The Windows "Turn off" buttons are three or more steps away from the desktop work area, depending on your personal settings. This can be not only inconvenient, but downright bothersome at times. These programs can power down the computer, in just one or two steps.
Learn to determine whether or not a disk is plugged in. Also, learn how to make the disk Autorun, similar to CD drives, and, how to run a normal VB 6 program from this disk, without needing to install it on the client machine.
Discover the main differences between accessing the Registry with VB 6 and with VB.NET.
Learn about a simple utility to launch files/folders by pressing a combination of keys, irrespective of which application is active.
Write a VB .NET application that constantly monitors a folder and raises events when there is any activity in that folder.
File type associations can be used in Windows to automatically start up a particular program every time someone double-clicks a file with a particular extension. This article shows how to do exactly that, using Visual Basic and the WIN32 API.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
A quick look at the best methods for passing data from page to page in a .NET web application.
Learn how to create a Gaussian Blur effect on images using your VB.NET program.
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.
