- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- 10 Applications MyDB 2.0, Data is Always With Me — Writable CD and DVD disks just couldn’t have become our main media. Several years later, a USB stick could. Now, willing always to be able to work with your data, you shouldn’t have these heavy and expensive notebooks or not-so-handy handhelds. You are just carrying around your data on a small memory stick and any computer on the way can suit you as a workplace. But in fact, it is not that easy…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- EControl Form Designer Pro - a reliable aide that will always help you out with form creation — If you are a professional developer working on a complex application, such as a SCADA tool, an extensible data management solution or an engineering suite, you may need to implement form design functionality that will allow users create their own forms right within your software. Creating such features from scratch is a task of tremendous complexity; therefore you may want to try EControl Form Designer Pro —…
- AlphaXP - all you need to have full control over transparency in Windows XP — Transparency is one of the coolest features that Windows Vista can boast. It creates the eye-candy effect that so many users expect to see in a next-gen OS, but, unfortunately, does not have much practical value. Although you can see through window elements, the underlying objects are blurred and the content of the window is not transparent at all — so, for instance, you cannot fill out a form by simply looking…
- Limnor Codeless Programming System - a high-tech constructor for quick and easy ad hoc programming — If you ever felt that you had a great programming idea, but you just didn’t know how to approach development and had had absolutely no programming experience before, rejoice! There are developers out there who care about people like you and want to share the joy of creating programs that really work with everybody around. Limonor Codeless Programming System is a unique solution that allows users to create their own fully functional…
- Alvas. Audio 6.5 – make your applications sound differently! — If you are a developer working with C# or VB.NET languages to create an application that is actively using sound capturing, processing and playback functions, you are most probably facing a serious dilemma. Since these are large and complex tasks, you may want to create your own classes and libraries to have full control over all sound-related processes. However, if your time is limited and deadlines are looming, you may want…
- CenterIt - a 1-2-3 approach to centering form controls in Microsoft Acess — These days, more and more computers — both desktops and laptops — have widescreen monitors by default. Widescreen high-resolution displays are better suited for multi-window environments, active work with several documents and even movies. However, non-standard aspect ratios and high resolutions can also create problems for developers — the elements of interfaces that looked perfect in lower resolutions suddenly regroup and move to the upper…
- @SwIt Printfil: Console Applications Make Friends with Windows Printers — There is not much in common between DOS and USB — one knows nothing about the other. So, if you use those good old DOS programs, and you happen to print from of them on a matrix printer — make sure your technicians don’t «evacuate» that noisy box during an upgrade; or else the printing may become a major challenge; at least, until you get the Printfil utility. It adds just…
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