Using the OpenFileDialog box wasn’t as intuitive as I initially expected, I was thinking I could just drag it out onto my form as a button and place it right where I wanted to. But when I clicked on it from toolbox it just went into the bottom frame of my application, but not on my form like I was hoping for. Below I is an example of a dynamically (aka created at run) created OpenFileDialog. Because it’s dynamically created when don’t have to drag it out to form, it’s created by the code, not from the GUI. Continue reading How To Use the OpenFileDialog Box in VB.NET
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The progress bar is one of those universal objects that everyone recognizes, it’s useful when doing a large or long task. For example, if your updating/deleting/copying a bunch of files you can update the progress bar as you modify each file. Continue reading How to Use the Progress Bar in VB.NET and C# I’ve often found it necessary to center a form on my screen using the pure code, but it’s not as easy as Me.center in Visual Basic or this.center() in C# so I wrote some code to work around that. Using the code below you can center you application on your monitor in just 3 lines of code using either VB.NET or C#. Continue reading How to Center A Form in VB.NET and C# In this example, I’ll show you how to cut, copy, paste and clear text in the clipboard. Cutting and copying text is really straight forward, pasting text requires just a little bit of checking. For example, we want to check to see what the clipboard contains before we try and do something like pasting an image into a text box. Continue reading How to Cut/Copy/Paste into the Clipboard using VB.NET I was playing around with COM objects in Windows and discovered that I could access the SAPI.SpVoice interface and make Microsoft Windows talk to me. Well needless to say I had to rush and develop and application to do just that. I uploaded a simple applicaton which will just say whatever you type in as an argument. For example SpeakToMeConsole.exe Hello World will make your computer speak the words “Hello World.” The part that really amazes me is that the guts of this program is only 2 lines long, and it can even that can reduced down to 1 line if we create an anonymous instance of SAPI.SpVoice object. Continue reading Make Your Computer Talk with VB.NET Application (and Source Code) Hilarious tech support cheat sheet… Continue reading Humor: Tech Support Cheat Sheat This is extremely easy using VB.NET or C# (pronounced C sharp) and the built in windows EXE file shutdown.exe. To shutdown, restart, or log off your computer is as simple as entering 1 line into your program, it just so happens that the 1 line is identical whether you’re using VB.NET or C#. Continue reading How to Shutdown, Restart, Log off your computer with VB.NET or C# Creating different types of messages boxes in Visual Basic is a simple one line statement. I’m going to run through how to create several different types of message boxes in this tutorial, including OK Only, OK/Cancel, Abort/Retry/Ignore, and a Critical message box. Continue reading How to Create Message Box Pop Ups in VB.NET Merging files together, or to a seperate file, is a snap with PowerShell using the Get-Content cmdlet. If you’ve never used the Add-Content cmdlet, I would suggest first reading my other article Append Text to a File Using Add-Content. The first thing we need to do is identify our two files, in my case I’ll be using file1.log and file2.log. In the first example, I append all the text of file2.log into the end of file1.log. In the second example, I’ll create a completely new file and dump the contents of both the files into the newly created file. In the last example, I’ll add the current date to the filename of a completly new log file. Continue reading Combine or Join Two Text Files Using PowerShell There’s been several times where I had an Apache server running locally on my computer as a development (or dev) server. Now if this is on my home network, or if your system administrator won’t give you your own custom host name then you have to go the DIY (do it yourself) route. But, often times, I have to hard code host names, or I need several different websites hosted on my personal machine. Well that’s where the hosts file comes into play. Continue reading Add or Map a Custom Hostnames to IP Address without a DNS Server |
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