- Spices.Net Suite: All about .Net Visual Studio Can't Do — Spices.Net Suite is a collection of utilities, which brings all the strength the .Net platform *potentially* has right in a developer’s hands. Unfortunately, the functionality of the tools created by Microsoft for their own platform is always much poorer than what it could be, and Spices.Net is addressed to fix this drawback. Once installed, Spaces.Net Suite will provide you with pretty and usable environment, completely…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- 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…
- 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…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- 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…
- Email plus Voice for Microsoft Outlook - an easy way to say more in an email message — It often happens these days that you and the recipient of your messages (for instance, your client) live in completely different parts of the world. It creates certain difficulties for live communication and emails are not always informative enough to convey your thoughts. In this case, sending a sound recording solves the problem — you can quickly express your ideas, support them with attached documents and drop a couple of lines…
- CRC .NET Control - a native .NET component for fast CRC calculation — Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculations are used by the majority of developers to validate the integrity of files and binary streams, which makes them an important part of applications working with multiple input and output files. Despite the great number of available CRC algorithms utilizing various initial polynomials, CRC32 is by far the most popular one. If you are a .NET programmer and want to use a CRC library…
- Mail Communicator - a perfect tool for targeted mass-mailing — Ongoing attraction of new clients is a key part of a successful business strategy, but staying in touch with existing customers is equally important for any company. Keeping them updated about new products, services and changes in your prices helps you improve customer loyalty and stimulate cross-sales, which is always good. Emails have been long considered to be the most efficient and flexible method of delivering business information…
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