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    FREE Application/Program ICONS and/or IMAGES! - Updated _ August 27th!

    Friday, August 27th, 2010

     

        For sure Icons/Images can really make your Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic.NET applications stand out and shine. Unfortunately alot of the Icons you find either cost money and/or will not allow you to use them in a commercial based application. So that is where this little post comes in. Four out of Five of the ICON/Image sources on [...]

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    Check if the Operating System is 32 Bit or 64 Bit

    Friday, May 28th, 2010

     

     
      I've seen many questions posted about how to check if the operating system the user is running is 64 Bit supported or just 32-Bit capable. 32 Bit is also referred to as x86 and 64-Bit is referred to as x64.
      I've seen various options people have come up with like checking WOW64 emulation , ect... [...]

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    Updated: USB using Visual Basic.NET and VB 6.0

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010

    Update: I changed the title and some other things because they might have mislead thinking that this article gives you the in's and out of USB programming.
    The purpose of this post is simply to let you know of some codes/librairies available to help with usb programming like detecting when a usb device has been added/removed, [...]

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    Small Basic - Beginner Programming Language

    Sunday, February 1st, 2009

      Microsoft appears to be supporting a somewhat newer programming language called SmallBasic. As the name implies it is not a full-featured language like VB.NET or C++/C#. In fact, it appears to only support 15 or so Keywords. But it does get access to version 3.5 of the Dot .NET Framework from what I have gathered. And [...]

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    Textbox Manipulation in VB and .NET - Using API

    Monday, July 21st, 2008

      This is a basic article on how to do various textbox manipulating that isn't exposed in your normal VB or VB.NET textbox like Page Left or Scroll to the Edge (That I am aware of anyways).
    Note: These codes are basically taken from a example I made at my vbcodesource.com site for VB.NET that shows [...]

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    How-to Playback Movies/Videos in VB and Visual Basic .NET

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

      As you will see, playback of movies and/or videos of various formats is fairly easy to do. As you may have already guessed this article will be using the Windows MCI Command interface for the playback which is supported on all of the modern Windows OS including Windows XP and Windows Vista. Specifically the [...]

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