RapidKey: autotext and macros for Windows

RapidKey: autotext and macros for Windows

RapidKey is a simple application conveniently puts frequently used text fragments closer at hand. Now you can use your macros and autotext in all applications and improve your Windows system functionality.

RapidKey's system-tray icon allows you to store frequently used text, create macros, and provide quick access to your favorite folders and desktop shortcuts. Create and store text snippets and easily access them using a hot-key combination, or record keyboard and mouse movements to easily create time-saving macros. You also can use the Fast Macro feature, which allows you to quickly record and play a temporary macro using hot keys.

Placing your mouse over RapidKey's icon displays the amount of free memory and total memory available on your hard drive. With its multiple time-saving features, RapidKey can benefit any user who frequently works with the same text or performs the same repetitive actions.


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Pay per download: a new method in software campaign

Pay per download: a new method in software campaign

This is a new fresh info especially for software Authors, AdLandmark offers SoftPPD (Software Pay Per Download) as a new method to promote and distribute your software fast, cheap and easy.

If you want your software can appear for free on many well known download sites and software related vertical marketing sites then try to use the service from this site. You just need to open an account, create your campaign, and you only pay a fee when a customer in your selected countries downloads your software completely.

Features:
  • Users can download your software directly
  • You only need to pay for the first unique & completed download
  • Only customers from selected countries can download your software
  • Control your budget and software campaigns in real time
  • Long term 60-day conversion tracking

  • Thorough and immediate report capability

Advantages:
Traditional Pay Per Click (PPC) ads are to send the user to your website, but most of them leave without downloading your software, and you pay merely a visitors fee. AdLandmark SoftPPD service allows the user to download the free trial version of your software directly, using the shareware Try-Before-You-Buy advantage.

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Free Powerful Download Manager

Free Powerful Download Manager

If you want faster downloads with no risk of incomplete downloads, can pause, resume, schedule and accelerate downloads from websites, then this tool is for you, NetPumper is an advanced download manager that will help you get the most out of your internet connection, easy to use and has built in support for Anti-leech.com

With NetPumper you can download an unlimited amount of files at the same time, schedule when to download them and have full control over the bandwidth usage.

Key features:
  • Accelerate your downloads
  • Automatically resume download if connection breaks
  • Download scheduler
  • Concurrent downloads of several files
  • Bandwidth controller
  • Pause/resume downloads
  • Compatible with Internet explorer, Firefox and Opera
  • Fully Anti-Leech.com compatible

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Tracker id: NP_0233(needed for Anti-Leech integration)



CopyProjectLite, the simple way to copy

CopyProjectLite, the simple way to copy

CopyProjectLite 1.0 is a small VB utility but very useful, it helps you to copy Your VB Project to a new location, it's very very simple job right? but did you ever found how hard even just to copy a current VB project to to another directory, computer, or floppy or zip disk? I did and I had trouble to run the program because I lost some required files that came from another folder directory.

For that case, CopyProjectLite do the great job, now you can easily copy your VB project to a new location with no worry. All project files and related documents are copied to the new directory.

You can use this free VB tools to create new projects based on old projects, back up your projects, get only the files actually used in your project and test your code on a different computer.


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Accessing MYSQL database using ADO.NET

Accessing MYSQL database using ADO.NET

This article will show you how to access MySQL server database using ODBC data provider. There are two ways to access MySQL Server database using ODBC data providers.
First, using ODBC data source name and second by passing connection string direct in the OdbcConnection object.

Using MySQL Database
Working with different data sources is only a matter of changing the connection string. You can access a MySQL database either using a DSN or using the direct database name in the connection string. You can use a database name directly as shown in the following code:

Dim connectionString as string = "Driver={MySQL};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=NorthwindMySQL;"

Or you can use an ODBC DSN, as you can see from the following code that I’ve used TestDSN DSN to connect to the data source:

Dim conn As New OdbcConnection("DSN=TestDSN")

To test this code, create a Windows application and add a DataGrid control to the form and write code listed in Listing below (on the form load).
As you can see in Listing this code is similar to the code you saw earlier. It creates a connection, a data adapter, fills the dataset from the data adapter, and sets the dataset’s DefaultViewManager as the DataGrid control’s DataSource property.

'Listing: Accessing a MySQL database
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)
Dim connectionString As String = "Driver={MySQL};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=NorthwindMySQL;"'
Dim conn As New OdbcConnection(connectionString)
conn.Open()
Dim da As New OdbcDataAdapter("SELECT CustomerID, ContactName, ContactTitle FROM Customers", conn)
Dim ds As New DataSet("Cust")
da.Fill(ds, "Customers")
dataGrid1.DataSource = ds.DefaultViewManager
conn.Close()
End Sub 'Form1_Load


Note:
For sample database you can convert Nortwind Access database to MYSQL database, and make sure you replace your database name, table, user ID and password.(Phillip N)
Free Setup Maker By Its Best

Free Setup Maker By Its Best

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    Inno Setup Extensions is currently based on Inno Setup 2.0.6 and adds 'advanced Pascal scripting' to Inno Setup. The advanced Pascal scripting feature adds lots of new possibilities to customize your Setup at run-time.
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    If you're looking for FREE customizable installation/uninstallation program, then this is for you. It can copy files, register DLL's/OCX's, create/set/delete registry entires both on installation and uninstallation. Create any number of links to any number of locations, etc. Plus upgrade/patch support and much more!
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    Install Wizard Creator is an en extremely easy to use 3-Step program that creates professional looking Install programs. Just follow the Creator's simple instructions and it will produce a quality 4-Page Installer. This program is specifically designed for those who find the other Setup or Install Makers too complex.
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    In Java you can generate executable jar-files but most Windows users are only familiar with exe files. Moreover it is not possible to assign icons to a Java Archive. This program solves these problems by generating an exe, with an arbitrary icon, that starts the jar when it is launched.
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    RedShift enables you to create a very simple, smart looking software installer in seconds, Its builds a single, self contained executable file which you can then distribute. RedShift displays a realtime preview of your installer while you are working - saving you time since you don't need to keep rebuilding just to see if everything looks fine.

    • Name your installer & choose a splash image
    • Type or paste in your software license text
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    • Enter shortcuts to your exe and help files
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Must have: Resource Hacker, the resource editor

Must have: Resource Hacker, the resource editor

If you want to add or modify shortcuts and menus in your programs or favorite apps to make them more consistent or easier to use, there is a free tool to do it easily.

Resource HackerTM is a handy utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

Key Features:

Viewing Resources:
  • Images: Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG
  • Audio: WAV and MIDI
  • Decompiled script: Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo.
  • WYSIWYG: Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application.
Saving Resources:
  • Resources can be saved as:
  • Image files (*.ico, *.bmp etc)
  • Script files (*.rc)
  • Binary resource files (*.res) or
  • Untyped binary files (*.bin)
Modifying Resources:
  • Resources can be modified by replacing the resource with:
  • A resource located in another file (*.ico, *.bmp, *.res etc)
  • Internal resource script compiler (for menus, dialogs etc).
  • Dialog controls can also be visually moved and/or resized by clicking and dragging the respective dialog controls prior to recompiling with the internal compiler.
Adding Resources:
  • Resources can be added to an application by copying them from external resource files (*.res).
Deleting Resources:
  • Most compilers add resources into applications which are never used by the application.
  • Removing unused resources can reduce an application's size.

This Resource HackerTM software is released as freeware by Angus Johnson, © Copyright 1999-2004.

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