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Wouldn't it be nice to have a sizable command button in VB6? Face it. In the hidden recesses of your mind you have always wanted to be able to resize that command button in VB6--after the program is running that is. It's just that VB6 has not provided you with …

I will be showing how to pass data between two forms in VB .NET. I will be using two forms, two classes which we will define, a delegate, an event, and an event handler. It is my first tutorial and is a bit long because I wanted to make it …

# Performing Selective Includes in Entity Framework with the Fluent API # When we are using Entity Framework as our data access choice to work with SQL Server then there are some potential pitfalls. One of these pitfalls is doing selective includes. What do I mean by selective includes? To …

Yesterday i completed my exercises on loop , that's why today i've decided to create a tutorial on loop in c++. # Loop # loop allows us to repeat a statement or a group of statements. When we want to repeat a single statement then it is not necessary to …

**Problems 1: Spiral matrix - Advanced** Source of the problem: [Here (not in English)](http://www.spoj.com/PTIT/problems/BCACM11B/) Spiral matrix is formed by filling number 1 in 1st row 1st column, after that, filling with increasing number by clockwise, example: 1 2 3 4 5 16 17 18 19 6 15 24 25 20 …

As usual, after learning new stuff, I write on it. Yesterday I finished learning on "Functions in C++" and found that functions are very easy to learn and useful. Hope this tutorial helps beginners. # What is function? # Sometimes when we want to execute a specific task wherever it's …

This tutorial is designed to get someone started with D that hasn't used it yet, it assumes you have some type of programming experience. # What is D? # In one sentence (from [dlang.org](http://dlang.org)) *"D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing. It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and …

File I/O With C++ Fstream **Intro** File handling is as simple as writing in a book, much easier to modify and find. It's so simple people get confused with it :-). Welcome to the world of file handling. We will use the c++ fstream classes to do our file handling. …

Here's a simple tutorial on dictionaries in Python: Dictionaries: Dictionaries are similar to other compound types except that they can use any immutable type as an index. One way to create a dictionary is to start with the empty dictionary and add items. The empty dictionary is denoted {}: [CODE]end2sp …

# Tutorial On Operators# *Operators are the signs to the tell the compiler to perform specific task*. The Operators fall into following categories :- Arithmatic Operator Relational Operator Logical Operator Bitwise Operator Miscellaneous Operator(i added Assignment Operators in this categeory) **Arithmatic operators:-** There are following arithmetic operators:- + Add [6+2=8] …

##Why Use Arrays?## Let's begin by considering why arrays might be needed. What is the problem that this feature solves? How does it make your life as a programmer easier? When studying new features, it's important to recognize what that feature does for you and where the incentive is in …

I will be showing how to pass data between two forms in C#. I will be using two forms, two classes which we will define, a delegate, an event, and an event handler. It is a bit long because I wanted to make it easy to follow. If you want …

[B]!USING PYTHON 3.1![/B] Hello DaniWeb! Today I'm going to be posting a [B]simple[/B] threading tutorial. First of all, what is threading? Well, threading is just another way of doing a side task without interrupting the main program. Now here's a simple example. Let's say we are going to make a …

Hi All! This article is mainly focused at someone who is completely new to Software versioning. In this article, we see how Git can be used as a tool for versioning software. Please note that this is very brief. There are many videos/articles that deal in detail. 1) **What is …

One of the most important things to understand when automating office, is that it's heavily [search]OOP[/search], and therefore you are forced to work with objects. In order to create an object that is external to your application (for example an office application, whereas a button or textbox would be internal …

[B]Beginner's guide to C++0x: Avoiding Memory Problems by Design of Ownership[/B] If you ever read any resources on C++ programming or object-oriented programming, you must have heard some rethorics like "inheritance is for the [I]is a[/I] relation, composition is for the [I]has a[/I] relation". Is that all? Is that the …

[B]Beginner's Guide to C++0x: The Big Five - Implementing a Resource-holding RAII Class[/B] This tutorial will show how to implement a [I]resource-holding class[/I] showing practical use of [I]C++0x features[/I]. A resource-holding class is any class which holds, with its data members, a resource which could include: [LIST] [*]dynamically allocated memory …

Probably the simplest way to get into multimedia with Python is the webbrowser module. This works with both Windows and Unix systems, and selects the default browser you have installed. But that is not all: if you give it the name of a multimedia file it will select the default …

Very early on when attempting to learn programming in C, you often do exercises that read in and print out strings and numbers. Now you might assume that C has a simple function that will get user input, and indeed it does, but there are a couple of gotchas that …

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has updated.NET and the C# language, both now at version 4. One of the new features of C# is the ability to handle dynamic types. But what exactly does that mean? Essentially, if you're very careful, you can use C# in …

Regex is one of the more complicated modules that you can use in python. Once you have learnt it though you can use it many different programming languages, so its a useful tool for using with strings. So first to use regex you must import it [code] import re [/code] …