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Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:55 PM

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.
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 9 Comments
Monday, October 08, 2007 12:13 PM

Generate and run PowerShell scripts dynamically

In my prior post Use new XML Features of VB to generate dynamic scripts and text files , we generated a simple batch file. It’s difficult to modify the registry or manipulate a COM object PowerShell scripts allow you to manipulate files, registry and
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:24 AM

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
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:30 PM

Use a different kind of grid in your applications

My prior post ( Create a .Net UserControl that calls a web service that acts as an ActiveX control to use in Excel, VB6, Foxpro ) shows how to create a .Net control that you can use in VFP or VB6 that takes advantage of the .Net framework. Here’s an example
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 3 Comments
Friday, July 14, 2006 9:47 AM

Create a .Net UserControl that calls a web service that acts as an ActiveX control to use in Excel, VB6, Foxpro

Here’s how you can use Visual Studio to create a .Net User Control that will act as an ActiveX control that can be used in Excel (or other Office application), VB6 or Foxpro. This will bring the power of the entire.Net Framework to your program. This
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 22 Comments
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:11 AM

A Visual Basic COM object is simple to create, call and debug from Excel

At the SouthWest Fox conference in Phoenix I asked “How many people have Visual Studio?” Almost everybody raised their hand. Then I asked “How many people have used it?” Very few hands were raised. Here’s a simple way to create some VB.Net code and call
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 8 Comments
Monday, July 25, 2005 3:48 PM

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
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:02 PM

Write your own Task Manager

Often an error message occurs: “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.” Typically it occurs when you try to copy or rebuild the file. How do you determine which process is using it? One way to release the file
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 15 Comments
 
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