Articles by Tim Patrick

At a press conference held in front of a T. J. Maxx store in San Jose, California, Google announced today a new search tool for lost car keys.
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Congressional Democrats mobilized late Friday evening to pass a controversial Health Card Reform package.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced today that Google will begin management of the Internal Revenue Service's tax collection operation starting on January 1.
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The North Pole Board of Directors today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its overnight delivery service, and announced the immediate suspension of division president Santa Claus from his regular gift giving and elf management duties.
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God filed suit in federal court today against several dozen scientist engaged in illegal copying and distribution of previously licensed DNA.
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The House of Representatives today announced passage of an expanded "Cash for Clunkers" program. The revised legislation allocates an additional $2 billion to the program, and allows cash-strapped households to turn in aging family members for rebates of up to $4,000.
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The church has a new prophet, and he lives in Idaho.

An excerpt from Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005 appeared as the "Getting Started" feature in this special edition of the magazine.

Read what I really think of Visual Basic .NET.

This article shows how to use the .NET Stack collection class to manage different states of data in your application. The article includes relevant source code.

This article shows how to overcome two issues with the .NET TabControl control, used to group controls in a Windows Form application. The article includes relevant source code.

This article introduces some advanced features of the .NET PropertyGrid control, with an emphasis on custom drop-down editors. The article includes full source code that implements a location selection tool with a drop-down world map.

This article demonstrates the use of the .NET PrintPreviewControl within your Visual Basic .NET application. It implements a custom print preview form that includes a "table of contents" feature. Full source code is included.

This article describes the use of ADO and ADOX to reverse-engineer a Microsoft Access database, and the analysis of that database to generate an HTML document fully describing the database. Full source code is included.