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Use a different kind of grid in your applications

My prior post ( Create a .Net UserControl that calls a web service that acts as an ActiveX control to use in Excel, VB6, Foxpro ) shows how to create a .Net control that you can use in VFP or VB6 that takes advantage of the .Net framework. Here’s an example

Create a .Net UserControl that calls a web service that acts as an ActiveX control to use in Excel, VB6, Foxpro

Here’s how you can use Visual Studio to create a .Net User Control that will act as an ActiveX control that can be used in Excel (or other Office application), VB6 or Foxpro. This will bring the power of the entire.Net Framework to your program. This
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Customizing the Blog Crawler for different formats

I’ve had several requests that require customizing the Blog Crawler. The entire source code of the Blog Crawler is available , so it can be modified to crawl blogs other than http://blogs.msdn.com Currently, it saves the entire HTML retrieved from a blog’s
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The VB version of the Blog Crawler

This is the VB.Net 2005 version of the Blog Crawler. It’s based on the Foxpro version , but.it uses SQL Server Everywhere so you can deploy it on your mobile device! It crawls a blog and stores all entries into a SQL Server Everywhere table. This includes
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Use conditional build events to freshen zip files in Visual Studio

I wanted to update a couple zip files of the VB version of my Blog Crawler (to be posted soon) with the latest and greatest when I built the Release version of a project. I used the XCOPY command with the /D option to update only if changed. Copying to
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Creating your own web browser for your SmartPhone

I like my Cingular 2125 SmartPhone (see Windows SmartPhone can run my Web Apps ). I went to Microsoft TechFest a couple weeks ago, which is put on by Microsoft Research to show off the latest and greatest. Several people had the same phone, and more than

Use Regular Expressions to get hyperlinks in blogs

At Southwest Fox conference I presented a sample calling a VB.NET server to do regular expression matching . Here’s the sample I used. It gets some HTML from my blog and parses all the hyperlinks (looks for the HREF tags) and puts them into a VFP table:
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Generating VBScript to read a blog

Sometimes I need to test something using VBScript . A user sends a code snippet and asks why it behaves a certain way. Examining the behavior in VB can help. Below is a VFP code sample which demonstrates VBScript code which uses several objects to read
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