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http://www.dbi-tech.com/developerbulletins/January2011.html |
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News Bulletin - January 2011 |
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In This
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Special Upgrade Promotion |
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Solutions Schedule for .NET
(4.0) is shipping |
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Tech Tip
- Quick Component UI Styling
with your own custom class |
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Subscription renewal details |
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Relevance from the swirling
information around us |
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Quick
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Special Upgrade Promotion |
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Upgrade
from any component or component
product. Make the transition
from older DBI component
products or from Microsoft
common controls or any component
based product in between and
save 20% on your new DBI product
purchase today! |
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Take Advantage Today
and Save
up to $995 |
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Valid for
all DBI product owners
(v1.0 and later)
and all other third party product owners
too. |
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https://www.dbi-tech.com/NewYearUpgradeSpecialOffer2011.asp |
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This
special offer ends January 31,
2011. |
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Solutions Schedule for .NET v4 -
now
shipping |
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From
production planning to supply
chain optimization to fleet
management -
Solutions Schedule for .NET
has been selected the number one
resource planning and scheduling
component software by
independent consultants to
Fortune 100 commercial software
companies. |
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Select
any one of three formats to meet
your scheduling needs:
Standard Edition,
Corporate Edition and
Enterprise Edition. |
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Tech Tip - Quick Component UI Styling using
a custom Styling Class |
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Once an application style and theme has been
established, imposing those definitions can be accomplished in a
couple of ways. One method, of course, is through the control property
settings for each instance of the control(s). An other, and far more
efficient way is to create your own custom style class for each
control as your application design requires, this will give you an
object oriented appraoch and re-usable methodology. In the following
instance we have chosen dbiSchedule (Solutions Schedule for .NET
v4.0) for our demonstration base.
We establish a custom class,
which contains a reference back to the object/control being styled.
Then we add Public Properties to the class, toprovide
discrete selection over which of the Controls' styling properties
are available for editing. This also allows the use of the
.NET Property Grid control, without having to deal with any
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Public
Class Class1
'Schedule to Style
Private l_mySchedule
As New
Dbi.WinControl.Schedule.dbiSchedule
'Create a new instance of the class, and
set the dbiSchedule to style
Public
Sub New(ByRef
newSchedule As
Dbi.WinControl.Schedule.dbiSchedule)
l_mySchedule = newSchedule
End Sub
'Create Public properties to allow custom
control over which of dbiSchedule's properties are available for
editing in the Property Grid
<Category("Colors")>
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Public
Property BackColor()
As System.Drawing.Color
Get
Return
l_mySchedule.BackColor
End
Get
Set(ByVal
value As System.Drawing.Color)
l_mySchedule.BackColor = value
End
Set
End
Property
<Category("Enumerations")>
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Public
Property TimeBarFillType() As
Dbi.enumFillType
Get
Return
l_mySchedule.TimeBarFillType
End
Get
Set(ByVal
value As Dbi.enumFillType)
l_mySchedule.TimeBarFillType = value
End
Set
End
Property
<Category("Colors")>
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Public
Property RulerBackColor() As
System.Drawing.Color
Get
Return
l_mySchedule.RulerBackColor
End
Get
Set(ByVal
value As System.Drawing.Color)
l_mySchedule.RulerBackColor = value
End
Set
End
Property
End
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Once the styling is complete, you can save
the settings out and ready for use with any/all of your
applications.
A quick and easy way is through XML. You can use the built in
functionality of control's like dbiSchedule to save all the current
property settings to one file and load it in to any applications
with one simple call.
Additionally, you can create your own XML files (following your own
structure) to allow multiple controls to be styled with a single XML
file.
Hope this little tip adds to your tool kit
of efficient development strategies.
As always, take care and have a great day. |
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Subscription Renewal and Updates |
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As we turn the page on another year, we're getting into Subscription Renewal
season. I'd just like to point
out where you can track down
your subscription information in
the DBI Product Manager
application. Each time you launch the a
DBI product manager you will see the "Maintenance Expires" date... |
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And when your subscription expires...
that date value will turn RED... |
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Subscription (maintenance) renewals offer DBI component product owners
the best service possible without having to incur traditional upgrade
fees. Subscription ensures that a product is up to date, all the time,
and is in step with each component/ product update, upgrade, new
components released into the product and those changes made for new
versions of Windows. Subscription also maintains direct
access to DBI's "best in the industry" technical support group.
Make sure to renew your subscription today!
https://www.dbi-tech.com/renewals/default.aspx |
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Relevance from the swirling mass
of information around us... |
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In
recent
media interviews, high tech
pioneers -
Jack Dorsey and
Mark Zuckerberg included -
increasingly refer to the need
for technologies that will
provide contextual relevance
from the "swirling mass of
information" that surrounds us
24 hours a day. Context and
relevance on their own are as
subjective as any one of the
half billion web searches
performed each day. When used
together - contextual relevance
- precision and unbiased
objectivity become an expected
norm. |
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Precision and unbiased
objectivity are becoming
invaluable currencies with the
heightened need for definitive
information. Computers of any
form are really good at
precision and being objective -
the opportunity is combining the
right technologies along with
the abundance of computing
power. A key ingredient is
Extractor. |
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Quick links: |
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Studio Controls for COM
http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_StudioControlsCOM.aspx |
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Studio Controls for .NET
http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_StudioControls.NET.aspx |
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Solutions Schedule for .NET
http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_SolutionsScheduleNET.aspx |
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Solutions Schedule for COM
http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_SolutionsSchedule.aspx
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Staff Scheduler Pro - the Right People in the Right
Place at the Right Time
http://www.Staff-Scheduler.com
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Extractor - Keyword and Keyphrase extraction
( web text mining )
http://www.dbi-tech.com/productPage_Extractor.aspx |
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