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This highly-anticipated title provides a clear introduction to game programming for you, VB.NET programmers! Microsoft insiders have written an easy-to-read guide, so you can start programming games quickly. This book even includes an introduction to Managed DirectX9, and other advanced .NET features, like animation and sounds. Code examples...
Updated: 05/30/2005
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Technology Toolbox: VB.NET Y ou don\'t have to build custom controls from scratch. You can use inheritance to add specialized behavior to existing controls, as this month\'s Desktop Developer column describes ( see Resources ). But you don\'t have to stop there. For advanced control building, you\'ll want to master subclassing. As far back as version 5, Visual Basic supported subclassing to some extent, but VB\'s lack of inheritance meant subclassing involved a lot of extra code. It took...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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Technology Toolbox: VB.NET F inding information on the Web is still a manual process, by and large. The problem is compounded if your search requires clicking through Web page after Web page. Users benefit greatly from automating their searches. And developers who know how to provide programmatic Web data access should enjoy widespread demand for their services. ADVERTISEMENT Suppose you\'re creating a point-of-sale system and you\'d like it to display a suggested price...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, VB6, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine M icrosoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE, known as Microsoft Data Engine in version 1.0) is Microsoft\'s \"strategic database\" replacement for the decade-old Jet engine that\'s now at its terminal version 4.0. It\'s a slightly restricted version of SQL Server 2000, without the bells and whistles. It comes with MSDN Universal, Enterprise, and Personal subscriptions; Visual Studio...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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April 2003 Issue Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C# M ost coding defects in traditional component development that aren\'t business-logic-specific are due to memory-management and object-lifecycle issues memory leaks, cyclic reference counts, failing to call Delete or Release(), accessing objects that are deallocated already, and so on. Writing impeccable code isn\'t impossible, but it takes years of experience, iron discipline, a mature development process, management\'s commitment to...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, VB6 Note: Karl Peterson\'s solution also works with VB5 Q: Pass Interfaces Through API After searching the newsgroups with Google, I thought I\'d found a solution to processing API callbacks (specifically, EnumWindows) within a VB class module. As you know, AddressOf works only with standard BAS module routines. The technique I\'ve been trying to implement involves \"stealing\" a reference to the class instance by copying a passed pointer into an...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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March 2003 Issue Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML ADVERTISEMENT B usinesses\' concerns about computer-system security are increasing in today\'s interconnected world. Management wants to ensure that employees can perform only the tasks for which they have rights, and to prevent third parties from reading and modifying sensitive information. Cryptography the science of encryption offers a solution. Microsoft created a simple set of classes within the .NET Framework to handle...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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July 2003 Issue Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, XML ADVERTISEMENT M icrosoft\'s SQLXML 3.0 is a powerful tool for rendering SQL Server 2000 relational data as structured XML documents within SOAP 1.1 response-message payloads. My earlier articles about SQLXML 3.0 emphasize generating document/literal XML Web services from existing stored procedures or table-returning functions (see Additional Resources ). These articles also explain how to set up SQLXML 3.0 SOAP virtual...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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May 2003 Issue Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, XML, XSLT ADVERTISEMENT E xtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is a declarative language that defines a series of rules for how XML is processed. Most XSLT transformations convert XML to HTML, but you can also use XSLT to create any type of text output, including VB.NET and C# files. I\'ll show you how XSLT works to generate VB.NET code, and I\'ll offer some hints on performing XSLT processing in .NET. This approach offers you a...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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July 2003 Issue Technology Toolbox: VB.NET B uilding Windows controls doesn\'t need to be a nightmare. I\'ve shown in past articles how to build complex controls with highly specialized behavior, but this doesn\'t mean that control building is always difficult. This article describes a simple solution to a real-world problem I experienced in my consulting work. You can use it to add some sophisticated functionality to your desktop apps, even if you have little or no control-building...
Updated: 05/29/2005
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