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I don’t remember where I copied this from. Everytime I reinstall Windows 11 I go looking for this to make the context menu “normal” again.
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Originally this application was a console application that I developed to get the music off of my iPod. After my post on transparent forms in VIsual Basic I decided to port it to a Widget format to make it easier to use and demonstrate what goes into creating a transparent Windows Forms application…
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Creating transparent irregular shaped forms in a WinForms applications using Visual Basic is not too difficult. Using a photographic background with a transparent color, a programmer can create some really attractive interfaces.
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…It’s 2018 now and we’ve all been waiting for Interactive Live Tiles. If you ask me, all these feature should have been in the anniversary release. I’m starting to wonder if they’re even going to make it to release at this point. Having the capability to put a miniaturized interface on the Start menu through…
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Just a quick post on using the Microsoft file system watcher component in the .Net framework with Visual Basic. Utilizing the Microsoft file system watcher component in .Net with Visual Basic, you’re able to watch a directory structure for changes to its contents and respond with Visual Basic code. Using the.net file watching component…
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I didn’t know why I would need one either until the need came up (“Oh no, my UI is on a different thread!”). Delegates are described as similar to function pointers in C++ in the Microsoft documentation. When I read that I said to myself “yeah, but Visual Basic doesn’t work like that wonderful and…
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I’ve been getting back into developing with Visual Basic lately. I’ve learned much of what I need to know in the past while in college; or so I thought. Much has changed since those days of Visual Basic 6. Everything is done a bit differently now using dot NET. Before, everything was Component Object Model…
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Setting the preview pane to view a filetype as text is as simple as setting a couple of registry keys.
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If you’re using Backbone to develop the front end in a local application you’ll have to override the Backbone.sync functionality to replace the REST functionality normally used by the library. Using Backbone in a local environment to store data, whether to store data in a file on the hard drive or using a local DB,…
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