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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.
	Telerik RadUpload for ASP.NET AJAX You can achieve your goal by using RadUpload for ASP.NET AJAX. For details on the matter please take a look at these online examples. http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/prometheus/Upload/Examples/CustomProgress/DefaultCS.aspx http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/prometheus/Upload/Examples/ProgressTemplate/DefaultCS.aspx
	RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX - configurable WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML Editor for Content Management System The "Apply Class" dropdown of RadEditor displays all classes defined in the page. Using the Add() method of the CssClasses collection resets the "Apply Class" dropdown, so the CssClasses you add will not be appended to the default set, but will rather create a new CssClasses set.
	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.
	How to extract barcodes from images in VB.NET and C# using VintaSoftBarcode.NET Library. This example demonstrates how to read barcodes from images in your VB.NET, C# or ASP.NET application.
	Print PDF unattended Hi, we offer a .NET component (32-bit and 64-bit support) that allows you to print PDF documents to any printer. Customers that already use our component for this purpose include Xerox, PitneyBowes and Microsoft. You will be using the standard .NET PrintDocument class so you will be able to customize anything including creating 2-up, stamp notices, etc. In the PrintPage handler you will simply be telling the PDF document to print to the System.Drawing.Graphics object that wraps the printer.
	TreeView Populate On Demand Using populate on demand feature to dynamically load large TreeView.
	An expandable org. chart using NetDiagram and Ajax for ASP.NET These requirements are very close to what is demonstrated in the OrgBrowser sample project coming with NetDiagram. Its key features are outlined below.
	How to print PDF documents with PDF Reader SDK With Black Ice PDF Reader SDK it is easy to automate the printing of PDF documents programatically. Supports the following languages: C++ (BiPDFReader.dll); VB, Delphi, C#, J#, VB.NET (BiPDFReader.ocx)
	Printing .html to doc/rtf Our Amyuni Document Converter Suite product is a virtual printer driver that will converter output sent to it from a printing application into PDF, XPS, RTF, HTML, XLS, TIFF, JPEG/BMP formats. The developer has full control over the printing process and printer configuration.