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...
Exploring the Data Controls in Visual Basic.NET
Published 03/19/2014
Hannes du Preez demonstrates how to make a basic database and which tools Visual Studio 2012 provides for working with a database.
How to Create MapReduce Jobs for Hadoop Using C#
Published 03/06/2014
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.
