On this page you will find an overview of all articles that I have written since 1997. The more recent articles deal with software development with .NET (C#, Visual Studio, LINQ, WPF, Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, ...) in particular. The older articles were often written for the purposes of courses or demonstrations at my computerclub and these articles are mostly about photo editing, databases, Windows, Office, Delphi and PHP.
Below the most recent additions are shown. Use the left panel to filter the more than 100 articles.
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The Entity Framework together with LINQ to Entities are very powerful technologies to access and manipulate data from a database. But when you need to gain performance or need extra security, stored procedures and user defined functions are often required. In this first article in a series of three I will focus on how to use stored procedures in the Entity Framework 4.0.
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2010-08-30 - English - .NET, Entity Framework, Database
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Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 offer a lot of new features. I like all the new features but I was especially interested in improvements that could help my current developments which are based on a M-V-VM architecture with ViewModels and a lot of bindings with UI controls. In this article I will focus on the new design-time features. Along the way I will show a lot of screenshots and try to cover some other new Silverlight 4 features. more
2010-01-17 - English - .NET, Silverlight
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Silverlight and RIA Services are great technologies and the Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM) pattern is a nice approach to keep UI and logic separated. But using the combination of view models with item controls, dataforms and commands can be a laborious task because the databinding features in Silverlight are quite limited. In this article I will demonstrate how binding with ViewModels can be improved by using the BindingHelper class and by creating your own command behaviors. more
2009-08-23 - English - .NET, Silverlight
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A few months ago Microsoft released the first preview of .NET RIA Services. This new framework promises to simplify building n-tier Line of Business (LoB) applications by providing patterns, components and tools to build services, query data, handle CRUD operations, resolve concurrency, manage data validation, ... In this first article I will focus on the current limitations and I will offer you some of my workarounds and tips. more
2009-05-17 - English - .NET, RIA Services, Silverlight
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My personal website SCIP.be has been updated and now it offers several new features and improvements. There is support for Media RSS feeds and the great browser plugin CoolIris which can be used to navigate through photo galleries in 3D. All images are improved, articles are linked to several categories and pages can be shared more easily. more
2009-04-23 - English - SCIP.be
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LINQPad was introduced in 2007 and nowadays it is a very mature tool which should be in the toolbox of every .NET developer. Version 1.35 offers new connection providers and it has native support for LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework data models. It also provides new query types like SQL and Entity-SQL. In this small article I will highlight some of the new features. more
2009-04-14 - English - .NET, LINQPad, LINQ, Entity Framework
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A common problem when developing Silverlight applications is how to share classes and in particular (Entity Framework) entities which are compiled for the full .NET framework in a Silverlight application. Silverlight is a browser plugin and a subset of the full .NET framework. Therefore Visual Studio does not allow referencing .NET assemblies from your Silverlight application. In this article I will demonstrate a very simple technique to share source code and it will give several real world examples and some handy tips. more
2009-01-27 - English - .NET, Silverlight, Entity Framework, WCF
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This small article contains a few C# scripts which can be executed in LINQPad to clean up and organize Outlook mailboxes. If you want to keep Outlook performing as fast as possible and to reduce the size of mailboxes then these scripts and my OutlookProvider component can simplify this job. more
2009-01-24 - English - .NET, Office, Outlook, LINQ, LINQPad
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In addition to my article about querying the metadata of the ADO.NET Entity Framework I have implemented several extension methods that utilize this metadata. This article will describe a set of extension methods which can be used to extend the standard Entity Framework classes (ObjectQuery, EntityObject, ObjectStateManager, ...). more
2009-01-12 - English - .NET, Entity Framework
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A while ago I was looking for a way to query Excel with LINQ. I needed a simple solution that allowed me to query tables in Excel worksheets in a tool like LINQPad. This article will describe how I implemented my ExcelProvider and it will demonstrate its features by giving an example of a LINQ query and the result in LINQPad. more
2008-12-17 - English - .NET, Office, Excel, LINQ, LINQPad
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A few months ago I posted several articles about the ADO.NET Entity Framework beta 3. In the meanwhile the Entity Framework has been officially released and a lot of resources about this technology have become available. In the last few weeks I have been taking a closer look at the metadata services. This article will demonstrate 20 examples which use LINQ to query the metadata collections of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. These queries can be used to examine the structure of your Entity Data Model or to get statistics about it. more
2008-12-02 - English - .NET, Entity Framework
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A few months ago I published an article about my LINQ AsHierarchy extension method. This extension method can be used to convert a flat collection of records to a hierarchical structure of nested collections. I got a lot of enthusiastic responses and questions so I decided to improve this technique a little further. This new article will describe the new features and demonstrates how to use the LINQ to Objects and the new LINQ to SQL AsHierarchy extension methods. more
2008-08-25 - English - .NET, LINQ, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL
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Data binding is one of the most powerful features of WPF/Silverlight. It allows developers to achieve more with less code. However, when building user interfaces with WPF/Silverlight, you often need to create your own value converters. A common mistake is to implement custom value converters for each and every binding that requires one. Of course value converters can be generalized an re-used. In this article I will show you the source code of my library of generic custom value converters and I will demonstrate in which scenarios you can use them. more
2008-07-17 - English - .NET, WPF, Silverlight
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This article will demonstrate how to use the Google Maps HTTP geocoding service and how to handle REST services and XML in general. The Google Maps service can be used to retrieve the latitude, longitude and a lot of other geographical data from a given address. more
2008-06-20 - English - .NET, GIS/Geocoding
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WPF UIAutomation is a framework from Microsoft to automate Windows applications. In this article I will demonstrate a lot of features (invoking button clicks, focusing controls, entering data, sending keystrokes, subscribing to events, ...) and compare it with the open-source project White. more
2008-06-06 - English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms
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This short article covers the most important features of the open-source White framework and the Microsoft UISpy tool. White can be used for UI automation and my C# .NET application demonstrates how to automate the Windows calculator by sending keystrokes, clicking on buttons and menus, pressing function keys, accessing textboxes, ... more
2008-05-04 - English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms
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This article explains how to convert data from a self referencing table (adjacency model) to a hierarchy of nested collections (nested set model). The new LINQ AsHierarchy() extension method can be used to convert data and bind it to WPF TreeViews. more
2008-03-29 - English - .NET, LINQ, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL
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This small article about the Windows Presentation Foundation will demonstrate how to use a WPF ProcessingControl and a BackgroundWorker thread to create responsive user interfaces and how to give visual feedback about the progress. more
2008-03-11 - English - .NET, WPF
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In this third part of my series of articles about the ADO.NET Entity Framework I will demonstrate how to add and modify data, use change tracking and handle concurrency conflicts. I have also implemented a Dump() extension method which can be useful for displaying all change tracking information. more
2008-02-25 - English - .NET, Entity Framework
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A new version of the open-source PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designer has been released. These add-ins provides additional functionality for the Visual Studio Class Designer, such as HTML/XML export, new creation commands, filtering commands, formatting commands, a pan/zoom window, a documentation window, a floating properties window, ... This small post describes how to install it and shows a screenshot which highlights almost all features. more
2008-02-23 - English - .NET, Visual Studio, Tools
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This post briefly describes how to integrate a WPF user control in a Windows Forms application. It also provides a workaround to solve the background color problem of the ElementHost class. This workaround will demonstrate how you can map properties between Windows Forms controls and WPF UI elements. more
2008-02-21 - English - .NET, WPF, WinForms
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Second part of my series of articles about the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This article covers a few handy testing and learning tools like eSqlBlast and LINQPad. It also describes a few techniques on how to view the generated T-SQL statements when executing Entity SQL or LINQ to Entities queries. more
2008-02-06 - English - .NET, Entity Framework, LINQPad
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A few weeks ago Microsoft released Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). The Entity Framework looks like an interesting technology which is more powerful and advanced than LINQ to SQL. I have created a small tutorial on how to start with the Entity Framework using the Northwind sample database. This first article covers the Entity Data Model (EDM), Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities. I will try to compare EF to LINQ to SQL if possible. more
2008-01-28 - English - .NET, Entity Framework
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Fourth part of this series of articles about LINQ to SQL (.NET 3.5). This article shows the features of the 2 provided visualizers (LINQ to SQL Visualizer & Expression Tree Visualizer), the use of the Refresh method and how to create dynamic strong-typed Where- and OrderBy-clauses. Powerful expression trees can be created easily by using the PredicateBuilder class. more
2008-01-07 - English - .NET, LINQ to SQL
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Last week version 4 of the Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio was released. Mole is a great visualizer while debugging WPF, WinForms and WCF applications. Mole does not only allow you to view objects and data, it also allows you to drill into properties and child objects. A lot of properties can be modified and the result is displayed in a live preview. more
2008-01-04 - English - .NET, Visual Studio, Tools
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A few examples about .NET WPF applications using LINQ to SQL. This article will describe how to create nice looking treeviews which are populated with data using LINQ to SQL (or LINQ to Entities). Of course resources, templates, styles, datatriggers, value converters, ... will be utilized. Most examples will also work with Silverlight. more
2007-12-22 - English - .NET, WPF, Silverlight, LINQ to SQL
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First tests with the Community Tech Preview of the Parallel Extensions for .NET 3.5. A comparison between sequential and parallel execution is made on the basis of charts. PLINQ and the ParallelTask Library can surely improve the performance of .NET applications. more
2007-12-14 - English - .NET, LINQ
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In this article I will show you how to create a ValueConverter class which can be used in a WPF application to display the pictures of the Outlook contacts. more
2007-12-08 - English - .NET, Office, Outlook, LINQ, WPF
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This short article is an addition to my 'Querying Outlook and OneNote with LINQ' article. It describes how you can utilize the free LINQPad tool to execute queries on Office data. more
2007-11-25 - English - .NET, Office, Outlook, OneNote, LINQ, LINQPad
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In this article I will describe how I developed two wrapper classes for Outlook and OneNote. These classes can be used to execute LINQ to Objects (.NET 3.5) queries on emails, appointments, tasks, contacts, notebooks, sections, pages, ... So you could call it LINQ to Outlook and LINQ to OneNote. more
2007-11-14 - English - .NET, Office, Outlook, OneNote, LINQ
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Third part of this series of articles about LINQ to SQL (.NET 3.5). This article includes some useful tips about adding sequences and using variables in a LINQ query. Further more the techniques of eager loading and query compiling are covered. more
2007-11-04 - English - .NET, LINQ to SQL
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An article about LINQ to SQL with examples of how to use the LINQPad tool and how to implement inheritance with LINQ. more
2007-09-09 - English - .NET, LINQ to SQL, LINQPad
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An article about LINQ to SQL (Visual Studio 2008 bčta 2) with a lot of code examples using the Northwind database. Following topics are being covered : querying, view entities, view SQL statements, local data shaping, non-mapped properties in partial entity classes, object Relation Diagram versus Class Diagram, data shaping with non-mapped properties, change tracking, bulk operations. more
2007-08-30 - English - .NET, LINQ to SQL
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Overview of all kinds of interesting freeware and open source developer tools, plugins and components for Delphi and .NET (GExperts, DDevExtensions, CFBH, MemProof, GPProfiler, FastMM, JEDI, WinSpector, Yapp, SourceMonitor, LINQ for SQL Visualizer, Cache Visualizer, Reflector, Resourcer, Managed Spy, Snippet Compiler, FxCop, NUnit & DUnit, ColorPic, ...) more
2007-04-18 - English - Tools, Delphi, .NET
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Collection of placemarks (KMZ) for Google Earth for all the places I visited in Cambodia. more
2007-03-10 - English - GIS/Geocoding
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Collection of placemarks (KMZ) for Google Earth of my home city Lommel in the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. more
2007-01-28 - Dutch - GIS/Geocoding
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Overview of all icons which can be used to create placemarks in Google Earth. more
2007-01-27 - English - GIS/Geocoding
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Article about the fascinating features of Google Earth version 4.0 (layers, paths, placemarks, 3D buildings, ...) more
2007-01-20 - Dutch - GIS/Geocoding
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Short article about the best settings which can be used to create high quality DVD videos with Magix. more
2007-01-09 - Dutch - Multimedia
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Overview of all VisualStyleElements (XP theme elements) which can be used when drawing on a GDI+ drawing surface. more
2006-12-31 - English - .NET, WinForms
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Delphi and C# .NET examples how to add files to the 'recent files' menu or how to clear this part of the Start menu. more
2006-10-22 - Dutch - .NET, Delphi
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This article 'Developing Pocket PC applications with Delphi 2006' has been published on the CodeGear (Borland) Developer Network website on July 5th 2006. It describes the differences between the .NET and the .NET Compact Framework, how to utilize the Windows Mobile emulators and how using the CFBH tool and the Oosterkamp Class Helpers can make it a lot easier to develop Pocket PC applications with Delphi. more
2006-07-07 - English - .NET, Delphi, Compact Framework
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Presentation about the Delphi TscExcelExport component. This TscExcelExport component is an advanced, powerful but easy to use component which enables you to export all records of a dataset from Borland/Codegear Delphi to Microsoft Excel. Many features are provided to change the layout, use conditional formatting, add totals, create groups, set a filter, ... more
 (PDF) - 2006-04-01 - English - .NET, Delphi
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This article provides a few ideas, tips and tricks on how to create nice looking multimedia travel coverage. It demonstrates how to create animated maps, use panoramic photos, ... in DVD videos. more
2005-09-22 - Dutch - Multimedia
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This article describes the preview version of the Borland Delphi for .NET CF compiler. The preview of this compiler can be used by Delphi developers in exploring the world of the .NET Compact Framework on Pocket PC's or Smartphones. A lot of controls and how to use them, the emulators and several tools will be demonstrated. more
2005-09-11 - English - .NET, Delphi, Compact Framework
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This article shows a way of creating handy extensions for the Delphi Tools menu. Most Delphi developers like to add some extra tools like resource editors, database managers, report designers, ... I have created some Visual Basic scripts (VBScripts, VBS) to open a help file or PDF document, open an URL in your web browser, create a zipped backup file, create a list of PAS files, compile your project with the .NET CF compiler, ... more
2005-08-15 - English - Delphi, Tools, Scripting
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This article, which is written in Dutch, describes which exceptions/errors can occur in MS SQL Server and how they can be handled in stored procedures and with ADO components in Delphi. Furthermore this article describes some ideas of how to develop your own error message window to show errors in the language of the end user. more
2005-04-16 - Dutch - Delphi, Database
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At the end of the eighties the Atari computers with the TOS operating system became very popular. This article describes how to use the emulator Steem to run old Atari ST/TT applications on your Windows PC. Furthermore a lot of screenshots of old popular Atari programs, games and my own developed applications are included. more
(PDF) - 2005-02-01 - Dutch - Tools
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Version control systems (VCS) are applications which are used when you need to share source code (Delphi, C++, VB, C#, Java, PHP, HTML, ...) with all members in a team. This article, which is written in Dutch, describes some common principles (check-in, check-out, merging, branching, shelving), it gives an overview of the most popular VCS tools (SourceSafe, SVC, SubVersion, StarTeam, ...) and it provides some info of how to use Visual SourceSafe. more
(PDF) - 2005-01-22 - Dutch - Tools
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This small article shows some screenshots of what SCIP.be looks like on a Pocket PC or Smartphone. My website has been optimized to be displayed on small devices. more
2005-01-07 - English - SCIP.be
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A comprehensive article about all features in Delphi to use stored procedures to return data to the client. The examples are tested with ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), DBX (dbExpress) and IBX (InterBase Express) components and databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle en Firebird/Interbase. more
2004-12-26 - English - Delphi, Database
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This article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates the scGetFileList function which can be used to generate a list with file information. This function can be handy to build dynamic PHP pages which show thumbnails and links to files. more
2004-12-18 - Dutch - Webdevelopment, PHP
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In a lot of PHP scripts you need to access a MySQL database and therefore you need to write a lot of code to make a connection, execute a query, check the result, ... This article demonstrates how this can be simplified with some functions. more
2004-12-18 - Dutch - Webdevelopment, PHP
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A lot of welcome pages on websites force the user to choose a language. This can be done better by checking the IP-address, resolving the corresponding country and then proposing a language. This article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates how to build some PHP functions to resolve the user language. more
2004-12-18 - Dutch - Webdevelopment, PHP
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Smarty is an open-source template engine for PHP. It makes it possible to separate the HTML pages (content) and the PHP code (logic). Therefore it becomes a lot easier to maintain and reuse your PHP code. This small article shows the most interesting features of Smarty like building HTML tables, replacing tags, ... more
2004-12-18 - Dutch - Webdevelopment, PHP
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An article about RSS. What is it? How can you read RSS-feeds? And how can you create XML RSS files in PHP, Delphi or .NET? This small article tries to give an overview. more
2004-11-29 - Dutch - IT, Webdevelopment
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This is a small article, written in Dutch, which demonstrates how to export data from Outlook (agenda, contacts, ...) to Access. In Access these data can be used to build queries or reports. more
(PDF) - 2004-09-04 - Dutch - Office, Outlook, Access
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This PDF file contains a lot of examples and exercises about JavaScript. It handles windows, frames, arrays, form validation, images, DHTML tables, ... more
(PDF) - 2004-03-01 - Dutch - Webdevelopment, Scripting
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This is a small report, which is written in Dutch, about the application Magix Photos on CD&DVD. This software makes it possible to create good looking multimedia presentations which can be played on a DVD player on your TV. more
(PDF) - 2004-03-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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Short report about the features of Ulead DVD PictureShow which can be used to create photo slideshows on VCD, SVCD or DVD. more
(PDF) - 2003-12-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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HTML-Kit is a great freeware editor for the creation of webpages. The application supports all kinds of web files and scripting languages like HTML, XML, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, CSS, ... The editor provides syntax highlighting and code completion. In this document, which is written in Dutch, I will summarize the most interesting features. more
(PDF) - 2003-11-01 - Dutch - Webdevelopment
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ACDSee is one of the best viewers for all kinds of graphical file formats. But this application has a lot more features; it allows you to resize/crop images, convert images to other file formats, rename files in batch, manage albums, view file info and EXIF info, ... In this article, which is written in Dutch, I will show how ACDSee can be used to view, edit and manage photos. more
(PDF) - 2003-08-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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This short article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates how you can use ACDSee and Corel PhotoPaint to edit a photo. Brightness, contrast and sharpness are often the key ingredients to improve a photo. more
(PDF) - 2003-07-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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This document gives a short summary of the different kinds of memory cards for digital cameras like Compact Flash, SD, MemoryStick, Smart Media, xD, ... more
(PDF) - 2003-07-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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Even if you wrote a program in a disciplined, well-structured, careful manner, you will probably still need to debug it to find some bugs. Delphi offers great debugging tools and when you know how to use them, you will surely save a lot of time finding the exact reason of the problem. In this small tutorial I will explain some nice features in Delphi which will help you to debug your programs. Because it is better to avoid bugs, I will also give a few tips to make better programs. more
(PDF) - 2003-06-01 - English - Delphi
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JPG or JPEG is the most used file format for photos and images. This file format offers compression but this also leads to quality loss. In this small document I will show the differences between compression, file size and quality of JPG files. more
(PDF) - 2003-05-01 - Dutch - Multimedia
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This document has been used in a brief training about databases and SQL. It explains all the key concepts of a database (tables, records, fields, keys, referential integrity, indexes, triggers, stored procedures, transactions, ...). Furthermore it gives an overview of the different databases and tools and it gives an introduction to SQL for querying and modifying a database. more
(PDF) - 2003-02-01 - Dutch - Database
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This document shows a lot of examples of SQL and it contains several exercises. more
(PDF) - 2003-02-01 - Dutch - Database
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This small article describes how you can create and manage restore points in Windows XP. more
2002-09-02 - Dutch - Windows
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This article gives some tips and tricks to improve the performance of Windows XP and it shows some hidden features. more
2002-07-01 - Dutch - Windows
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This small article about Windows XP demonstrates the new feature of the Windows Explorer like thumbnails, grouping, templates, ... more
2002-07-01 - Dutch - Windows
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This small article describes how you can manage several users and how you can change security in Windows XP. more
2002-07-01 - Dutch - Windows
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This article, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of the history of OOP (Object Oriented Programming). The first principles were designed in the sixties. After the language Simula, other languages like Smalltalk, ADA, Prolog, C++, Object Pascal, Java and C# followed. more
2002-06-01 - Dutch - IT
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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the most used methodologies to describe a process which can be understood by analysts, developers and clients. This document, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of UML and shows the different graphical elements which correspond to principles from object oriented programming (OOP). more
(PDF) - 2002-06-01 - Dutch - IT
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This article, which is written in Dutch, explains some a few dangers on the internet and describes how you can prevent your PC from being infected with viruses, worms, hoaxes, ... more
2002-05-28 - Dutch - IT
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MemProof is one of the best heap memory and resource 'leaks' debuggers - this means the MemProof will help you find pointers and other various resources that you allocate but forget to free. This article describes how you use MemProof to find memory and resource leaks in your Delphi applications and it gives a few tips of how to avoid these problems. more
2002-04-01 - English - Delphi, Tools
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This article demonstrates some features of my freeware application Picto. This article shows the fastest way to create a glyph containing 3 images which will represent the different states of a button. This new glyph will be used for a TSpeedButton in Delphi or C++Builder. more
2001-06-10 - English - Tools, Multimedia
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This article demonstrates some features of my freeware application Picto. It shows you how to fill an imagelist with the small icons of all sorts of applications on your hard disk. Afterwards we will copy this TImageList component to Delphi or C++Builder and use it for a TTreeView component. more
2001-06-10 - English - Tools, Multimedia
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This article demonstrates a few features of my freeware application Picto. This example will show how to create images which can be used as beveled web buttons. more
2001-06-10 - English - Tools, Multimedia
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This article gives an overview of all file formats which can contain icons like ICO, CUR, EXE, DLL, SCR, ICL, OCX, BPL, RES, DCR, ANI, ... files. more
2001-01-20 - Dutch - Multimedia
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In the Windows Shell (= Explorer) several Windows API functions are available to copy, move, delete and rename files. Delphi has some older CopyFile, DeleteFile, MkDir, ... functions but the new Shell functions do have several advantages. This article shows all the Delphi examples you need. more
2000-09-02 - English - Delphi
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This article shows an overview of the system management features of Windows 2000 like logs, shared folders, services, ODBC, performance, ... more
2000-09-02 - Dutch - Windows
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This article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates how you can modify the visualization of folders by modifying HTML templates. more
2000-09-02 - Dutch - Windows
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This document, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of the history of the computer. Everything started long ago with mechanical calculators and only in the forties the first 'computers' were developed. Since the '80s PC's also found their way to the consumer. more
(PDF) - 1999-07-01 - Dutch - IT
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This small article gives several tips and tricks for Windows 98 like hidden utilities, shortcuts, interesting registry keys, ... more
1999-03-01 - Dutch - Windows
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This article gives some tips to write readable and well structured Delphi programs and to avoid bugs and memory leaks. It also gives an overview of the most useful shortcuts for Delphi. more
1999-01-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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Sometimes you need to start an external application from your own application. In the past this could be done with the WinAPI function WinExec. Nowadays it is better to use the ShellExecute (unit ShellAPI) function. This function can also be used to open an URL, to create an email and to open a file with the application which is linked in the Windows Explorer. This article shows several examples. more
1999-01-01 - English - Delphi
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In Delphi it is quite easy to open an URL (Universal Resource Location) in your webbrowser by using the WinAPI function ShellExecute (unit ShellAPI). This function is generally used to start applications but it can also be used for calling some internet protocols like MailTo, HyperText Tranfer Protocol (http), File Tranfer Protocol (ftp), News, Telnet, ... This article shows a few examples. more
1998-12-01 - English - Delphi
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There is a very nice Shell API function which can be used to retrieve the icon of a file or folder (ShGetFileInfo). In combination with the FindFirst function of Delphi you can create a very useful function which returns all information about a given file. This article shows a detailed example. more
1998-12-01 - English - Delphi
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Almost all Windows applications show a splash screen on startup. Meanwhile other forms will be created. This article demonstrates how you can make your own splash screen in Delphi. more
1998-12-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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The Windows Scripting Host is a scripting language for 32-bit Windows based platforms. Since Windows 98 this is integrated in the operating system. New ActiveX controls and the WSH offer a lot of advantages compared to old MS-DOS batch files. This article shows several WSH and VBScript examples. more
1998-08-26 - Dutch - Scripting
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This article contains several examples of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) functions for Excel. more
1998-08-26 - Dutch - Office, Excel, Scripting
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Delphi offers many features for drawing and painting lines, circles, rectangles, bitmaps, ... and for defining fonts and colors. This article shows several Delphi examples. more
1998-07-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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It is quite easy to create drag and drop support in run-time. This article shows how to accomplish this in Delphi. more
1998-07-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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In forms in which a lot of input is done on the keyboard it can be handy to support the enter key for tabbing to the following input control. This article shows how to do this in Delphi. more
1998-07-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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This article gives an overview of all operators (>, <=, between, like, and, ...), expressions and functions (count, sum, right, year, len) which can be used to create SELECT queries in MS Access. more
1998-07-01 - Dutch - Office, Access
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This article gives a long list of tips and tricks of how to modify registry keys in Windows 95 to enable extra features or to disable features. more
1998-05-12 - Dutch - Windows
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This article describes the new features of DOS in Windows 95 and it explains what can be done with the IO.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. more
1998-05-12 - Dutch - Windows
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This article describes several tricks to install or uninstall Windows 95 (Extract, CabView, startup disk, command-line parameters, ...). more
1998-05-12 - Dutch - Windows
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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction. Examples are level, 1001, madam, 5445, kayak. This article shows examples in Delphi, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript and VBScript of how to generate numerical palindromes. Furthermore the performance of these programs will be compared. more
1998-03-18 - Dutch - Delphi
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Anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution. Anti-aliasing is used in digital photography, computer graphics, digital audio and many other applications. This article shows how anti- aliasing is calculated and how to use it in Delphi. more
1998-02-01 - Dutch - Delphi
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