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A small reusable framework that implements a Rules Wizard resembling Outlook's Rules and alerts feature allowing users to configure and store their own rules.

How to perform scanning, rearranging, OCR and Outlook export of documents for a paperless future - or at least a tidy desktop.

Learn how to make the ListView control sort by a column when a user clicks on a column header, sort by all columns, or sort in just about any other way you can imagine.

The included Sophia project is intended to be both instructive and fun. It is, at the most basic level, a chatterbox application with speech synthesis and speech recognition tacked on to it.

This article provides an overview of the various features of the GrammarBuilder class, including how to build increasingly sophisticated recognition rules. I will go over some tricks for making the bot personality appear more lifelike. I will also try to unravel some of the issues involving deploying an SR application to Windows XP rather than deploying to Vista. This article will also highlight some of the other gotchas you might encounter while working with the Vista managed Speech API. Finally, it will demonstrate an extensible design that allows multiple speech recognition applications to run together at the same time.

Visual C# provides a powerful GDI+ class library interface that allows users to draw various graphics objects. This article shows you how to create a US flag using C# and GDI+. The US flag contains 50 star polygons and several rectangles.

The dependency injection pattern, also knows as Inversion of Control, is one of the most popular design paradigms today. It facilitates the design and implementation of loosely coupled, reusable, and testable objects in your software designs by removing dependencies that often inhibit reuse. Dependency injection can help you design your applications so that the architecture links the components rather than the components linking themselves.

This article presents an overview of the dependency injection pattern, the advantages of using dependency injection in your designs, the different types of dependency injection, and the pros and cons of each of these types, with code examples where appropriate.

GoogleTranslator is an object that allows you to translate English text to French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portugese and back by harnessing the power of Google's online language tools.

The demo app also performs a reverse translation, which can often appear amusing when compared to the original text. The app can be used as a poor man's resource translator for simple phrases, but you'd be wise to confirm the translation with a native speaker before using the results.

This is a base class to help easily create UITypeEditors. It is used to edit control properties in a DropDown window or a Modal-Form in design mode in the Visual Studio IDE

Refactor Searcharoo C# search engine code to make it easier to extend, and add ability to index/search Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, etc.

Improved Memento pattern particularly designed to support undo and redo.