Visual Basic and .Net News and Resources
Introducing the Next Generation of the Popular flowcharting/diagramming component
Lassalle Technologies, a leading supplier of powerful flowcharting/diagramming components, today released a much-anticipated upgrade to its highly acclaimed product AddFlow for .NET.
AddFlow for .NET is a .NET Windows Forms Custom control that is useful each time you need to display and use relationships between objects in your application. The new V2.0, created with Visual Studio 2005, introduces new features such as a parent-child relationship that provides a new way to group nodes, assign labels or dock nodes inside, the support of the XmlSerializable interface, a property bag feature to easily add new properties to nodes and links and many other enhancements.
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Theres no better way to learn ASP.NET 2.0 programming than with this book. Packed with complete applications (web forms, aspx code, and VB code), it starts you off fast in creating simple applications that get database data and manage session state. Then, it builds out your skills so you can create true e-commerce apps that do extensive database handling and use all the best 2.0 features.
TeachMeIT, a leading provider of online courses in IT and desktop applications, has launched its first course on .Net.
Titled Introduction to. Net, the course is principally designed for programmers who want to learn the .Net fundamentals before moving on to working with .Net technologies such as ASP.Net and VB.Net.
Microsoft’s .NET technology has quickly become one of the most relevant skills from the bottom to the top of an organization’s IT division.
HelpStudio Lite, included in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Software Development Kit.
Innovasys Ltd., a leader in help authoring and documentation tools, today announced the inclusion of a tailored version of the Innovasys HelpStudio help authoring product, HelpStudio Lite, in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Software Development Kit.
By providing a full help authoring environment within the Visual Studio 2005 SDK, Innovasys is providing developers building components and products that integrate with Visual Studio 2005 a complete solution for authoring help materials to accompany their solutions. HelpStudio Lite enables developers to author and maintain high quality help content with a consistent style quickly and easily.
FlashPlayerControl is a developer’s library to enhance Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX features. It does not use its own engine to display movies but provide a wrapper around official swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code instead. Thus it is possible to avoid certain Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX limitations.
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ShellObjects.Net 7.1 is a set of components which allow your applications to create quick-launch like appbars [ShellAppBar], display MSN/Office2003 style popups [ShellPopupNotification], put icons in the shell tray notification area with support for animations, multiple icons and balloon styles [ShellNotiyIcon], and create, modify and read shortcut (*.lnk) [ShellLink] and internet shortcut (*.url) files [UrlLink].
The new version fully supports VS 2005 and .Net 2.0 and has some new features and functionality.