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    Major Site Downtime

    Sunday, August 8th, 2010

     

     
    As you may or may not have known, this Visual Basic for FREE (vbforfree.com) website was down almost a week. My web host apparantly were moving to new servers and it did not go well. The host btw is Netfirms. Many of their customers were affected. Unfortunately the way they dealt with these problems I recommend you do [...]

    Popularity: 5% [?]

    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% [?]

    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, [...]

    Popularity: 30% [?]

    “How Do I” Videos for Visual Studio 2010 and Release Candidate Available

    Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

    As expected Microsoft is already starting to release some new videos related to VB 2010 and will continue to add new video's/codes to highlight new features in the new IDE/Framework. Also, Release Candidate1 of Visual Studio 2010 has been released. Check out this link if you want to check out RC1.
    Below are some highlights from the Microsoft [...]

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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 [...]

    Popularity: 66% [?]

    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% [?]

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