Visual Basic and .Net News and Resources
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 11 2006 InstallAware Software Corporation today announced the release of Setup Squeezer, an intelligent application to recompress Windows Installer (MSI) and InstallShield (EXE) setups using the most advanced algorithms available today.
With LZMA compression technology, and BCJ2 compression pre-processing, Setup Squeezer is able to make already-compressed setups smaller by an additional 15% to 50%. For instance, Setup Squeezer for Windows Installer reduces Microsofts Windows Defender MSI setup down to 3.2MB from 6.5MB.
Delmont, Switzerland - March 16, 2006 (Xtreeme) - The fourth incarnation of a search engine creator has been released. This software makes creation of search engines easier than ever! Whether for an offline CD-ROM/DVD distribution or local disk, or for a web server (Intranet/Web server), a search engine can be created within minutes with this software. A wide range of features allows for a high level of customization.
Free Visual Basic tutorial for beginner programmers. How to make a program for automatic generation and duplex printing of printable paper game (game builder). Full source code on Visual Basic 6.0 (full vb project), documentation and examples.
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net is a framework for fast, painless and easy development of Windows Explorer namespace extensions in .Net.
It eliminates the time-consuming, error-prone and complicated process of developing namespace extensions and enables you to concentrate on writing the functionality of your namespace extension.
It supports all features including sub-folders, custom views, details/column view, contextmenus, background contextmenus, drag-drop, icons, overlay icons, thumbnails, groups/categories, tile-view and property sheets which enable the namespace extension to integrate smoothly into Windows Explorer. It supports all Visual Studio and .Net versions including Visual Studio 2005 and .Net 2.0.
http://www.ssware.com/eznamespaceex…eextensions.htm
IconLover 4.10 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, its a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.
First, IconLover 4.10 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.
Second, IconLover 4.10 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.
Finally, IconLover 4.10 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.
The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.
This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265×256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265×256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.
IconLover 4.10 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars
Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.
If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.
System Requirements
Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Disk: 8 MB
Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm
Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm
Lingobit now provides solution for every development platform and every company.
New York, NY March 10, 2006 Lingobit Technologies, a leader in the software localization tools market, today announced the release of a new version of its flagship product, Lingobit Localizer. Lingobit Localizer is known for its software localization simplification of .NET (C#, VB.NET), MFC (Win32) and Java applications. With the launch of the products updated version, Lingobit Localizer has added support for Delphi, .NET 2.0 applications and text-based files.
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Build reports instantly with DTM Schema Reporter.
DTM Schema Reporter, as the name implies, is a reporting tool for database schema. This utility helps technical writers and database administrators create a report of any complexity level within seconds. And importantly, it supports all common database interfaces, whether it is ODBC, IDAPI, or even Oracle Call Interface.
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Did You Mean (Search Engine Spell Check) Functionality now avaiable for ASP applications.
Much of the worlds business infrastructure has been built in ASP. Finally there is an affordable, stable search engine spell check solution for ASP websites, intranets and applications.
“Did You Mean ” (http://www.aspdidyoumean.com) is the new search spellchecker component for Microsoft ASP.
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