Visual Studio 2005 Express – 6 – RAD – IronSpeed

This video tutorial will demonstrate how to use Rapid Application Development (RAD) software. We will be using the free version of IronSpeed Designer to automatically generate the visual basic application from a database. photo credit: Howard Kang The first thing we will do is go over the prerequisite software. If you do not already have it, you need: 1) Internet Information Services (IIS) or ASP.NET Development Server- IIS is a personal web server... [Read More...]

Visual Studio 2005 Express – Part 5 – Speech Recognition

This video tutorial shows how to add speech recognition to a simple dictation application. You can cut-n-paste the source code by clicking here: Source Code for Speech Recognition Note: Actually, the above link for source code is now outdated. You can find several examples of source code for using speech recognition at: Programming Speech in WPF – Speech Recognition; Sample Source Code for Speech Developers; and Fun with Speech Recognition... [Read More...]

Visual Studio Express 2005 Video Tutorial – Part 4 – Adding Text-To-Speech (TTS)

In this tutorial, we learn how to add speech to a visual basic application. You can download the VB source code for this project by clicking on this link: Text-To-Speech Once you have downloaded the source code, you need to open Visual Basic Express 2005 and clicking on File/Open Project. Then, navigate to where you downloaded the source and click on the file that has the .sln (solution) extension. Three steps are important in using speech in a... [Read More...]

Visual Studio Express 2005 Video Tutorial – Part 3 – What is Visual Studio

This video tutorial provides a high-level overview of what Visual Studio is. It describes the major components and the various editions. You can learn more about this topic by clicking here: What is Visual Studio? There is a summary of over 700 video tutorials on programming at this post.  Read More →