…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 an expando button can go far in my opinion. Advertisements Continue reading …This is Next Gen Windows 10 in 2016
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 is pretty simple on the surface. Microsoft provides enough example code in their documentation to give any new user a great head start. Basically, to use the file system watcher component you have to first set permissions to full trust, create a new file system … Continue reading FileSystemWatcher Class in VB.NET
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 painfully frustrating language that AT&T invented so long ago”. So Microsoft still has to learn that Chinese is painful if you’re not from China. I’m discovering in the new VB, it does kinda work like that – a little. In my case I had a … Continue reading Synchronous Delegate in VB.NET
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 … Continue reading Getting System Information With WMI and VB.NET
Setting the preview pane to view a filetype as text is as simple as setting a couple of registry keys. Continue reading Preview File Types as Text in Preview Pane in Windows Explorer on Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista
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, is a bit different from its normal usage. The REST functionality has to be replaced with a file write or some other data storage code. The code below works for me: Continue reading Overriding Backbone.sync for local use
This is an application that allows you to pick and choose which of the many context menu add-ons you would like enabled in your browser. Internet Explorer does not support nested context menus so this I wrote this application to make it easy to enable and disable different menu items you may want to use (instead of separate scripts). The context menu items are broke up into 8 groups: Share-it, Analyze-it, Analyze-it-Scritch, Analyze-it-Viewdns, Plurk-it, Google-it, Look-it-up, and IE-Utility. The IE-Utility menu items are usually located in the Tools menu in the menubar on top which isn’t shown by default (just … Continue reading Internet Explorer 11 Context Menu Chooser Application Version 3
This is a high contrast theme that I can actually endure using late at night without getting frustrated. This theme works great on Windows 10 and Windows 8. I even did a version for Windows 7 to make all of my systems match. Hope you get some use out of them. The download links and screenshots are below. Sore eyes caused me to create this theme. I actually didn’t want to create a theme at all at first. All I really wanted to do at first was to change the background color of Windows Explorer by changing values in the … Continue reading MilSpecGreen Windows Theme
Just a couple of Windows tweaks scripted into nice small nullsoft installers for convenience. This way if you want to remove them at any time in the future you just uninstall them as you would any other program, Although they were scripted on and for Windows 10, they should also work for all older versions of Windows as well. Admin Command Prompt Here Menu Item The Admin Command Prompt Here menu item will appear when you right click on, or inside of, any folder in Windows Explorer. It provide you with an elevated command prompt when you click on it. … Continue reading Windows Admin Command Prompt Here and Desktop Shutdown Menu Items
With this new version the Analyze-it context menus were updated to the most recent version. Analyze-it contained so many menu items that I had to add a counter to the interface to indicate when there are more than the twenty menu item visible limit. The menu counter is only active for page context (basic context menu the page provides – nothing selected in other words) menu items. I suppose when there are more than twenty selected text context menus I’ll have to add another one; this is good for now. The counter only indicates when you are over the visible … Continue reading Internet Explorer Context Menu Chooser Application Version 2
