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Problem description> You have a Listbox where you have a lot of items which are quite large and won't fit inside the width of your listbox. You don't want to enable Horizontal Scroll bar, since you have don't want your users to keep scrolling left
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You know that by default you don't have too many options to change the Border Color/Style of a normal PictureBox control. I wanted to customize this control a little bit, so that you can at least change the border color and style when you click on any
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My problem was not really big, but it was a problem which really irritated me a lot!! We store data based on the user's alias in a folder called D:\SomeFolder on remote machine. In due course of time though, the hard disk starts giving No Disk Space problems,
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I blogged about how to find Operating System Information from your VB.NET 2005 application last year in March. I found that Nilesh has posted a very nice reply to that post to ensure that the output of that program is even better. Initially, if you used
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I was working on a project where I had the following requirement, and for a moment I thought, "Man, that's like a 5 min task for me!!". And it should have been!!!! Unfortunately though, I couldn't find the right document at the right time and it took
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I was planning to write an application today which simply opens an Excel file and read the Cell values into an array so that I could manipulate it accordingly. Since I don't have VS.NET installed on my home PC, I decided to do it with VB6 :o) Here is
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In this pick, I wanted to show you how to execute commands on the command prompt and get its output in a regular Windows Application . The command in the following code will be entered via a VB.NET Windows application and we will get the output in a Textbox
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We have an XML file that needs to be loaded in the TreeView control. This entry shows How do we do it in VB.NET 2005. Let's create a VB.NET Project. Drag and drop a TreeViewControl and name it tvwMetabase . Also drag a Button control and name it btnLoad
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In VS 2005, it has become really easy to find the Operating System's information using some of the classes. Let's take a look at how do we do it in VB 2005... Sub DisplayOperatingSystemInformation() Dim osInfo As OperatingSystem osInfo = Environment.OSVersion
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Well, to begin with... let me tell you my problem which led me to create this very simple application. Actually, I have quite a lot of songs on my Hard Drives (who doesn't ;o) ???) and used to create organized playlists for all those songs littered across
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