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Articles in VB.NET
Changing The Background Color of a TabControl's Tab
I've noticed a couple of questions in the VB.NET forums recently where someone wants to change the BackColor of the Tab Header on TabPages. As far as I know, in VB2005 and earlier you have to eit...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2008 Jan 14
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 907; Sentence Count: 17; Grade Level: 12.0
Share Files Over the Internet from Your Computer with HFS [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware application HFS (HTTP File Server) makes it dead simple to run a server to share files from your computer over the web. All you have to do is run the application on the computer with fil...
From : Lifehacker
2008 Jan 10
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 132; Sentence Count: 6; Grade Level: 10.0
Box Clever - The WPF ListBox (2)
Moving Beyond Simple Strings Introduction In the previous item on Listboxes I looked at some ways of tweaking a WPF ListBox which contained only strings. As the range of what can be i...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Sep 20
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 2051; Sentence Count: 100; Grade Level: 8.7
Windows Forms - Aligning Two Forms
This tip barely qualifies as a Gotcha! but I have seen some people get stuck with it, so thought it worth a mention. If you want to control exactly where a second form is placed in relatio...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Aug 05
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 347; Sentence Count: 21; Grade Level: 2.5
VB 2005: How To Hide / Show Multiple TabPages in a TabControl
IntroductionIn the previous parts we looked at ways of hiding and showing a single Tab Page in a TabControl. In some situations you may need to hide and show multiple pages. This is still fairly...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Jul 18
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 955; Sentence Count: 51; Grade Level: 4.8
Hiding a TabPage (2) - User's Selection
In the previous part I looked at a very simple scenario where the developer knew in advance which TabPage should be hidden and re-shown. Next we'll look at doing the same thing, except that this time the use...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Jun 29
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1184; Sentence Count: 54; Grade Level: 5.1
VB 2005: How To Hide and Show a TabPage in a TabControl
AfterNote: There are now three blog items on this topic, each showing a different aspect If you want to view them all as one article, follow this link) Sometimes you may want to hide...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Jun 25
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 871; Sentence Count: 47; Grade Level: 8.3
How To Print A Form To Printer in VB 2005
a.k.a. The Power of the PrintForm Power Pack! Introduction Let's face it, ease of printing in VB.NET has never been its main selling point. In fact, because you literally have to draw most of what you w...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Jun 19
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1110; Sentence Count: 76; Grade Level: 4.0
VB 2005: The "Missing" Sub Main Problem
As I've said on many occasions in the past, it's those sometimes tiny little Gotchas that will cause you the greatest amount of aggravation. Here's one that I've been meaning to blog for a while now. It's a ...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Jun 19
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 209; Sentence Count: 14; Grade Level: 6.5
How to Create Microsoft Access DataSource for Win Forms App Visual Basic 2005
Source Code: How to Create Microsoft Access DataSource for Win Forms App Visual Basic 2005 How to Create Microsoft Access DataSource for Win Forms App Visual Basic 2005 Visual Studio 2005 provides a fea...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 May 26
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 614; Sentence Count: 64; Grade Level: 6.7
Closures in VB Part 3: Scope
For previous articles in this series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Thus far in the series we've only lifted variables that are declared in the same block/scope. What happens if we...
From : jaredpars WebLog
2007 May 25
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 525; Sentence Count: 38; Grade Level: 5.0
CheckedListBox (1) - Checking, Unchecking, Comparing
This blog item was originally going to be about ten lines long and all I intended to show was how to programatically uncheck all items in a CheckedListBox in VB 2005. But, you know how ...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 May 16
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 974; Sentence Count: 58; Grade Level: 2.2
Closures in VB Part 2: Method Calls
For previous articles in this series, please see Part 1 - The basics This part of the series will focus on how method calls are handled in closures. As stated in the previous article, the purpose o...
From : jaredpars WebLog
2007 May 03
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 476; Sentence Count: 25; Grade Level: 8.8
Closures in VB: Part 1
One of the features I implemented for VB 9.0 is lexical closure support. This a great addition to the VB language and I wanted to do a series of blog posts to describe this feature and how it will impact...
From : jaredpars WebLog
2007 Apr 27
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 507; Sentence Count: 39; Grade Level: 5.7
How To Group ListView Items with ListViewGroup VB2005
Source Code: How To Group ListView Items with ListViewGroup VB2005 How To Group ListView Items with ListViewGroup VB2005 This article with source code demonstrates how to group ListView Items with the L...
From : mike mcintyres
2007 Feb 06
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1579; Sentence Count: 129; Grade Level: K
