User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls: Custom Controls
Custom controls are a key theme in .NET development. They can help your programming style by improving encapsulation, simplifying a programming model, and making user interface more “pluggable” (i.e., making it easier to swap out one control and replace it with a completely different one without rewriting your form code). Of course, custom controls can have other benefits, including the ability to transform a generic window into a state-of-the-art modern interface.
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Creating a Custom Panel Written in C# - For Implementation in Ascent Capture 7.5
This document will walk you through creating a custom panel written in C#. The custom panel is designed to run in the Quality Control module and provides an easy way to unreject multiple Documents and Pages as viewed in the Batch Contents window. This panel uses a ToolStrip control containing three image and text buttons.
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What Perl Programmers Should Know About Java
What should Perl programmers know about Java? It depends. Not knowing Java will not slow you down as a Perl programmer. However, Java is a popular and rapidly growing language, so there’s a good chance that you will find yourself using Java systems or writing applications that need to interact with them. In some situations, writing a Java application may be a good way to accomplish something that you cannot easily do in Perl.
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PHP/MySQL Tutorial
Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the last six to eight months, you’ve heard of open source software (OSS). This movement has got so much momentum that even the big boys are taking notice. Companies like Oracle, Informix, and a host of others are releasing their flagship database products for that poster child of the OSS movement, Linux.
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PHP/MySQL Tutorial
Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. According to Graeme, PHP and MySQL are the world’s best combination for creating data-driven sites. In the first installment of this three-lesson tutorial, our Kiwi guide covers everything you need to know to begin developing database hubs. He gives instructions for installation on both Unix and Windows, and then goes on to show some simple scripts that will insert information into a database and display that data on a Web page.
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