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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Email

 • I need to access my POP3 mailbox from inside my program to list and download messages (1)

Search Engines

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

Document Conversion

 • .html file to .doc and .doc to .pdf converion example code (2)

Graphs & Charting

 • Need to produce a chart with trendlines (1)

Barcode

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

PDF Creation

 • How can I generate a PDF document file from within my program? (1)

PDF Printing

 • Printing PDF documents (3)