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So Microsoft sent me a little envelope the other day, and inside were 3 cards, each for a 1 year MSDN Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite Premium Subscription. Wow that is a mouthful huh? So I already have this same subscription, and these cards...

If you do any WinForms programming then chances are you have used comboboxes, and perhaps at one point or another, you disabled one of those comboboxes because you did not want the user to be able to make a selection. This works fine, however I actually...

Windows Forms controls in .NET do a lot more for us than they did in previous versions of VB. One of the best things about getting all the OO features .NET brought us, is the ability to extend controls through inheritance or some other means. Some controls...

Generally finding out if a user has the permissions to do something involves trying to do that thing, and handling the access denied (error 5) exception that results. What if you wanted to know if a user is an admin though prior to doing some admin task...

So yesterday I talked about making a translucent button in WinForms using VB.NET. If you have not read that yet, then you should probably do so before digging into part 2, where we expand part 1 to cover more controls. Today lets look at making a translucent...

This article focuses on Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 9, but it can be applied to other versions, I just have not tested these other versions with the steps outlined below. Feedback is welcome. Show All Files is a useful little button in the Visual...

There can be any number of reasons why one might want to take a video file and create thumbnail images from the video. I had a need to do this, and after developing a solution, I thought I would share it here for others looking to do the same. When I...

Today I am going to show you how you can take a font file, and include it in your VB.NET WinForms application. This means you can load the font at runtime, and use it on your controls without requiring the user to have the font installed on their system...