Articles by Mahesh Chand

In this article, I will show you how you can collect information about your site visitors using ASP.NET classes.

Pens and fonts are two common and most used objects in GDI+. This tutorial explains how to use pens and fonts in your VB.NET applications.

A transparent image is an image, which you can see through. To test this, you draw some graphics shapes on a surface and draw image on top of those shapes and you should be able to see the shapes. Alpha blending is a process of mixing colors and generating a transparent affect.

There are many questions on discussion forums about creating a web browser or using existing web browser ActiveX control in C# or VB.NET. This article explains how to add and web browser ActiveX to your project to developer your own customized web browser.

This program displays you a table properties such as its column names, types, and column properties. I have used a database mcTest.mdb which has a table called 'Developer'. You can download this attached database and change the path of the database according to your location.

In this application, I’ll create a SQL Server database, create a database table, add data to it, create database objects such as views, stored procedures, rules, and index and view data in the data grid using Sql data provider.

The XmlTextWriter class is derived from XmlWriter class, which represents a writer that provides fast non-cached forward-only way of generating XML documents based on the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification.In this article, I will show you how to use XmlTextWriter class to create an XML document and write data to the document.

In this article, I will show you how to use XmlTextReader class to read an XML document and write data to the console.

Learn how to use XmlDocument and XmlNode in VB.NET to insert XML data into new or existing XML documents.

The .Net DNS class can be used to get a host name or an IP of a given host name. To use DNS class in your project, you need to include System.Net.

The ODBC .NET data provider provides access to ODBC data sources with the help of native ODBC drivers in the same way that the OleDb .Net data provider accesses native OLE DB providers. One of the best things about working with ADO.NET data providers is all data providers define the similar class hierarchy. The only things you need to change are the classes and the connection string.

This simple program shows how access an access database using ADO.NET. It opens a database mcTest.mdb from your application directory.

Recently there was a discussion related to DataSet’s HasChanges and GetChanges methods. This article discusses the basics of DiffGrams and how DiffGram format is utilized by a DataSet to in this context.

CSDownloadURL is a class which has two functions - SetURL and DownloadURL. The set URL sets the current URL and GetDownload downloads the URL contents and returns its contents in a string.

In this article, I will show you how to access MySQL server database using ODBC data provider. There are two ways to access MySQL Server database using ODBC data providers. First, using ODBC data source name and second by passing connection string direct in the OdbcConnection object.

A status bar control is used to display the status of your applications functionality. You can add as many as panels to a status bar as you want and use these panels to display different type of information.

The Progressbar class provides progress bar control functionality in the .NET framework. You need progress bars to display the progress of your application or background tasks.

This article shows you how to add items to a ListBox control.

This article shows you how you can take advantage of Visual Studio .NET wizards to add images to a Toolbar control buttons.

By using control properties, you can give your program an interactive look as you see on web sites. One of them is mouse over. When you mouse over on a hyperlink, it changes the color.

The Timer control allows you to set a time interval to execute an event after that interval continuously. It is useful when you want to execute certain applications after a certain interval.

Learn how to use a VB.NET button control and its Image property to display images selected through an OpenFileDialog.

I'm writing this article in response to a question on discussion forums, How do I view multiple images on top of each other? Basically the guy has two images. One is a large image and second image is a small image and he wants to view small image on top of the large one. Even though I answered it on the forums and I knew that this is the answer, but I thought to test it by myself.

Commenting and following a uniform naming guidelines in your code is one of good programming practices to make code more useful. I've been programming with Microsoft products for almost 5 years. I don't know about you but I have faced many problems during integration and bug fixes due to developers not following a uniform naming and comments.

Commenting and following a uniform naming guidelines in your code is one of good programming practices to make code more useful. I've been programming with Microsoft products for almost 5 years. I don't know about you but I have faced many problems during integration and bug fixes due to developers not following a uniform naming and comments.