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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.
	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.
	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.
	Using Barcode Xpress with VB.net and C#.Net to extract barcode values from image files This sample illustrates how Barcode XPress provides a simple and accurate solution that enables you to write apps that can extract barcode values from scanned documents.
	List email messages waiting on POP server using IPWorks! ASP.NET Edition by /n Software Using the POP Component in IPWorks! .NET Edition to access and list the contents of a POP3 mailbox. The sample runs from an ASP.Net based web page which requests the authentication information with a web form and displays the list of messages.