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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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    Free eBook, and other Free Resources and Source Codes

    Saturday, August 8th, 2009

       
      Well its been awhile since i've updated the site. I am a Computer Tech so i've been busy building, upgrading, and fixing customers computers along with removing viruses. But anyways, there are somemore "stuff" i've come across that I thought would be worth posting. Some of these resources could be older and may [...]

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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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    Textbox Scroll Cursor to Top or Bottom with VB and VB.NET (Updated Again!)

    Friday, February 15th, 2008

     I originally made this post for VB 5.0 or VB 6.0, but I figured I would go ahead and add the .Net code here as well. The first codes is for VB 6.0 and the code after is for Visual Basic.NET 02/03, 2005, 2008.
        
    'VB 5.0/6.0
        
    In classic VB this will scroll to the bottom [...]

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    Extract/Return the files Path and Filename without the Extension

    Saturday, September 29th, 2007

    Dim filePath As String = "c:\MyDirectory\MYFile.txt"
    Dim extensionPosition As Integer = filePath.LastIndexOf(".")
    Dim filePathNoEx As String = filePath.Substring(0, extensionPosition)
    MsgBox(filePathNoEx) 

     
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    Get/Extract the extension from a filename/path

    Monday, September 24th, 2007

    Here is One way to do it...
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    'This will extract and return the extension of a specified filename/path.
    '
    Dim filePath As String = "c:\MyDirectory\MYFile.txt"
    Dim dotPosition As Integer = filePath.LastIndexOf(".")
    Dim filenameOnly As String = filePAth.Substring(dotPosition + 1)
    MsgBox(filenameOnly)

     
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    Another easier Way from Jim...

    '
    'Thank to Jim for this other method to get the file extension. Just remember that [...]

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