DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with VB.NET

Using the CodeDom to do scripting with .Net

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:33:18 GMT

The company I work for, Interactive Medica, provides SaaS business solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. Many of our clients receive data from third-parties which they need us to import into our system. This is pretty straight-forward and common in many industries. The data arrives in different formats, CSV files (or other delimited text files), Access database, Excel Spreadsheets, and so on. Sometimes the files are zipped and sometimes not. Sometimes the files are uploaded to us via FTP and at other times we need to pull the data, also usually via FTP.

Reducing Code Coupling - Service Locator

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:33:51 GMT

The second part of a series that shows how to reduce code coupling. This part discusses the Service Locator.

How to prevent Extension methods from appearing as global functions

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:39:54 GMT

C# have static (or shared) classes which VB lacks. Instead VB uses modules which are almost the same thing. One thing differs though and that is that modules makes its public methods appear as global accessible functions, meaning you don't have to type the ModuleName.MethodName() when calling such a member. You can instead simply call MethodName() directly. A disadvantage of this fact is that extension methods, that must exist in modules in VB, will appear in IntelliSense as global functions and not only as a method of the type you extended.

Protect your software & application with CryptoLicensing

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:56:36 GMT

CryptoLicensing, a licensing software and SDK from LogicNP Software, may soon become a formidable weapon in the hands of software companies in their fight against piracy. Many surveys have found that billions of dollars are lost every year because of pirated software. CryptoLicensing, with its powerful copy protection, activation and hardware-locking and machine-locking technologies, aims to help software companies protect their intellectual property and increase sales.

Writing a Custom NAnt Task (Part 1)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:19:42 GMT

The first of a 3 part series on writing a custom NAnt task. In this task, we'll be creating a task that combines log files from a single directory. Linked Source Code is provided in both C# and VB.Net

BEncoding and Torrent files with .Net

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:36:45 GMT

Some code I wrote to help when working with bencoding/decoding and torrent files.

Keywords as variables/identifiers. Why?

Thu, 14 May 2009 06:59:17 GMT

Code like string @string = "" will compile. Is it a good idea.

Formatting Currency in VB.NET

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:38:26 GMT

This article shows us how to format a string provided to the function in standard US currency format following the standards of $1,000.00 without using the Visual Basic Namespace (i.e. VB6 or Visual Basic.dll).

Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic

Mon, 11 May 2009 02:40:56 GMT

A review of a useful and unique book focused on a specific practice: refactoring code in VB.NET.

Great VB.NET Training

Tue, 05 May 2009 03:26:17 GMT

This firm rocks when it comes to .NET training. For myself and my developers, I've been very impressed.

Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:02 GMT

As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I thought I will develop my own screenshot capturing tool which will allow me to take screenshots as well as save it in just two clicks. In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to develop your own tool using .NET. Let's get started.

SYSTEM_INFO Structure

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:38:03 GMT

The SYSTEM_INFO structure documented for VB developers.

MEF helper class for VB.NET

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:06:17 GMT

This is a class I created to help me with MEF. It might be useful to somebody. It is a singleton with IDisposable to create a shared object for your application's lifetime. It also features lambda queries for finding metadata as well

Using MEF and querying the catalog container with VB.NET

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:17:03 GMT

I am using the Managed Extensibility Framework preview 5 in VB.NET, and I have to say, that it rocks! The project I am writing is a UI container that has "add-ins" that process files and such. I am working with another programmer to develop other add-ins for the app as well. To query for specific metadata, we first have to create an interface and a custom attribute.

Using .NET TripleDES Crypto Provider

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:36:23 GMT

Using .NET TripleDES Crypto Provider from CraigW Blog

The Shadow Knows! - The finer Nuisances of the VisualBasic.NET Shadows

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:01:51 GMT

Highlights the subtile but important differences in VB.NET between Shadows and Overrides.

Ebay Platform Notification Listener Web Service VB.NET and the EBAY

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:48:54 GMT

Adding an ebay notification listener using VB.NET 2005 to your project for use with the ebay developer sdk for .net

New Features in VB.NET 10 (.NET 4.0)

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:31:03 GMT

A summary of what's coming in VB.NET 10...

Software Development Until Done

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:23:57 GMT

This is still on going, driving me crazy. I will probably be busy with it for a few days now. If you think this does not apply to you, you are wrong.

Modifying VB XML Literals at Debug-Time

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:36:35 GMT

Article showing how to change XML literals in the debugger without using Edit and Continue.

VB.Net Property Generator

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:25:51 GMT

A useful tool that I found as a replacement for various VS plugins that auto generate properties. Quite simple, yet extremely useful when writing a ton of properties

Mystery of Not Operator in VB.Net

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:02:40 GMT

(Not 2) = -3. Strange! VB.net evalueates (2) as True and (Not 2) is also evaluated as true. Yanesh Tyagi explains this strange behavior in this article.

ASP.Net Maker intro

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:59:51 GMT

ASP.Net maker is a product for e.World Technology Limited, and they are creating some other makers such as ASP Maker, JSP Maker, PHP Maker,... You can download from there a trial version for 30 days, and also try to check the prices, its really cheap comparing to the tools power. The following video shows how you can create a website fast and manipulate it. "Better Video"

Generic Data Providers vs Specific Data Providers in VB.NET

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:33:44 GMT

This article explains what are the issues or options we have if we use generic data objects such as IDbcommand, Idbconnection etc in place of specific data objects such as SqlCommand or SqlConnection.

Printing in Visual Basic 2005

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:26:23 GMT

The code in this article shows how to print items from listview in my inventory software.