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Here are Dev Direct's latest code solutions which illustrate how to solve common problems quickly and elegantly using off-the-shelf tools and components. This list is updated every weekday morning.

	How to Update The Version Information of Your Compiled DLL or EXE Files Application developers often need a command-line utility to allow modification of file version information on existing Windows EXE or DLL files. While these files already contain the Version Info resource (embedded into the executable during linking), Resource Tuner Console enables you to automatically stamp their version during the release process to insure consistency. If these files contain no Version Information resource, Resource Tuner Console will create this resource for you.
	Extract barcodes from scanned documents with C/C++, VB, Delphi, C#, J#, VB .NET With Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX you can read/decode, write, search barcodes, and detect orientation of 1D, 2D and PDF417 barcodes. Image toolkit independent. Advanced error correction.
	Print PDF with WPViewPDF (Windows DLL, .NET, VCL, ActiveX) Using WPViewPDF You can print PDF files. Acrobat Reader(tm) does not have to be installed on the computer. This tool is useful to print PDF files created by your Application, for example using our tools wPDF, WPDFControl and RTF2PDF / TextDynamic Server. It is possible to print only selected files and to add overlays.
	Dynamic PDF creation - .NET, ASP, ASP.NET and ActiveX RTF2PDF can be easily used with ASP or ASP.NET to create HTML or PDF response output. A template can be loaded as RTF or HTML code, modified and then saved as RTF, HTML and PDF. It is possible to use merge fields, too. With the 'Reporting' addon it is possible to use meta tags to create bands which will be looped in the template. So it is also possible to create lists and master-client reports. RTF2PDF/TextDynamicServer has been designed to work in the background. We also market TextDynamic - it
	5 minutes to let your application recognize barcode from image To recognize barcode on images is an easy thing. Download and install the barcode reader toolkit and refer codes from the sample projects(VB, VC++, VC#, Delphi). The toolkit can help you accomplish the work with a few line of codes in 5 minutes.
	Printing existing PDF documents Our Amyuni PDF Creator products (available as an ActiveX control, a .NET component or a .NET library) will allow a developer to print existing PDF documents to hardware printers.
	How to Create a PDF document Our Amyuni PDF Creator products (available as an ActiveX control, a .NET component or a .NET library) will allow a developer to add or edit text to existing PDF documents or create a new PDF document by placing different PDF objects on a blank page.
	How to implement a web search application with the dtSearch Engine This article will explain how to implement a web-based search interface for a web site using the dtSearch Engine's .NET interface. Complete sample code for the interface described here is included with the dtSearch Engine in the examples\asp.net2 folder, in C# and VB.NET.
	Solution: How to display a grid with heirarchical grouping using TList Solution: How to display a grid with heirarchical grouping using TList The TList component allows the presentation ( and optionally editing ) of data in a combination Tree / Grid style. Data can be presented in either a multi-column Tree, or with parent branches of a tree holding child items in grids. Full support for colors, fonts, and of course expanding / collapsing branches
	Using Black Ice BiAutoPrint control for converting HTML or DOC documents to PDF In this article we will describe how you can convert DOC files to PDF programmatically using Black Ice BiAutoPrint control and Black Ice PDF printer driver. As of today Black Ice printer drivers are not supporting conversion into DOC format, but using BiAutoPrint control HTML files can also be converted to PDF.