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Uninstall VB6 causes error message: You do not have a license to use this control

I was running out of disk space on one of my machines, so I used my TreeMap program to see where I could delete files to save space. I saw that I still had VB6 on the machine, and I didn’t need it on that machine any more, so I uninstalled it. It's amazing
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Use WPF and inline XAML in your Fox, Excel or VB6 applications

My prior post showed how to create XAML WPF and put it on your Winform App. We can go one step further: add XAML to a UserControl, which could then be made into an ActiveX control, which could be hosted by Fox, VB6, or Excel. Start Visual Studio 2008
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Use LINQ to Foxpro or any SQL data and display it in a WPF form using DataSetExtensions and DataRowExtensions

In the last post Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip , we created a query of your local media and displayed it. Today, we'll make a query to my Foxpro picture database of 28,000 pictures/movies. We'll
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Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip

In my prior post , I showed how to use XAML and XAMLReader to create inline XAML to display the results of a query. Today, let's take it a step further: let's create a query of all the media (pictures, movies, music) in your "My Documents" folder and
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Resize your pictures for your phone or pocket pc

I have many digital pictures, and I'd like to put some of my favorites on my SmartPhone . However the files are much higher resolution than the device's display. This means the files take a lot more memory on the phone, and they take longer to process.

How to generate dynamic images for your web application

Typically, a web site might show some pictures. These could be pictures of items for sale from a catalog, personal photos, etc. Usually, the web author places these pictures as files in a directory on the web server, and just puts links to them in the

The VB version of the Flip Task Bar for Vista Desktop Window Manager

In this post: Create your own Flip Task Bar with live thumbnails using Vista Desktop Window Manager DWM , I showed Fox code on creating your own Flip Task bar Here is the VB.Net version that does the same thing… File->New->Project->Visual Basic->Windows->Windows
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Play movies with an ActiveX control

I’ve been using Canon Powershot cameras for years, and they take movies in AVI format as well as being a good camera. I store my photos and movies in the same folders, and use the same database to store them. To display the movies, I add a Windows Media

Call GDI+ JPG manipulation from Excel, Word, Powerpoint, VB.NET

Here’s a way to manipulate photos from within some Microsoft products. In the prior post , I wrote some code to write and draw directly on a JPG image. It draws text, a timestamp, and an ellipse with a gradient brush onto a JPG and then saves it out to
 
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