(Le0) I had been searching for some good code that allows a programmer to export a Crystal Report programmatically, without using the (not always) functional buttons that come with Crystal Reports. This is a short, straight forward article on how to export a Crystal Report in the most common formats

(openshac) It’s not uncommon to have a usercontrol which acts as a simple container for a number of “sub controls”. A typical example might be an Address control containing an Address, City and Country textbox. This “Address” usercontrol does not have a TabIndex property by definition. However the u

(Scott Mitchell) In December 2004 the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) unveiled a Web service for accessing weather forecasts for locations within the United States. To demonstrate using this service and Web services in general, I wrote an article titled Display Local Weather Fo

(Irina Medvinskaya) Working with strings and performing various string operations is important to any Visual Basic developer. Whenever you need to be able to determine the number of words in a larger string, there is a simple VB.NET function that you can use in order to get the necessary result.

(abdulsami) It would not be wrong to say that web parts are going to be the future of web-based management systems. Web parts give you the option of dragging and dropping objects on a page, plus changing titles, border styles, and properties of objects at runtime. Before the introduction of web part

(Michael Sorens) The MSDN documentation includes a lot of material on persisting application settings in a Windows application (see Application Settings for Windows Forms ). But like much documentation, it’s primarily a reference rather than a practical implementation guide, giving the complex and i

(Zach Smith) There are many instances that require systems to perform certain tasks when files or directories are created or modified. One example of this is an import system that pulls flat files into a database. In this instance, a program must monitor a directory for newly created files. When a f

(Alejandro Gervasio) The composite pattern is one of the less commonly used patterns in PHP 5. Nevertheless, in certain situations, it is very helpful. This article, the first one in a two-part series, will introduce you to the basic concepts of the composite pattern.

(Robert Muller) By recognizing business intelligence (BI) as a transformative inflection point, Intel Corporation made global procurement reporting (GPR) a major contributor to the $300 million business value of the company’s e-procurement program. Formalizing the design approach utilized by GPR and

(Ed Tittel) What with a new desktop OS (Vista, in all its many versions) and a new version of MS Office (2007) on the scene, there’s been plenty of action around Visual Studio in the past few months. Given all the new functionality those two introductions trailed in their wake, not to mention more t