- 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…
- Distributed Password Recovery. Force Any Lock — Forgotten or lost passwords can cause problems. But this statement is too weak. Suffice it to say: you business fortune, your career, and sometimes your creativity and happiness can be broken completely by file, which is «physically here» but can not be used because of an unfortunate loss of password. The good news is, in most of cases all can be changed with the appropriate password recovery tool. The most…
- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- RemBoot - The Remote Reboot Utility. — Serious work with remote Windows servers sometimes suffers from lack of control over those servers. Of course, letting just about ANYBODY to control your server is not the greatest idea. But the owner and administrator of the server often feel that their hands are tied when the computer is miles away, the support team is fast asleep and unlikely to respond quickly to a pager, and all that is needed is a quick system rebooot…
- 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…
- 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…
- Auto Shutdown Manager — Most of us never give a thought to the power consumption of our computer systems, regardless of the number of energy-thirsty devices we have in our homes or offices. We often leave our machines on when leaving work, so as to save a couple of start-up minutes in the morning. We pay our bills, but never ask ourselves how much we could save on power consumption and how the rest of the world…
- Easy Net Switch – a dream come true for real net-hoppers — If all networks were absolutely the same, they would’ve called it network utopia. No network-specific IP addresses, passwords, DNS servers, drive mappings, proxy and gateway addresses — all these things that may take hours to configure, especially when there is not system administrator around. Unfortunately, networks are all different and active users that commute between offices, building, departments, home and corporate networks know very well…
- Reboot Service - ad hoc control over the stability of remote servers — If the stability of your corporate network or the proper operation of your clients’ applications depends on how your server performs, its uninterrupted work and long uptime should be your primary areas of concern. Whenever your server’s memory is full, memory overflow errors cause the server to perform poorly or lead to complete freezing. In these cases, being close to the server to reboot it is vital…
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