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Parsing Sentences and Building Text Statics in Visual Basic
This article describes three approaches to parsing the sentences from a body of text; three approaches are shown as a means of describing the pros and cons for performing this task using each different approach.
4 Jun 2008, 20:58:00 Source: Parsing Sentences and Building Text Statics in Visual Basic
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Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET)
This is a simple to use Custom Button control, but with a lot of visual design options
3 Jun 2008, 13:49:00 Source: Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra...
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VB's Statically Typed Wrapper for Dynamic Code
Visual Basic (in some of its forms) has always been Microsoft’s choice in dynamic quarter. With the latest release of Visual Basic 9.0 (comes with Visual Studio 2008), dynamic features of VB have been further improved. So, in VB 9.0 you can use extension methods, local variable type inference, lambda expressions and others that make VB even more dynamic. What’s unique about VB is that dynamic behavior can be controlled with a simple directive..
VDialog (Vista TaskDialog for Windows XP)
Vista-like TaskDialog control for .NET Framework 2.0, compatible with Windows XP
Visual Basic and Respect
Will VB's new LINQ to XML prowess finally gain it the community respect accorded to other mainstream languages?
What's New in Visual Basic 9.0? Part 2
The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part Two of this series will walk you through VB 9's new LINQ support features and other time-saving enhancements.
What's New in Visual Basic 9.0? Part 1
The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part one of this series will walk you through using nullable types, type inference, the If operator, and other time-saving enhancements.
Fall In Love with Visual Basic All Over Again in Visual Studio 2008
Discover anew why Visual Basic is one of the most successful programming languages in history by exploring some of the new features Microsoft added to Visual Studio and Visual Basic.
30 Jan 2008, 19:39:07 Source: Fall In Love with Visual Basic All Over Again in Visual...
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XML Programming in Visual Basic 9.0
With Visual Basic 9.0, working with XML gets much easier for developers. Here's a look at some of the new features, including LINQ support, XML literals, embedded expressions, XML properties, and XML Schema IntelliSense.
A Screen Capture Utility
JPG Capture is a utility designed for the developers to capture the debugging screenshot, while it is also ideal for general screen capture purpose. JPG Capture can capture the desktop screen into picture files in sequence. Users can define the capture hotkey, capture area (Current window, Full screen or Rectangular area), picture format ( .jpg, .gif, and .bmp etc) and destination.

