default, set the property .ToggleSidePanel to SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.Viewer.Constants.SidePanelKind.None.e.g.With _viewer .IsEnabled = True ...

Hook Unmanaged Processes Using VB.NET DLLs

by Simon-Benyo

Hooking unmanaged processes using VB.NET.

How to Add JS Version before Referencing JS File to the Page

by Junell Zenarosa

Updating referenced scripts realtime

How to Add the Missing Byte Shifter Operators to a VB.NET Netduino Project

by David Weaver

How to add the missing byte shifter operators to a VB.NET Netduino Project

How to check if a file exists on an FTP server

by Pete Mourfield

Describes how to check for file existence on an FTP Server using VB.NET

How to complete your programming homework assignment

by Richard A. Dalton

A short program that demonstrates some fundamental programming techniques that every student should understand.

How to connect with different types of DataBase?

by Manoj K Bhoir

How to connect with different types of DataBase?

by Wendelius

As a general rule of thumb, I'd suggest browsing http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^] for connection strings against popular data sources.

How to create a Google Heatmap in VB.NET

by Michael Rosqvist

A small sample showing how to create a Google Heatmap in ASP.NET/VB.NET

How to create a navigation-wizard with a Windows Form Project

by Mark Springer

Allow navigation - forward, backward, branching, and loops with a few changes to your existing projects

How to create a task in Windows Task Scheduler

by Mike Meinz

Source code to demonstrate the creation of a new task in Windows Task Scheduler.

How to Create Control Array with Event

by PdotWang

Add to Layout, and Add Event

How to create Rounded UserControl using Vb.Net

by Manoj K Bhoir

How to Create Show / Hide Details Dynamically in a DataGridView

by Tino Fourie

Catering for user needs in a dynamic manner using a DataGridView

How to Create the Customized Kendo Auto Complete as a Shared Control into ASP.NET MVC using VB

by Systematix Infotech

How to create the customized Kendo auto complete as a shared control into ASP.NET MVC using VB

How to declare a variable in VB.NET without using the As type

by Patil Kishor

How to declare variables in VB.NET without using the As type.

How to Delete Selected Items of ListView and ListBox (Snippets)

by PdotWang

I have some lessons learned on the topic.

How to Design an Identification Card (ID Card) Print Program using Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 2000, 7 or Later?

by Lai Taiyu

Designing an identification card (ID Card) print program using Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 2000, 7 or later

How to detect if an image is a transparent GIF

by Ajitchahal

This is quite useful if you are building a crawler or need to download images from public sources. Transparent images can be easily discarded.

How to determine the CD/DVD (optical) drive letter

by Mike Meinz

How to use .NET Framework to determine the drive letter of the CD/DVD (optical) drive.

How to display or hide standard button cues.

by priyamtheone

How to dynamically retrieve results from a LINQ Query

by -james

Iterate through the results and extract using system.reflection

How to Edit ListViewItems Directly

by dapeacenforcement

Easy way to edit the right ListViewItem (Row/Column) after MouseDoubleClick.

How to enum SQL Server instances in network

by Maciej Los

This tip is desired for those who want to list all available SQl Server instances that are in a network.

How to Export Data to Excel in VB.NET

by Alireza C

I want to show how we can export data from data table to Excel simply.

How to fix "LocalDB - Requested Login failed"

by Ed Nutting

How to fix LocalDB / SQL Server: "Cannot open database "XYZ" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ABC"

How to Fix Missing the ContentType Bug in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 When using XDomainRequest and POST Requests

by Peter BCKR

Fixing missing ContentType-Bug in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 when using XDomainRequest and POST requests

How to get EXE associated with a File Extension in the Registry

by Mike Meinz

Function returns exe name and command line for the provided filename and extension.

How to get File Name from Full file Path

by Koshy Panicker John

File Name from Path

How to get File Name from Full file Path

by Simon_Whale

imports system.iodim Filename as string = "C:\Users\Sony\Desktop\Readme.txt"dim FileInfo as new fileinfo(filename)'this gets the filename and extension e.g. readme.txtmessagebox.show (Fileinfo.name)'this gets the extensionmessagebox.show (Fileinfo.extension)'this gets the...

How to hide information in an Image

by Tino Fourie

Use an image to store passwords to be used to Encrypt / Decrypt information

How to kill any process using VB.NET

by sid2x

Kill any process using VB.NET.

How to List all Files in Directory as hyperlink

by dhamenha

One day i created many aspx files in one directory, then I wanted to browse those files without going and clicking each one of them, I decided to write small function to create a hyperlink for each file. I thought someone else might benefit from the code, here it is: strDir =...

How to Lock Windows NT Workstation

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Introduction How can you lock your Windows NT based Workstation programmatically? To do this, you just need a little basic knowledge on how to use user32.dll. Here you will find a function name as LockWorkStation() and you need to know how to call this function. A sample example with the...

How to Make Your Own Gmail Notifier Using VB.NET

by Hadrich Mohamed

This tip shows you how to make your own Gmail Notiifer using VB.NET

How to Mouse Hover Fade Effect

by Florin Pănescu

This is how to achieve mouse fade effect when mouse is hovered in/out on control inherited.

How to Release COM Interop Objects so the Called Program Can Exit

by Mike Meinz

The COM Interop Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) is a "Black Box" that creates references to memory that need to be released before the called program will end.

How to Remove Characters from a Numeric String

by Prerak Patel

How to remove characters from a numeric string

How to remove characters from a Numeric String:

by Syed Wayez Ahmed

How to remove characters from a Numeric String:

How to Return/Serialize JSON in VB.NET

by The Myth

How to return Json in VB.NET in multiple ways

How to Secure Your Application with Matching Processor Id Complete [the DLL source code]

by skhurams

the source code is available

How to select an initial value for a DropDownList in MVC3 App

by Kethu Sasikanth

How to select an initial value for a DropDownList in MVC3 App

How to Send Lync Instant Message in Plain Text

by Michael Rosqvist

This tip discusses how to send an instant message in plain text to a Lync receiver.

How to Show or Hide Controls Dynamically

by vinodkumarnie

Show or hide controls through code behind or through JQuery

How to sign data with SignedCMS and signature check

by Rolando CC

Shows how to sign a string using a PFX certificate to create a CMS/PCKS#7 signed data. Also, shows how to take the signed data and compare with the original text to check sigh validity.

How to Use EPPlus in VB

by Neha Ambasta

This tip describes how to convert the data table/grid into Excel sheet.

How to: Get Data from Multiple Workbooks using One OleDbConnection?

by Maciej Los

This tip shows how to get data from multiple workbooks using one OledbConnection.

How-To Create a CLR Function with EffiProz Database

by arith silva

EffiProz(www.e...

HugeInt - N Digit Arithmetic Class

by Anshul R

A class for N-Digit Arithmetic

Implement Split A/B pages in your ASP NET project

by TheCardProject.co.uk

Quickly set up the ability to serve up several pages and record which was served in SQL Server

Implementing CTPs in Excel 2010 and 2013 with Excel-DNA

by Philippe Herremans

This tip describes a VB.NET program to implement Custom task panes in Excel 2010 and 2013 using Excel-DNA to integrate .NET into Excel.

Implementing IComparable and IEquatable safely and fully

by A. Ganzer

Using snippets to create a full and correct implementation of complex interfaces

Importing Excel Clipboard Data INTO .NET via "XML Spreadsheet"

by Casey Witt

Function for parsing Microsoft Excel "XML Spreadsheet" clipboard DataObject into .NET Array of Objects

Increase productivity with Visual Studio extensions

by Ahsan Murshed

This article gives ideas to developers to increase development time productivity using the free Visual Studio 2010 extensions.

Inject Scripts into a Page in WebBrowser Control

by Herbert Lausmann

Inject a script (JavaScript) into a web page loaded in a WebBrowser control.

Integrate G-MAP in VB.NET Windows Application without API

by TANMAY N

How to Integrate Google map in VB.NET without using any API in VB.NET Windows application

Interfaces to Add Semantic Meaning

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Using interfaces to add sematic meaning to your POCO classes

Interoperability with .NET Platform

by Soufiane Rabhi

Communication between .NET and other programming languages

Introduction to Linq To WMI with Code Generation GUI

by John Wigger

Inverse of a 3x3 Matrix (Excel Minverse Equivalent)

by SREENATH GANGA

.NET Equivalent to MInverse in Excel

iOS6 Cached POST

by Santiago Santos Cortizo

How to resolve cached post problem with iPhone/iPad with iOS6 update.

IPFIREWALL Rules

by Matthew8

A set of rules IPFW can pass or reject depending on the specific nature of the package.

ISupportInitialize.BeginInit problems?

by barrd

Fix an exception related to ISupportInitialize.BeginInit and learn why it happens.

It's True Code

by Sacha Barber

Dim DataGridView1 As New DataGridViewDim TextBox1 As New TextBoxTextBox1.TabStop = what the hell, it makes no sense

It's True Code

by NavnathKale

I dont get why someone what to relate between DataSource and TabStop. Dim DataGridView1 As New DataGridViewDim TextBox1 As New TextBoxTextBox1.TabStop = (DataGridView1.DataSource IsNot Nothing)

Joomla Remote SQL Call -VB.NET Client

by FrankNight

In this tip, I show a set of helper classes useful to prepare and send messages to the SqlXML Joomla component and execute remote SQL calls to your hosted website.

jQuery Slideshow for a selected folder

by drewman5150

Simple jQuery ASP.NET Slideshow

Latitude and longitude

by herves

This is an alternative for "Latitude and longitude"

Launching a VB.NET Class Library from an MS-Office Excel Ribbon

by veen_rp

A simple, step by step tutorial to set up an MS-Office Excel Ribbon, launch your own .NET applications from Excel and interact with the spreadsheet values.

Levenshtein Algorithm in Visual Basic

by Emiliano Musso

How to calculate the distance between two strings according to Levenshtein algorithm

License Keys in VB.NET - Revisited

by maz2331

License Key class to make generating and validating keys easy.

Limited Length Logging

by dirigo

Preventing a log file from growing forever

LinkLabel with Auto URL Detection

by Daniel Leykauf

A LinkLabel replacement with auto URL detection

LINQ Extension Methods for Rescue

by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya

LINQ Extensions methods that may help you a lot

LINQ to CSV

by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya

LINQ to CSV files.

Load a ComboBox at Runtime

by Tim Corey

Learn how to use a dataset object to load a combobox (or other similar objects) at runtime instead of needing to set anything up at design time.

Load datagridview from CSV or TXT File

by maffeinet

A simple code that loads a daagridview from a textfile

Machine Finger Print - The Right and Efficient Way

by Zeev Goldstein

Protecting your work - use the right way to identify your client machine

Magic square in VB.NET

by NikulDarji

Calculating the magic square in VB.NET.

Mail Chimp Add/Update e-mail to List and Subscribe API V3

by Member 551133

How to add, and update an existing, entry on MailChimp list, using API V3. Optionally, you can add to one or more groups easily. Written in VB.NET, but could be easily converted to C#

Make Outlook E-mail and Appointment Alerts 'top most'

by maxitone

Use this if you're working in a fullscreen RDP session - for example - to see new e-mail or appointment alerts

Making a Nice Wait Effect

by MuhsinFatih

Making a nice tailed round effect

Managing Application Scoped Connection Strings

by Juan Davel

Managing Application Scoped Connection Strings

Managing GridView/DataGrid Control Programmatically in Visual Studio (C#) Web Form

by Raphael Adeniji

Many a times, we need to programmatically manage GridView/DataGrid in Visual Studio web applications and this looks very difficult because we do not know what properties or events of the control to use. It may also be as a result of time constraint.

ManhattanPlot

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Manhattan plot in VisualBasic, application of the cross platform VisualBasic in the data science

Master Detail Datagridview

by ganiweecom

How to display Master Detail Views in Windows Forms Datagridview

MBToolStrip and StatusStrip

by Manoj K Bhoir

Why another Tool Strip or Status Strip? The standard ToolStrip/StatusStrip is too limited in functionality and I couldn't find a custom control written that did all that I wanted. This is a User Control with Microsoft Office 2007 Visual Style.

Merge/Split GridView header using CSS and code

by joe_j

Shows how to split a GridView header using CSS and code.

Merging TIFF Images

by Allegra Angelo

Create a multipage TIFF image from images

MessageBox Problem with Large Strings

by Wendelius

When a string longer that 65536 is shown using a message box, the result might be unexpected.

MessageBox Wrappers for Windows Forms

by karenpayne

Use less code in your business logic for messages to the UI

Method Sorting of VB Source Code

by UKAndrewC

Method sorting utility for VB.NET source code

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

by Robby Tendean

A tool for viewing Microsoft Excel BIFF8 binary format

Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Viewer

by Jepy

Replace the last 3 blocks of code with:String.Format("{0:x}", value)

MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero functionality in .Net Compact Framework

by Dave5709

The Math.Round function in the Compact Framework only allows for ToEven behavior, not the AwayFromZero functionality as listed here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.midpointrounding.aspx[^]This code will allow you to emulate the MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero functionality of...

Migrating VB Project (which are using .tlb references) to VB.NET (yellow exclamation mark error in references)

by AshishSaxena19

Migration of a VB project which is using .tlb refrences, to VB.NET

Minimal web.config to use Linq in web projects

by e.bonavero-miller

make sure that web.config contains these config sections: ...

Minimize Form in System Tray

by Pratik M Mahajan

Note that you must select NotifyIcon1 from the ToolBox and set any icon to its icon property plus make 3 buttons or you can write minimize to tray code in the form closing event.Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As...

Minimize Spacing using Regex

by FrostedSyntax

Regex patterns that will condense multiple spaces, tabs or line breaks into a single space, tab, or line break.

Mirror keys for multiboxing MMORPG games like WOW/LOTRO

by joejames111

Raw input 64-bit .NET classes.

Mixing WinForm ListView with WPF

by Jalapeno Bob

Grouping and sorting in a WinForm listview fails in a WPF application unless Visual Styles are enabled.

Most Useful VS2013 Tricks and Shortcuts!!

by Pritam Deshmukh

This tip elaborates few useful tricks and shortcuts of VS 2013 mainly for professional edition (You can find them with Ultimate version too).

Multi Rename of Files

by Allegra Angelo

This tip intends to discuss how to rename multiple files in VB.NET.

Multicultural Code in VB.net and WPF

by Shabra

How to use Resx files to internationalize your code

Multilanguage Switcher from File WPF

by carcabot

Multi Language Switcher Dynamically written in WPF VB.NET using XMLDataProvider

Multi-Line Lambdas in C# and VB.NET

by AspDotNetDev

Lambdas can be composed of multiple lines of code.

Multipage Tiff in color!

by Idle_Force

MultiPanelSwitch – How to Implement a Panel Switch Winforms Control

by Padanian

A panel switch replica, resembling electro-mechanical toggle of a switchboard box

Multiple Event Handling for the Lazy Ones

by Anshul R

Handle code redundancy for many controls in one subroutine

Multiple Event Handling for the Lazy Ones

by Simon_Whale

why not just create a custom handler for all the textboxes? addhandler textbox1.textchanged, addressof textchangedhandler addhandler textbox2.textchanged, addressof textchangedhandler .... 'add additional textbox handlers .... addhandler textbox7.textchanged, addressof...

Multiple Indexers in C#

by Sion Cohen

An elegant programmatic solution for having multiple indexers in C#

MVC HtmlHelper for HTML5 datalist Tag

by Adam A Black

MVC HtmlHelper for HTML5 datalist Tag

My Switch - Windows Form Control

by JoelDz

This tip shows a control for Windows Forms called MySwitch. This is done in Visual Basic .NET 2013.

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic

by rolandomontero

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic, obtaining a data table

Navigate a Silverlight WebBrowser to a URL with a Hash (Fragment Identifier)

by AspDotNetDev

The Silverlight WebBrowser won't navigate to some URL's, but this can be worked around.

New methods of coding (at least for some)

by karenpayne

Using newer conventions of coding in VS2010 and higher

by #realJSOP

One way to guarantee uniqueness and avoid misspelling your session variable names

by bruno1234

I prefer to wrap my session variables like this:public class MySession { public string MyValue { get { return Convert.ToString(Session["MyValue"]); } set { Session["MyValue"] = value; } }}

by AspDotNetDev

This can be automated and streamlined with generics. First, create a SessionVariable class:public class SessionVariable{ private string VariableName { get; set; } private System.Web.SessionState.HttpSessionState Session { get; set; } public T Value { get ...

by Ziad J.khan

You can find a much more advanced version of this here:http://univar.codeplex.com[^]The version provided on the download page is soon to be deprecated by the upcoming version 2.0b however. The latter is available here instead:http://univar.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets[^]

Non-Repeatable Collections

by Erich Ledesma

I came with another one. I happen to love Lambda expressions. The idea is to extend this base class:public class SafeSessionBase{ HttpSessionState _session; public SafeSessionBase(HttpSessionState session) { _session = session; } protected TResult...

by Anthony Daly

Download source - 30 KBDownload library - 5 KBIntroductionThis set of Non-Repeatable Collections has a very simple concept - to only allow one item of each type to be added, meaning that you cannot have duplicate items in the collection.BackgroundAlthough the .NET Framework...

Non-Repeatable Collections

by Eugene Sichkar

Actually .net 3.5 have non-repeatable collection class - HashSet class and ISet interface.

One Guideline Every VB.NET Project Should Follow!

by Sander Rossel

On the importance of Option Strict...

OpenAI Dall-E- Client

by ADemontis

An overview on how to interrogate Dall-E in VB.NET

Opening an Excel File with Multiple Sheets in a Windows Form using EP Plus

by Shivi Gupta Lucknow

Using EP plus, an Excel file is loaded onto a Windows Form with multiple sheets as buttons aligned horizontally below the gird, to give the look and feel of an Excel sheet.

Optimizing linq queries that retrieve a single element

by taha bahraminezhad Jooneghani

Problem around .first() method in EF and a good solution

Parental Control App

by Gun Gun Febrianza

Parental control app.

Parsing an HTML document by using a recursive function

by marc9889

This is an example of one way to parse an HTML document by using a recursive function. In this example, an html document is loaded from a text file, but the code also demonstrates (in remarks) using a web page as a source file.When the recursive function is called, a conditional statement...

Parsing an HTML document by using a recursive function

by marc9889

In response to the request to use a website (instead of a file), the pertinent code is shown below. Note that you will need to replace "www.somewebsite.com" with the website page that you want to capture the source code (HTML, for example) from.Dim webclient As System.Net.WebClient = New...

Parsing an HTML document by using a recursive function

by ac-2008

Maybe this would have saved you some efforts: http://developer.mindtouch.com/SgmlReader[^]. I have already developed a project (Delivery Predictor) with this reader: http://achristov.info/Projects.aspx[^]

Parsing/Reading XML from URL in VB.NET

by Bhanu Pratap Singh Rathore

This tip contains easy steps to extract XML data from URLs in VB.NET

PartnerTech CD-7220 POS Customer Display - .NET Class

by Mike Meinz

PartnerTech provides a 32-bit DLL and a 64-bit DLL for communicating with the CD-7220 Series Customer Display in true USB mode. This tip demonstrates a .NET class that can be used to provide an easy way to access the PartnerTech-provided 32-bit DLL.

Passing DbNull.Value to an SQL Image column

by OriginalGriff

If you try to pass a DbNull.Value to an SQL Image column, you get an exception: "Operand type clash: nvarchar is incompatible with image" - not sure why it's throwing that, but it can be done.

PDF to BMP using Adobe Reader and API Functions

by FranciskaR

Extract pages from a .pdf file and save as bitmaps

Perform a 2D Fourier Transform with the Package mathnet.numerics

by jkluge

How to compute a 2D Fourier Transform using the nuget package "mathnet.numerics"

Permutations of Dictionary Items

by RoarkDude

Generate every permutation of dictionary items.

PHP, VBA and SQL Useful Scripts

by Mirzakhmet Syzdykov

Development process in few steps with the help of scripting software

Pin items to the Start Menu

by jadon1979

Ever want to pin a file to the Start Menu? This is a simple class I built that allows you to do just that. It works on XP, Vista, and Windows 7. I've included a small example at the bottom of this post.#Region " Pinner Class " Public Class smPinner Private _isPinned As...

Plotting a Specific Location on an Image While Zooming In(+) or Out(-)

by Tino Fourie

Retain a plotted location on an image while zooming in(+)/out(-).

Plug-in Architecture To Work for Multiple Platforms/Techs

by Reader Man San

Plug-in Architecture To Work in WinForms MVC + WPF MVVM + ASP.NET MVC + Mobile (Xamarin MVC/PhoneGap MVC) + Win 10 Universal App MVC

Populate MainMenu Dynamically in VB.NET Using Recursion

by Mike_1989

The following code populates a mainmenu within VB.Net dynamically using recursion, until all items are added to the main menu

Possible solutions for an .Net 4 compiler bug that raise an MissingMemberException by acessing the index property of an SqlParameterCollection...

by Peter BCKR

In legacy applications you can get a MissingMemberException bei acessing a SqlParameterCollection if you work with object-variables there are reference a SqlCommand-Instance.

Post-back Targeting

by Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan)

Overwriting the __doPostBack() function to target the post-back form according to eventTarget

Preventing gmail to mark our mails as spam

by Santiago Santos Cortizo

Previewing Image in ASP.NET Image Control using VB.NET

by Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman

This is an alternative for "Previewing Image in ASP.NET Image Control"

Print Direct To Windows Printer (EPOS Receipt)

by Michael_Davies

Printing To Line Printers (EPOS) Using Windows

Print File Size

by chkmos

Print File Size

by SSDiver2112

Here is an alternate I like to use. Private Function TranslateFileSize(ByVal size As Double) As String Try Dim filesizename() As String = {" Bytes", " KB", " MB", " GB", " TB", " PB", " EB", " ZB", " YB"} Dim pow As Double = Math.Floor(Math.Log(size,...

Print File Size

by DaveAuld

You can keep your output consistent with how Windows represents file sizes by using the inbuilt function;StrFormatByteSizeThe following code will dump the files from the root of C:\, Call getFilesAndSizes from a button click or wherever you want. ...

Print to Dot Matrix in VB.NET

by heinrich4J

Print to DotMatrix in VB.NET

Printing Arabic text to POS printers supporting codepage-1001

by loody

Windows OS doesn't seem to support charset-1001 for Arabic characters, the following Tip will provide an example and working VB.NET class to do the translation manually.

Printing Images Quickly and Efficiently to an A4 Page [VB.NET]

by Benjamin Lifshitz

With this code, you can print images quickly and efficiently, using the largest part of the A4 page for your image.

Programmatic Printing

by Zac Newman

Easy to ready printing options for vb.net

Programming Thumbnail ToolBar Buttons in VB.NET

by Ing. Alberto Tognacca

You will learn all the steps for programming a Thumbnail Toolbar with buttons.

Proper, Translatable Pluralization in .NET with MessageFormat

by Jeffijoe

Writing properly formatted, grammatically correct, translatable UI messages

Query Assistant - Connect to Databases with ADO and Execute Queries

by peterswinkels

A Visual Basic 6 program demonstrating how to access databases using Microsoft ADO and how to automate Outlook and Excel.

Query Hierarchical DataTable

by Wendelius

This tip shows one way to query hierarchical data from a DataTable by using an AsTree() method.

Quick And Dirty Dictionary Sort on Integer Value

by DaveAuld

The Dictionary class does not have inbuilt sort functionality and I was looking for a simple way to sort on the Values within the collection.After searching google, it became clear that there are several ways to achieve this, from implementing Lists, using LookUps and even making use of...

Quick And Dirty Option Lists using Enums

by DaveAuld

Using Enum to provide a quick and easy option lists

Quick And Dirty Option Lists using Enums

by ChunkyStool

In C#, I just call ToString to get the name. It's quicker and dirtier...namespace EnumTest{ using System; using System.Linq; enum ListOfChoices : int { Yes, No, Possibly, Never, Pass } class Program { ...

Quick RSS

by Anshul R

Quick way to read RSS

RDP Session Keep Alive

by Michael L L

Keep those RDP sessions alive and unlocked

Read n bytes from the serial port in .NET

by cass3000

Read n bytes from the serial port in .net

Reading/Writing Image Data

by jkluge

Fast reading/writing of bitmap data in VB.NET using pointers

Rearrange day of week and capitalize day names in .Net

by Enver Maroshi

Zero-index will return monday (or any other day based on FirstDayOfWeek in culture)

Receiving response from POP3 mail server

by evry1falls

Receiving response correctly from pop mail server is the first step on receiving emails to your own email client.

Recent tweets

by Prerak Patel

To get recent tweets of any user just with a tag. No code is required.

Region Adapters for Infragitics

by db7uk

Region adapters in VB.NET

REINSTALLMODE=amus

by alisissa

When you are working on a windows application and deploying your solution every now and then, you should be aware on not deleting all files on reinstall like the database file and some files generated by the user.But when changing you application setup project version number you will notice...

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by Dave Paras

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by linebenchmark

Remove all blank lines, containing or not spaces:^:b*$\n

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by Ziv Nitzan

There is also a Visual Studio extention called CodeMaid that has a lot of cleaning options http://bit.ly/diMTaR

Remove duplicate entries from string array

by karenpayne

This VS2008 or higher extension uses a LINQ statement to remove duplicate items from a string array but is not case sensitive, also you might like to leave the sort/order-by in the extension or remove it.ExampleDim Names() As String = {"Bob", "Mary", "bob", "Bob", "Jane", "Kevin",...

Remove Notifyicon from system tray

by Ramanujam Shankar

Remove Notifyicon from system tray while closing the application from external application (killing proccess from another application)

Removing (Deleting) Querystring in ASP.NET

by Toniyo Jackson

Removing (Deleting) Querystring in ASP.NET

Rename Labels to Text Content Plus lbl

by Kayosblade

Quickly rename thousands of labels in a Designer File without manual intervention

Rendering Qur'anic (Complex Arabic) Scripts with Unicode in a PDF

by Gregory Morse

Rendering Qur'anic (complex Arabic) scripts with Unicode in a PDF

Resigning a signed assembly

by Ahmad Dekmak

In this project we learn how to resign a signed assembly with another one of your choice

Resize and Rotate Shapes in GDI+

by Andy De Filippo

Draw a shape-like editor implementing the use of anchors to resize and rotate a selection rectangle

Retain Password Field in ASP.NET Post Back

by Premraj M

Normally, whenever a form is posted backed, the password field will clear. But we dont want it to do that. In that scenario, we can add a little bit of code will avoid the issue.Retain Password In VB.NETProtected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)...

Retrieve information about your IP

by bEGI23

Retrieve information about your IP from a website.

Retrieving the COM Class Factory for Component with CLSID Failed due to the following error: 8007007e

by sanjay30

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID

Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB

by hemantwithu

How to reverse a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB.

Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB

by Prerak Patel

What is new in this age old method? We can use LINQ too.Dim inputString As String = "Reverse me"Dim input() As Char = inputString.ToCharArrayDim result As String = New String((From i As Integer In Enumerable.Range(1, input.Length) _ Select...

Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB

by #realJSOP

I wouldn't create a class for this. I'd make it an extension method, and then do this:public static class String Extensions{ public static string Reverse(this string value) { value = // do your reverse code here; return value; }}// Usage:string x...

Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB

by Mohammad A Rahman

Another way,public static class ReverseStringExtension{ public static string Reverse(this string dataToRevese) { Func reverseFunc = (dataToFunc) => { StringBuilder reverseBuilder = new StringBuilder(); for (int index =...

Reverse of a string without using the Reverse function in C# and VB

by jfriedman

/// /// Reverses an array (Change the type or use SetItem)/// /// The bytes/// The index in the bytes/// The length of bytes to reverseinternal static void Reverse(char[] array, int...

Row Highlighting in WPF Grids

by Markus Wallner-Novak

Short example of highlighting a grid row on textbox got focus

RowHeader Style in DataGridView - Remove Shape

by Ramanujam Shankar

Remove the triangle and star symbol from the row header in a DataGridView.

RSS Reader

by William Dyson

RSS Reader

RTF to HTML - VB.NET

by The Tigerman

Work in progress, but a simple HTML to RTF converter

Run SQL queries on datatables with SqlToDataset

by DerStauner

With this library it is possible to query datatables with SQL commands.

Sample VB.NET Program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube

by Mike Meinz

Provides a sample program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube

Save and Load a DataGrid's Columns Graphical Properties in WPF

by Emiliano Musso

How to save DataGrid column's properties for further re-use

Save Bitmap as Targa-file

by DidiKunz

Save a 32-Bit RGBA-Bitmap in the Truevision Targa Format

Saving Settings

by Anshul R

Saving a form's settings

Saving Settings

by William Winner

Here's an alternate: a custom class that is serializable to store all of that in instead of a single string that you'd then have to parse.Or store it all in an XML file. There are plenty of object-oriented ways to go about this that would be much more readable than just storing it all in a...

Schedule task in Windows 7 with VB.NET

by _Niharika Saxena

Schedule task in windows 7

Scope of Return Statement

by Joshi, Rushikesh

Scope of Return Statement, Reachable Code and Behavior in Finally Block

ScrollBar Control with Different Visual Style using VB.NET 2008

by Manoj K Bhoir

Why another Scroll Bar? The standard ScrollBar is too limited in functionality and I couldn't find a custom control written that did all that I wanted. This is a User Control with Microsoft Office 2007 Visual Style.

Select GridView Row By Clicking Anywhere In Row

by phil2415

How to modify an ASP.NET GridView so that clicking anywhere in a row will select that row.

Send mail using System.Web.Mail namespace

by ManojRajan

This tutorial explains how to send mails with attachments

Sending an Email to Yourself

by Mike 2005

Code to include in a deployment project

SendKeys using ScanCodes to Citrix

by Andrewiski

A modified version of SendKeys to allow sending of keyboard input to Citrix

Serialization for Program Settings

by özk@n

Serialization for program settings.

Serialize objects into XML strings

by Abdallah Al-Dalleh

SET Network Parameters with IPCONFIG and Text Files

by Allegra Angelo

Save, read and text recognition of network parameters

Set the BackColor to SSTab in VB6 (workaround)

by MeritUSA

Set Width of gridview columns dynamically when AutoGenerateColumns=“true”

by Gopal Krishna Ranjan

Set Width of gridview columns dynamically when AutoGenerateColumns=“true”

Setting Enumerators From Questionable Data Sources (for C# and VB)

by #realJSOP

Avoid exceptions when setting enumerators from unknown/untrusted sources.

Setting focus on another application using Process name

by Ramanujam Shankar

How to set focus on another application using the process name

SharePoint - Reading values from items in a list

by marc9889

Extracting a value from a list item in a SharePoint site is frequently necessary, and it comes with a slight twist that some programmers may not be expecting. So, this is an example of a method that works well for most purposes. First, lets identify the site that holds our SharePoint...

Sharing Values Between Two Forms in an MDI Application

by SimbarasheM

SharpCompress Using TreeView & ListView Example

by Florin Pănescu

This example shows how to use SharpCompress library with TreeView & ListView.

ShoppingCart using Gridview in ASP.NET

by headshot9x

How to create ShoppingCart using Gridview in asp.net with code VB

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Dave Paras

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Prerak Patel

Here you'll fine many more..http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/files/Visual%20Studio%20.NET%202005%20Keyboard%20Shortcuts.htm[^]

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Behzad Talebpour

Alternatively, you can erase your closing bracket (}) and VS will format the whole block (between opening & closing bracket). This works only if there is no syntax error in that block.

Show Forms Current Monitor on Dual (or more) Monitors

by Tantum

How to show your forms in the current active display on dual (or more) monitors

Simple .Net progress bar using async/await

by furytrader

Using .Net's Async/Await Framework To Create ProgressBar

Simple Flash Uploader

by M.Ardekanian

A simple and easy way to implement uploading file with progress info to an ASP.NET page.

Simple Word Document Viewer

by hussam.it

Simple Word Document File Viewer

Simplest way to implement irregular forms in .NET

by Nejimon CR

Make irregular splash screens without writing a single line of code!

SimpleThreading Makes Threading Easy!

by Sharp Ninja

Threading can be a daunting topic. This library takes much of the worry (and mistakes) out of multi-threaded application programming.

Singleton Pattern VB.NET using Static Variable

by Evgeniy Sukhikh

The most elegant implementation for VB.NET and safe as simple

Sizable Glyph for CheckBox/RadioBox Control - WinForms

by psychohamster

This article will show you how to use the Sizable CheckBox control I have designed.

SMO Scripting Based on Dependency

by Thava Rajan

Prepare script for specific objects

SMTP Client Class

by Bob L.

This is a simple VB.NET class that encapsulates the sending of e-mail messages via SMTP.

So you need to sort that Parameter list in SSRS from a SharePoint List

by rnbergren

Gives a run down of how to sort parameters for sharepoint lists selections

Solo Button Application

by Pratik M Mahajan

Public Class Form1 '********************************************************************************************************************************* 'I am just printing messagebox 'you can replace this with other calling values 'for eg. Dim com As New OleDbCommand ' ...

Solving "Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to '1-dimensional array of String'."

by shubha_vasisht

Some of the Anti Patterns

by Atulkumar P Patel

Anti Patterns are wrong practice followed by Developers. They are opposite to Design Patterns.

SQL Bulk copy method to insert large amount of data to the sql database

by bluesathish

Fastest and most efficient method to insert large amount of records to a SQL Server database from our system generated datatable.

SQL Bulk copy method to insert large amount of data to the sql database

by THE BLACK TIGER

Thank you for this article, okay it's technical.But we can use other methods considered as more efficient. *For Microsoft SQL Server, we can use bulk copy program(bcp). The tool is embeddedwithin SQL server so you can invoke it inside your application - whatever language you use....

SQL Express Membership API Provider Utility

by jasonalls

SQL Server Express Membership API Provider Utility

SQL Schema Support Multi Version Tables

by Simon Korenfeld

SQL schema with multi version tables support

SQL Server Connection Dialog

by Hernán Hegykozi

Show you how to make a connection dialog developed completely from scratch.

SQL table data to Excel and open Excel on client side

by joe_j

Export SQL table data into Excel and open the excel file on the client side.

SSIS Script Task to Copy Table Object with data from One SQL Server to Another using Transfer SQL Server Objects

by Suryakant S. Bharne

SSIS Script task to copy Table Object with data from one MSSQL server to another using Transfer SQL Server

Storing Dataset in a file using Object Serialization

by alrosan

String to byte conversion using .NET encoders (8bit 1-on-1)

by Tieske8

Fast conversion between strings and byte arrays, while bypassing the codepage limitations

String to byte conversion using .NET encoders (8bit 1-on-1)

by jocko3d

The TestConversion function is not valid. The line of code "data = data & Chr(n)" uses the Chr function to build a string of characters used for the test. The problem is that the Chr function is itself bound to a code page. Specifically, it will utilize the code page that is in use by the...

Sunflower Fractal - Practice

by dyma

Sunflower fractal, so that you can play and create a wonderful image

SVCUtil User Interface

by Kelvin Armstrong

GUI application for running SVCUtil to generate service model code

Sync Calendar Creator Export .CSV to Google Calendar

by Mike Meinz

This sample program demonstrates how to use Google Calendar API v3 to delete Google Calendar events, insert Google Calendar events and update Google calendar events based on a .CSV file exported from Calendar Creator.

Tabbed IE Browser Control

by Emmery Chrisco

Tabbed Browser Control addon

TcpClient.BeginConnect with Timeout

by Nosey Parker

TcpClient.BeginConnect with timeout

Telephone Validation Method

by Dominick Marciano

Validate phone number according to the North American Numbering Plan

Test if a TreeNode was actually clicked

by Gregory Gadow

Test if a TreeNode was expanded or collapsed rather than actually clicked.

Text Max Length Programmatically | Tested on WinPhone APP

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Choose your text maximum length programmatically and show a message whenever the length = the maximum length

Textbox Control with Autocomplete

by Taucher Christoph

WindowsForm Textbox with custom Autocomplete function

Textbox Regular Expression Validation

by Dev O'Connor

An extension to the textbox control to offer textbox validation without the need to constantly apply code using regular expressions.

TFS Backward Migration from (2012SP1\SQL 2012 ENT) to (2010 SP1\SQL 2008 R2 STD)

by Sushil Pandit

Process for backward migration of code from TFS 2012 to TFS 2010

The "Using" Block as a Language Feature

by open-collar

Download source (55.5 KB)IntroductionThe "using" block in C# and VB.NET can be used as a high-level language construct, not just as a way of tidying-up. In this article I show you how to capture and restore state using constructors and disposers.BackgroundIn any substantial...

The best Way to use snippets in .net

by sujit agarwal

read this article if you really are a code snippet freak...

The Cursor.Clip Property

by User 7592706

Freezing the Windows Cursor is done in an easy "one-liner"

The SharePoint sid:1002 error

by marc9889

To Get Id of a gridview Which is Placed Inside a User Control Form webPage

by Yashwanth R

To fetch the ID of a grid view control which is inside a User Control

Transparent Label in VB

by Johnny J.

A VB conversion of a C# Transparent Label control

Transparent Label in VB

by Anshul R

Label1.Paren...

Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values

by Jyothikarthik_N

A simpler way to parse a URL address string in VB.NET as URL itself and fetch query string values

Triangular Color Selector

by mycenean

Creating a simple color selector dialog

Unit testing INotifyPropertyChanged [tip]

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to unit test a class that implements INotifyPropertyChanged

Unit Testing Serialisation

by Duncan Edwards Jones

An example of a unity test that tests an object serialises

Updating a UI Element from Multiple Threads

by BeardyMcBeardFace

How to update a UI element from multiple threads

Updating Business Models With Only Differing Property Values

by Jacob Himes

An automated approach to updating business models intelligently, by updating a destination model with a source model only on properties whose values differ.

Uploading files using Box API

by Chamila Nishantha

Guide to upload files to Box using Box API

USB Reset Attribute

by Prabakaran T

Ultimate USB Reset Attribute with powerful option

Use Icons for cursors, not ".CUR"

by Bill9603

Many developers use ".cur" cursor files. Using them myself in Visual Studio 2008, they are not the easiest things to work with for many reasons.They are not easy to create without expensive software. (unless you are using the editor within Visual Studio)They cannot easily be ported in the...

Use of IReadOnlyDictionary and IReadOnlyList Properties in .NET Objects

by Michael B. Erickson

Control the changes to structured data exposes by your .NET objects

Use the same button to perform start and stop

by sujit agarwal

This trick is really meant for novice programmers...

Use Xaml.XamlServices to Serialize or Deserialize DependencyObject

by Jack Z. Stone

How to use Xaml.XamlServices to serialize or deserialize a DependencyObject.

Using a Customized Messagebox in ASP.NET

by Prince Tegaton

Building a Custom User Control for Messagebox

Using a Persian calender in .NET 4

by aref.bozorgmehr

How to use a Persian datetime picker and calendar in your applications.

Using Cortana to get Foo Due

by LarryCharlton

A VB.NET example of Cortana UI and application service

Using Data Classes in ASP.NET - A Beginner's Guide

by Wombaticus

A beginner's introduction to using data classes in ASP.NET.

Using Masked TextBox in .NET

by heemanshubhalla

How to use Masked Textbox control in .NET

Using Named Colors

by LarryCharlton

Using system, named, and hex color values

Using Remote Attribute for Remote Site Validation MVC

by umair zubairy

using Remote Attribute in MVC, vb.net

Using SHA1 and MD5 in ASP.NET

by Martin Ton

SHA1 and MD5 class for net version.

Using Uniscribe from VB.NET

by Gregory Morse

How to use uniscribe from VB.NET

Using Web Configs Key Value pair in classical Asp pages

by Shekhar Pankaj

Using Web Configs Key Value pair in classical Asp pages

Validate a CSV file in VB.NET

by Member 2650270

Code to validate a CSV file in VB.NET.

Validate password strength on the server side

by Ehsan Valizadeh

This code will validate a password on the server side. ;) Imports System.Text.RegularExpressionsPublic Class PasswordAdvisor Enum PasswordScore Blank = 0 VeryWeak = 1 Weak = 2 Medium = 3 Strong = 4 VeryStrong = 5 End Enum ...

VB & C# .NET/WinForms: Language Selector ComboBox

by vblover Programmer

Custom DropDownBox with all languages of the world to select a language.Save and reload Selected language using Application Settings

VB .NET/WinForms: Create Form's MainMenu by Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL

by vblover Programmer

Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL (created by VC++) and Set for Form As MainMenu by API Functions.

VB 6.0 BitConverter

by lorekd

Leveraging the built in LSet statement, along with user-defined types, to implement a class to translate binary data to/from simple data types

VB.NET - A Different Approach to Creating Control Arrays - Create controls at Design Time, Process Them as a Control Array with Shared Event Handlers

by Member 10974085

VB.NET - A different approach to creating control arrays - Create controls at Design time, process them as a control array with shared event handlers

VB.NET - Change font size to fit all text in a RichTextBox

by VyReN

Using VB.NET's RichTextBox and fitting all text into the box

VB.NET - Dynamically Resize and Reposition All Controls when Form is Resized, Including Font Sizes

by Member 10974085

VB.NET - Resize and Reposition all controls when Form is resized

VB.NET Calculating Linear Regression Slope and Intercept

by Logicisme

Mimic Excel Slope and Intercept functions for datasets

VB.NET Classes from SQL DB

by IssamK

How to automatically generate classes for your database tables

VB.NET Code 128 (B) Barcode Generator/Creator

by fah_q_2007

Creating Code 128B barcodes with VB.NET

VB.NET Emailing System Based on Templates

by Member 10168565

How to send emails based on RTF templates containing images and attachments, while giving the user the possibility to modify the content before sending

VB.NET ITAPI/TAPI Incoming call and caller ID

by iupax80

ITAPI, TAPI Incoming call and caller ID/Caller Number show

VB.NET MVVM Toolkit Demo

by Jo_vb.net

How to get started using the MVVM Toolkit

VB.NET wrappers for much of the Windows API

by andrewbb@gmail.com

Includes most API functions except for graphical ones.

VB.NET wrappers for much of the Windows API

by andrewbb@gmail.com

Includes most API functions except for graphics.

VB.NET, NeoLua and External XAML Implementation

by PyroStrex

Example of loading external scripting and external XAML with VB.NET and NeoLua

VB.NET/WinForms: Add MenuItem to SystemMenu

by vblover Programmer

Adding ContextMenu's MenuItem to the SystemMenu of Form in Windows Forms Application

VBA : encrypted / password protected PDF for MS Office

by algor-AG

VBA : encrypted / password protected PDF for MS Office

VBA Code for Parsing US Address Information

by Clifford Nelson

VBA Code that will take a string and attempt to pull out the company name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and web address

Very simple way to restore form window to its previous state

by Аslam Iqbal

Very simple way to restore form window to its previous state

by RMittelman

Here is a way to do this without using the registry.In the project's properties, Settings pane, add the following settings. You can name these settings anything you want, but use the same setting name in the code shown below:Name: MainWindowStateType:...

Very simple way to restore form window to its previous state

by Edgemeal

Here's another way. This saves the form's normal WindowState settings, so you can still save even if the form is minimized, and it can be used for any form. It also includes a sub to keep forms inside the desktop area.Check the Regpath string before using!...

Visual Basic SQL to XML

by MarcusCole6833

Visual Basic SQL to XML

Visual Clues to Website Environment Under IIS

by DerekT-P

Detection and reporting of website environment under IIS

Visual SourceSafe automation to get shared references

by KRISHNA PRASAD.N

This paper would provide a small code snippet which will report all files from VSS (Visual SourceSafe 6.0) with shared reference instances. It will be useful for migrating files from VSS to TFS.

Visual Studio 2010 Reading SVN Revision and Updating File and Product Version (Easy Way)

by prodrigues1990

Easy Assembly Version reflecting SVN working revision

Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks

by jleonorlane

Architecture Tools in VS 2010 supports UML (Unified Modeling Language 2.1.1) diagrams to help you understand your application, such as the Architecture Explorer and Dependency Graphs.To create the following UML diagrams, as well as to use the Architecture Explorer, requires Visual Studio...

Visual Studio Class Library for Microsoft Access

by Joao Tito Livio

Introduction...

Visual Studio Editor - Controls disappearing at Design Time

by Mike 2005

In Design Mode a form suddenly fails to display its controls even though the project continues to work normally.

Visual Studio Resources usage

by Member1978

How to use Resources in Visual Studio.

VisualBasic CLI Pipeline

by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to use pipeline feature for linux programming

VS 2008 Data Source Configuration Wizzard Error

by ledtech3

VS.NET 2010 (BIGINTEGER): MISSING 'SQRT' FUNCTION

by Marcello Cantelmo

Function Sqrt(ByVal value As BigInteger) As BigInteger Dim a As BigInteger = BigInteger.One Dim b As BigInteger = (value >> 5) + 8 While (b.CompareTo(a) >= 0) Dim m As BigInteger = BigInteger.Add(a, b) >> 1 If (BigInteger.Multiply(m,...

VS2010 Macro - Collapse Lines of Code Between Comments

by ARNOULT

Visual Studio 2010 Macro : Collapse all sections of code between 2 lines of comment

VS2010/VB.NET update single column for a rows in a DataTable

by karenpayne

WCF Service Hosted on "any binding, on Any Hosted Domain"

by mozwizard

Out of frustration comes simplicity ...

Web Browser Hangs/Freeze Issue VB.NET

by Jems_007

The tip is for those who getting application hang/freeze issue in web browser control.

Web Page to PDF or Image

by me.ajaykumar

How to convert a web page to PDF or image

Week numbers according to ISO8601

by jasper.mandos

/// /// Stuct for the ISO 8601 week date/// /// /// See:/// See:/// Algorithm:<see...

Week Numbers according to ISO8601

by Richard MacCutchan

Week numbers according to ISO8601

Week Numbers According to ISO8601

by Luc Pattyn

This is an alternative to "Week Numbers According to ISO8601".

Weighted Quick Union Find in C#, VB.NET and F#

by juwikuang

Weighted Quick Union Find in C#, VB.NET and F#

What is the Difference between ArrayList and List Class?

by Bhushan Mulmule

ArrayList is a non-generic collection class and resides in System.Collection namespace whereas List is a generic class and resides in System.Collections.Generic namespace

by Koshy Panicker John

Different Method(s) to Find IP Address?

by Mohammad A Rahman

namespace IpAddresses{ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Net; class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { GetIPAddresses().ForEach(ip => Console.WriteLine(ip)); } ...

by Archimedes24

I find this useful:Dim st As System.IO.StreamDim sr As System.IO.StreamReaderDim req As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp")Dim resp As System.Net.WebResponse = req.GetResponsest = resp.GetResponseStreamsr =...

by Anshul R

Private Sub GetIPAddress()Dim strHostName As StringDim strIPAddress As StringstrHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName()strIPAddress = System.Net.Dns.Resolve(strHostName).AddressList(0).ToString()MessageBox.Show("Host Name: " & strHostName & "; IP Address: " &...

by nlarson11

On Vista/Win 7, I have seen code where only a single period is returned for (0). This makes sure you get the actual IP regardless of the system.Const IPPattern As String = "^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$"With Dns.GetHostEntry(System.Environment.MachineName) Return...

by Dinesh Kr. Choudhary

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ HttpBrowserCapabilities bc = Request.Browser; Label1.Text = "IP Address=" + Request.UserHostAddress;}