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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:43 PM

Run your application forms on the web

I received a customer question: I have looked all over the web and still searching, and found your blog. I have a very specific issue and I need to ask whether this is doable first of all and how to do it after. First of all, I need to make a foxPro app
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:08 PM

Add an interactive map to your web page

It’s pretty cool to play with the maps at http://Local.Live.com You can zoom in to various locations, add pushpins, save sets of pushpins as Collections. Aerial, Bird’s Eye and 3D view are fun too! When you sign in, your collections are visible from any
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:04 PM

Another way to get data into a web page: using OleDB or ODBC

Here’s a way to get data into a web page to be viewed by a web browser. The code first spits out some text into a variable, then writes the variable to a file in the c:\Inetpub\WWWRoot folder. If you have Internet Information Server installed (on WinXP
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:52 AM

Analyzing Blog hit statistics

It takes a lot of work to create the blog posts and code samples that I put in my blog, and I was curious about getting more detailed statistics about the posts. I already aggregate some statistics for Microsoft Bloggers (see What is a Microsoft MVP?
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:30 PM

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
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Friday, July 14, 2006 9:47 AM

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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Friday, July 07, 2006 1:39 PM

Handling arbitrary strings in URLs: Escape, InternetCanonicalizeUrl, WinHttpCrackUrl and URI.EscapeUriString

Sometimes a web application might want to put arbitrary strings into a URL, and make it a valid URL. The VBScript and JScript escape and unescape functions do just that. This sample shows how to use VBScript to escape and unescape a string. The escaped
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:04 PM

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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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:52 PM

How does EventHandler work? IConnectionPoint!

The EventHandler function allows you to connect some code to an object’s event interface. For example, Word allows you to run code when the user changes the Selected text in a document . An ADODB Recordset will fire events, such as WillMove and MoveComplete
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Monday, June 12, 2006 5:25 AM

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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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:06 AM

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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Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:30 PM

Webcrawl a blog to retrieve all entries locally: RSS on steroids

Today’s sample shows how to create a web crawler in the background. This crawler starts with a web page, looks for all links on that page, and follows all those links. The links are filtered to my blog, but generalizing the code to search the entire web
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Friday, March 17, 2006 1:39 PM

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
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:29 PM

Windows SmartPhone can run my Web Apps

I took my family to Whistler for some great skiing. Because our cell phones didn’t work too reliably when we were there before Christmas, we decided to get new cell phones to replace our 2 year old analog cell phones. Communications was quite simple and
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:43 AM

Publishing blog statistics horror story

I received an email from someone at Microsoft this morning about the availability of the Excel spreadsheet for internal Microsoft blogger December hit statistics. Last month I had written a program to show MS Bloggers hit statistics. So I ran the program
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