- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Troy2000, Grab It And Run — You can’t earn all the money in the world, and if you keep working and forget about resting, your brain will eventually melt down and run out through your nose holes. That’s a joke, of course. Nevertheless, don’t forget to sit back and relax as you work. And to make your rest a lot of fun, get yourself Troy 2000, a challenging arcade game with treasures of gold, humorous characters, and dozens of mazes…
- 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…
- Run Plus, Just A Keyword Away — Running applications through the start menu is common and easy; it’s pretty much intuitive and takes just a few mouse clicks. But when the number of applications installed on your computer reaches a few dozens or a couple of hundreds; how much time will you spend browsing your software list on the start menu? Haven’t you thought about inventing an easier way of opening your favorite files? The same issue concerned…
- Manco .NET Licensing System - a 1-2-3 solution for product licensing and protection — When the last lines of your application and written and tested, one last step must be made to ensure a normal sales process — creation of the licensing scheme and the very mechanism that will allow you to offer different versions of the product and unlock the product for registered users. If your deadline is close and you haven’t figured out a way to quickly implement such a system, take a closer look…
- NJStar Communicator - teach your operating system and favorite programs to speak Chinese, Korean and Japanese in no time! — If you are a native speaker of any of the major Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, or a student learning them, you are probably very familiar with the problem of using these languages online. The non-western characters become a real problem in applications initially designed for more traditional markets of the West. If you are seeking a way to teach your software to recognize these languages, NJStar…
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