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Environment: VB .Net, .Net Framework, SQL Server 2000 This article will show how to fill a ListView Control with the data contained in any ADO.Net DataReader. You can use a DataSet bind it to a Grid Control to show the output of a query, but data binding of controls is not the ideal method of […]

How to Use MS HTML as a HTML Parser in Visual Basic Without Using the Browser Control. . Environment: VB6 SP5, XPPro, IE6 The main goal of this article is to provide a way to use the HTML parser inside Microsoft Internet Explorer within your program. This is something usually easy if you use the […]

Environment: Here’s a block comment macro for Visual Studio .NET (as I wasn’t able to find one and I wanted to find the differences in the API). It seems to work okay for me. Feel free to post bug fixes and so forth. I hope someone finds it useful. Good luck. The code follows: ‘ […]

. Environment: C# This is a simple chat program using asynchronous socket. This program is act like a client or a server. It can connect to another other PC (installed with the same program) or it can wait for another PC to connect to it. You can test the program on the same PC by […]

–> Environment: C#, .NET Since my company, Harrissoft.co.uk, does a lot of .NET consultancy, one of our recent projects required that file i/o access be denied if the user running the application did not have administrator privileges. A lot has been written about the command line utility caspol.exe, however, this can seem a little over […]

Environment: .NET C#, Win2K, Windows XP Introduction Flicker free animated drawing had been a very hot issue with Win32 and MFC. Many excellent articles are available to explain the techniques to get a flicker free animated effect. As many of the reader know that most popular technique has been to use off-screen DC (device context) […]

Environment: C# Summary In this article I discuss the event handling model in .NET using C#. The discussion starts with an introduction to the concept of delegates and then it extends that concept to events and event handling in .NET. Finally, I apply these concepts to GUI event handling using windows forms. Complete code is […]

Environment: Visual Studio.NET Beta 1 Though not obvious, time synchronization is sometimes important. The best example is the Kerberos authentication protocol, which requires the resources to be synchronized within minutes or even seconds, but there are other situations as well. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) and its simplified form (SNTP) are widely used to synchronize […]

In this article I will show you the classes the .NET provides to use streams. I will start by looking at basic stream access, which will lead me to explain encoding and stream readers and writers, serializing objects to streams and finally I will explain how to create a stream. Row, row, row the boat… […]

Environment: W2k, (VS) .NET Final Release, C# Introduction The property grid is a nice control to display properties and values. You can create an instance of your class and assign it to the property grid. By using reflection, a property grid extracts the properties of the class and displays their values. It would be nice […]

In this article, I will explain the programming paradigm used within the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) for enumerating objects. Pay particular attention to the section on type safety and performance, because the information presented in this section is very useful when doing all kinds of things in the runtime. In future articles, I’ll […]

In last month’s column, I described the fundamental concepts related to managing and enumerating a set of resources or objects. In this month’s article, I’m going to continue this discussion and show how the .NET Framework builds on the concepts presented last month to offer a consistent programming paradigm for working with collections, lists, and […]