- ConteXt: A completely different sight at DBMS — ConteXt is effective, highly scalable, and industrial-strength DBMS with an innovative data model. Rapid application development environment, which is included in ConteXt, allows you to speed up the development of complex data-manipulating applications. The powerful, but lightweight, engine makes possible any usage of the system, from embedded one-user DB to large solutions with hundreds of simultaneous connections. ConteXt is meant for…
- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- 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…
- AS HDTEMP WIN32 DLL 2.1 — Although modern hardware is built to stay for long and average MTBF values are quite impressive, some components are still fragile if placed in harsh conditions. Hard drives are crucial components of our computers, as they hold the most important — valuable information that costs much more than the medium is stored on. If you are developing an application that intensively uses the hard drive to retrieve, write or cache data…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- HardwareID DLL - rock-solid license protection made easy — If you are a software developer working on a project that requires serious protection from unauthorized use and copying, you may want to focus on implementing a kind of protection mechanism that is really hard to hack. Despite the diversity of approaches and protection methods available on the market these days, unique system identifiers remain one of the most reliable methods of locking a software license…
- Managed Extensions for VCL - a great solution of the Delphi Win32/.NET communication problem — Anyone familiar with software development knows how different the .NET framework is compared with older development platforms. The problem of framework interoperability has been vexing many developers who wanted to use .NET components in their Delphi and C++ applications. Finally, there is a solution for the problem. Managed Extensions for VCL enables you to interact with any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.Net, JScript.Net, Delphi .Net and others) from your…
- Shell MegaPack .NET - all you need to create great-looking interfaces in a wink of an eye — If you are a .NET developer working with complex user interfaces and developing applications with an extensive UI part, you know what a pain in the neck this aspect of development may be. You can spend days and weeks polishing your custom interface and it will still leave much to be desired in terms of usability, look and feel that your customers seek. But why reinvent the wheel and invest your precious time into something that has…
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