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How-ToCome watch and see how to give your apps that polished feel with techniques including generating thumbnails, adding gradients, sending mail, and using non-rectangular windows. Problems playing videos? |
| Accessing the Registry
The .NET Framework provides functionality to access the windows registry through a number of simple classes. In this video a Windows Form application is used to illustrate multiple uses for registry access in .NET applications.
| | File System Watcher
See how to easily monitor file and folder activity from applications. This video introduces the FileSystemWatcher class with Visual Basic .NET.
| | Generating Thumbnails
This video demonstrates how to generate a thumbnail image using the .NET Framework GDI+ Imaging class.
| | Working with Popular Image Types
This video shows how to access and output statistics of image files in various popular formats.
| | Print Preview
In this video, you'll learn how the PrintPreviewDialog gives users a chance to see exactly how their pages will be laid out without wasting a single piece of paper.
| | Sending Mail
In the past, sending mail required installing and referencing the CDONTS COM objects. This video shows how to use the built-in System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail class to easily send e-mail through SMTP.
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| | Creating Gradients
The .NET Framework includes a new and powerful graphics library known as GDI+. This video introduces you to the GDI+ classes and shows how to create rich graphical applications using Visual Basic .NET.
| | Folder Browser
With Visual Basic 6.0, using the system folder browser dialog required calls to the Win32 API. This video shows how easy it is to add a folder browser dialog to a Windows Form application using Visual Basic .NET.
| | Image Manipulation
This video demonstrates advanced image manipulation features available in the GDI+ classes, and how they make working with images in Visual Basic .NET easier than in previous versions of Visual Basic.
| | Nonrectangular Forms
In this video, you'll learn two techniques for creating nonrectangular controls. One uses non-rectangular or "skinned" controls. The second technique starts with building a GraphicsPath object programmatically.
| | Resolve Host Name
This video shows how to use the System.Net namespace to resolve a host name to the IP addresses in its public DNS record.
| | Transparent Forms
In this video, you'll learn how the opacity property of Windows Forms allows you to create transparent forms.
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Video Problems?
If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the WMP9 codecs (or WMP9 itself, although that is not a requirement). If you are experiencing clipping or problems resizing the videos then you may wish to try the following steps;
- In Windows Media Player, click Options on the Tools menu.
- On the Performance tab, click Advanced.
- Clear the Use video mixing renderer check boxes in the Video Acceleration and DVD Video sections.
- Click OK, and then click OK.
- Your system may need to be rebooted in order for changes to take effect.
More information on this video issue can be found in this KB article.
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