- 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…
- 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…
- AlphaControls - adding fashion to your applications has never been easier — As a developer, you should be primarily concerned with the functionality of your application and its stability in different conditions. As a smart developer, you should also be concerned with the appearance of your products. This important factor often becomes the final incentive that makes people choose a specific product among dozens…
- Process Lasso - an efficient way of harnessing applications that have gone wild — Despite the fact the multi-core processors and their amazing performance are winning the market, there are situations when even a small process can make these amazingly fast number-crunchers kneel and bring your work almost to a complete halt. If you would like to avoid such situations and make sure that your system will be up and running under any load, check…
- UI Builder for Access - a drastic usability improvement for your Access applications — Microsoft Access is one of the most popular solutions for quick creation of database-driven applications mostly used in office environments. Being in essence a very powerful tool for creating complex forms and reports, Microsoft Access unfortunately lacks a lot of standard UI elements, which makes the process of creating a user-friendly…
- VisioForge Video Edit SDK 3.3 - a whole new world of video editing opportunities for your applications! — If you are developing an application that needs to have built-in video editing capabilities, implementing this functionality from scratch may bring the project to a complete halt for some time and increase the risk of not meeting the deadline. In order to avoid these undesirable consequences, you need a set of ready components that will integrate…
- VectorEye - the most hassle-free method to turn regular images into vector graphics — Whenever you need to convert a standard bitmap image into the vector format to use in a Flash movie or any of the popular vector-based applications, such as CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Mobile Designer, Swish, Inkskape or others, you face a dilemma of doing it manually or finding a tool to perform the conversion for you…
- MagicTracer: Raster to Vector Converted Simple Way — Raster images are pretty to look at, but are hard to work with. One of the reasons is they are hard, time-consuming to reproduce. Normally, when you need a vector image, you simply draw it from scratch in a vector image editor. But what are you supposed to do if you’ve got the source image in your digital camera…
- 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…
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