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The Provider Model
By:
Paul Sheriff
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December
In this article you will learn how to isolate yourself from change by taking advantage of the Provider Model.Designing your applications using the Provider Model will allow you to swap components out at runtime, thus allowing you to upgrade them easily.
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Chapter 3 - The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
Although you can create lots of kinds of projects both for Windows and the Web with Visual Basic 2010, there is a common set of files for each project. In this chapter you learn which files give the structure to each project and how the files influence the building of an application. You also get an overview of references, namespaces, classes, modules, and Visual Basic keywords.
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Introduction to Crystal Reports .NET
By:
Dan Jurden
Last updated: Friday, December 5, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - July/August
In this article, Dan Jurden introduces Crystal Reports .NET as an integrated reporting tool within Visual Studio .NET, emphasizing its powerful features for creating, customizing, and viewing interactive reports in both Windows and Web applications. He demonstrates how to design reports using various data sources including ADO.NET datasets, how to add grouping, filtering, and conditional formatting, and how to publish and consume reports as Web services. Dan highlights the flexibility offered by the Crystal Reports .NET object model and viewer components, providing developers with efficient ways to deliver scalable, presentation-quality reports.
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.NET Tools Round-Up
By:
Stevenson, David
Last updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - May/June
May June 2002 Product News
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Top 10 .NET Framework Classes
By:
Powers, Lars,
Snell, Mike
Last updated: Monday, December 8, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - March/April
Microsoft .NET brings many important advances to the software engineering world.We believe that Windows developers everywhere have reason to celebrate the arrival of .NET, but Visual Basic developers should be the most ecstatic. We get true inheritance, structured exception handling, and a state-of-the-art IDE?but, perhaps the coolest thing .NET provides us as VB developers is the Framework Class Library (FCL). To commemorate the release of .NET, we thought we would present what we consider to be the top ten most useful, utterly awesome (and coolest) classes bundled inside the .NET FCL.
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Custom .NET Windows Forms Controls
By:
Patel, Kamal
Last updated: Sunday, December 7, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - January/February
The .Net framework provides two base classes for controls; one for Windows forms and the other for ASP.NET server controls.We can extend the existing controls by adding specific functionality to them or develop our own controls from scratch. Such controls are called custom controls. We can also group controls together and create another control, such as an address box, that contains couple of textboxes and labels. Controls that are grouped together and are based on System.Winforms.UserControl are called user controls. This article explains the process of creating a user control and demonstrates how we can extend the functionality of the framework's DateTimePicker control.
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XML to Database using .NET's XmlTextReader
By:
Wahlin, Dan
Last updated: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - January/February
Dan Wahlin demonstrates how to efficiently parse XML and load it into a database using .NET's XmlTextReader by walking through a SQLGenerator class that streams tokens from a customers.xml file, extracts element text and attributes, builds INSERT statements for Northwind's Customers table (including handling multiple records and errors), and emphasizes XmlTextReader's low-memory, high-performance streaming advantage for large XML documents.
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