Solving problems with Off-the-shelf components and tools

The Dev Direct Solution Center contains shows you how to solve common problems using off-the-shelf code libraries and tools. Each problem has solutions from different publishers illustrating how their products can be used to solve the problem in question. All solutions come with ready to run downloadable projects with source code in common languages like C#.Net, VB.Net and Java.

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Grid

 • How to display a grid with heirarchical grouping (1)

Installation & Distribution

 • How to add an auto update capability to your applications (1)

FTP & SFTP

 • How can I implement the SFTP protocol to securely transfer files over the Internet? (1)

Email

 • How do I access an SSL Enabled SMTP Server from code using SMTP, IMAP and POP3 protocols? (1)
 • I need to access my POP3 mailbox from inside my program to list and download messages (2)
 • Save Email Message (1)
 • How to send emails direct from my application? (1)

Search Engines

 • How to add a site search capability to a web site. (1)

Data Encryption

 • I'm want my code to generate an MD5 hash of my file so that people can check it has not been modified (1)
 • I need my application to encrypt an entire file before I send it over the Intenet. (1)

Document Conversion

 • .html file to .doc and .doc to .pdf converion example code (1)

Barcode

 • How can I extract a barcode value from a scanned document? (2)

File Upload/Download

 • Multiple File DownLoad using ftp (1)

HTTP & HTTPS

 • How can I download an HTML page and parse its contents from inside my program? (1)

PDF Creation

 • How can I generate a PDF document file from within my program? (1)
 • How to Generate a PDF document from an editable template (1)

PDF Printing

 • Printing PDF documents (2)