Round those corners and make your user interfaces a little jazzier with a rounded rectangle Panel control; a fun chunk of code to incorporate into your application.
Creating a Rounded Panel Control
Published 12/11/2008
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Creating a Most Recents Menu Item with the MenuStrip
Published 09/24/2008
The MenuStrip and ToolStripMenuItem are a little harder to use than the Menu from earlier versions of VB. Walk through exercises using the MenuStrip, ToolStrip, and the Command behavior pattern to encapsulate a Recents menu for your applications that operate on files.
The Amazing GroupBox, Part 2
Published 07/21/2008
Gain the ability to contain controls and add a little preview for your control in design time.
The Amazing GroupBox, Part 1
Published 07/01/2008
Learn how to create your own GroupBox, with added features such as Alignment for the Title, and a scrollbar for child controls.
The Bare Basics of the Timer Control
Published 01/17/2008
Learn about some simple timer functions that produce some very complex effects.
Implementing Extension Methods in VB.NET
Published 05/25/2007
Extension Methods permit programmers to add behavior to a class without creating a wrapper. Here, you will learn how to implement Extension Methods in Visual Basic and .NET.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
Published 04/06/2012
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
