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I wrote this DLL for school, I had to execute a lot of queries and I wanted it to do in an easy and understandable way. So here is a DLL which can execute queries, but it can also execute a query (select only) to a listview and it can export it to a dataset. Very easy to use, so give it a shot! Read the rest of this entry »

(Probably) all of you get email, and just like this guy next to this text, we all are very happy with it :-p

I recently switched from VB.NET 2003 to 2008 and I wanted to do  something with e-mail. So here is a DLL to read/download (POP3) email and to send (SMTP) email. Read the rest of this entry »

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In this last article of the serie ‘VB.NET DLL creation and usage’, the usage and distribution of your DLL.. How do you compile your DLL, use it in your other VB.NET project (windows, web and all the others) and the distribution of your DLL. Read the rest of this entry »

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The last thing we can create in a DLL is a user created control. A user created control is mostly a set of controls (buttons, labels and so on) with some cobe behind it and can be seen as 1 control. In this article: how to create user created controls in a DLL. Read the rest of this entry »

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DLL’s aren’t just files with some classes, subclasses and functions, it is more than that. You can even add forms in a DLL and interact with them. In this article (part of the series ‘VB.NET DLL creation and usage’ ), I’ll show you how to add a form to your DLL and how to interact with it. It is obvious that you have read the previous articles, because this will build on it. Read the rest of this entry »

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In the previous artikle I discriped how to create a DLL in VB.BET 2003 Education Edition. For the ones who know much about DLL’s, this was enought to begin. For the ones who don’t know what to do now, can keep on reading.  Read the rest of this entry »

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At the school I’m on we work with VB.NET 2003, but not the ‘full’-version, but an ‘education’-version, it is way cheaper than the full-version, but some functions are disabled. The cool thing about VB.NET is that even if you can see it, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Read the rest of this entry »

In Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) it isn’t very hard to print text, it can even be displayed before printing to see if it is good enough. But the print functionality itself isn’t very good, it is very hard to print a really good designed page. So what we want is something that can print text which is formatted so that it will print a very beautiful formatted page. Read the rest of this entry »