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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.
	How To Use GRID to Enhance Your GIS Development with Map Suite This solution shows how to use GRID, a really neat way of taking point data readings and interpolating them to produce an attractive visual representation of that data on a map. Utilizes the Map Suite Desktop .NET mapping control.
	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.
	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.
	Creating an organizational chart using AddFlow for .NET The following code shows how to create an organization chart programmatically using the AddFlow for .NET API.
	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 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.