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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... [...]

    Popularity: 18% [?]

    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 [...]

    Popularity: 100% [?]

    How to easily Shutdown, Restart, and Log Off the Computer without APIs (Update: Added VB 6.0 codes)

    Monday, August 20th, 2007

      IF you do not like using Microsofts API calls, but you still want to Shutdown, Restart, and/or Log Off a computer you can use some simple shell based code. This is a alternative method that does require the Windows Shutdown service to be active on the target computer to work. IT usually is running by default [...]

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    How to make a single instance application in Visual Basic 2005/2008

    Sunday, June 24th, 2007

      Microsoft actually added a application Pre-Instance feature in version 2005 of VB and is also available in VB.NET 2008. You can access it by going to the Project menu, Properties, the Application Tab and under the: Windows Application Framework Properties groupbox - you will see a checkbox named: Make Single Instance Application. Obviously you simply check [...]

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    Check if a String contains a specified String

    Monday, June 18th, 2007

    'Check if a String contains a specified string.
    Dim str As String = "This string has some text"
    If str.Contains("string") Then
    MessageBox.Show("Yeps, that string is in here!")
    Else
    MessageBox.Show("No, the string is not in here!")
    End If
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    Popularity: 36% [?]

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