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VB 6 Helper Newsletter
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Rod Stephens
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Jan 13, 2009 08:48 PST
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Someone posted a review of my new database book, "Beginning Database
Design Solutions."
You can read it at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470385499/vbhelper.
(Still no reviews at Amazon.co.uk.)
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This week's newsletter has an interesting .NET program for storing
passwords. It's fairly simple but probably adequate, although I make no
warrantees!
It contains a lot of details so you'll have to read the code to see
edxactly how it works.
If you find any flaws, please let me know. Normally I don't worry too
much if a silly example contains a bug that prevents it from handling
odd special cases, but I'd rather not leave bugs in a program like this
one that protects passwords.
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Thanks for subscribing!
Rod
RodSte-@vb-helper.com
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*** Now Available ***
Beginning Database Design Solutions
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470385499/vbhelper/
Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470182628/vbhelper/
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VB6 Contents:
1. New HowTo: Use a program to merge PDF files in Visual Basic 6
Both Contents:
2. Updated Links
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1. New HowTo: Use a program to merge PDF files in Visual Basic 6
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_pdf_merger.html
http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/howto_pdf_merger.zip
This is a PDF file merging application written by Patrice Goyer (thanks
Patrice). Here's his description:
PdfMerger is a fully fledged application that will concatenate simple
PDF documents
(typically most of PDF files generated with the open source software
"PDF Creator").
Essential features:
- in dialog mode : concatenation of 2 PDF files
- menu enabling to concatenate all PDF files in a directory, with
sorting options
- Drag and Drop supported
- "send to" supported (provided a shortcut to Pdfmerger is manually
added in the user's "SendTo" directory)
- a directory can be "sent to" PdfMerger for concatenating all the
PDF files in that directory
- possibility to change the TEMP directory
- automatic localization of the PDF reader on the computer (if any)
- suppression of the PDF identifier (this feature can easily be
disabled)
- PDF date forced to a fixed value (this feature can easily be
disabled)
- operates only on the physical structure of the document (physical
pages)
- encryption is NOT supported
- ...
Although PdfMerger is written in VB6 (with most comments in French),
some programming tricks (including some from your books or
Web site) may still be valuable to some VB programmers.
You may distribute Pdfmerger on the "VB Helper" portal, <B>with no
warranty</B>.
Thanks again, Patrice!
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2. Updated Links
http://www.vb-helper.com/links.html
ExcelHints.com
http://excelhints.com
A medium/smallish Excel tip site with some descriptions of some of the
more complicated Excel features and worksheet functions.
New Links
http://www.vb-helper.com/links.html
TutorHunt.com
http://www.tutorhunt.com
A free site that connects tutors with students on a fairly wide range of
topics and various levels (grade school through degree and adult). Seems
to be in the U.K. only.
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