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| Link | Description |
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| Matrix Operations Library for .NET | Matrix manipulation code for .NET. Operations include Add, Subtract, Determinant, Inverse, Transpose, Multiply, Print, MultiplyVectors,Magnitude of a Vector, scalar multiply, and scalar divide. Thanks to the author Anas S. A. and to Steve Abbott for pointing this out. |
| Matrix Operations Library for VB 4/5/6 | Matrix manipulation code for .NET. Operations include Add, Subtract, Determinant, Inverse, Transpose, Multiply, Print, MultiplyVectors,Magnitude of a Vector, scalar multiply, and scalar divide. Thanks to the author Anas S. A. and to Steve Abbott for pointing this out. |
| PDFCreator | Completely free open source (GNU) PDF creation tool. |
| Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 | PDF generation and editing tools, plus a document signing tool. Free versions display a sponsor page in your web browser each time you run them. $9.95 per product to disable this or $19.95 for all three. |
| MailWasher | Uses a database of viruses and spam to delete unwanted email. The basic vesion is free (optional donation), professional version $29.95. |
| ActiveX skin controls for Visual Basic | A "skin" is a different look and feel you can add to your application. It defines the border style, menu style, colors, etc. If you're not familiar with these, at least take a look at the site to see what they are. |
| WinZip | The extremely popular compression utility. You'll need this to uncompress the example programs found on this site. An absolute must! $29. |
| WinRAR | Another very popular compression utility. Click here for a brief discussion by someone who switched from WinZip to WinRAR. $29. |
| DirectX 9 | DirectX Version 9 is now available from Microsoft. It took me an hour to download the whole 222MB over DSL in the middle of the night on a Sunday. There are a lot of people downloading it right now so you will probably need to try odd hours, too, and it may take a few tries. |
| NIST Internet Time Service | NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Internet Time Service (ITS) lets you synchronize your computer to the atomic clocks scattered around the United States quickly and easily. |
| alfasoft | A Swiss (German language) site with VB source code for several free tools including an HTTP server, CD-ROM setup, RLE compression, etc. |
| Zlib DLL | Zlib is a compression utility written in C. This link provides a DLL that you can use to provide compression in your Visual Basic programs. |
| Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) | Library functions for multimedia, audio codecs, video codecs (e.g. MPEG-4), image processing (JPEG), signal processing, speech compression, computer vision, math support routines, etc. |
| vbSkinner | A skin control that lets you change the appearance of your forms. The professional vesion ($15) lets you allow the user to change the skin at run time. |
| PrintGrid | A tool for printing grid data. It allows you to: print multiple pages, compress output, show or hide grid lines, skip hidden columns, etc. |
| Buckets 2.0 | An object sorting game written by Joel Wallman. |
| Japher | An IT development site that connects developers to projects. Possible full- and part-time jobs and lots of downloads. |
| Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Guide | Microsoft's online guide to upgrading from VB6 to VB.NET. |
| Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Guide | Order Microsoft's VB upgrade guide on CD-ROM. |
| Microsoft's Data Access Controls (MDAC) | Download the latest MDAC here. |
| EZX | This is a free DLL you can use to invoke DirectX easily from Visual Basic. DirectX gives greatly improved graphics performance. |
| Microsoft's Visual Studio Installer | This is Microsoft's latest and greatest installation tool. |
| NCompass ScriptActive Plug-in | This plug-in allows Netscape to display ActiveX controls. |
| A transparent form OCX | ($10 US). |
| Free fonts | |
| Free-B | Freeware for Visual Basic Programmers. |
| Microsoft Agent | Animated genie (see picture), magician, and robot. |
| Free ActiveX controls | |
| shareware.com | Hint: Add "freeware" to your query to find freeware packages. |
| download.com | |
| Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition (CCE) | Download the Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition. Note: Microsoft moves its links fairly often so you may need to go to their main page and search for their stuff. |
| Internet Explorer 4.01 | Free download or order the CD-ROM for a small handling fee. |
| Microsoft script control | Adds scripting capabilities to your applications. |
| Microsoft Speech | Speech recognition. |
