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Someone had posted a question about creating 1500 picturebox controls on a form for the purpose of some sort of game. Creating 1500 controls on a single form is always a recipe for disaster. I wrote them up an example on how you can do this by dynamically...

I have a custom built PC using a gigabyte system board, and I recently upgraded my SSD from an Intel SATA2, to an OCZ Vertex3 SATA3. Since the upgrade everything is fine except my Windows login seemed to take forever. The machine would boot quickly, but...

Microsoft has announced that XNA support is finally going to be available for VB developers! XNA is a game framework that allows you to target XBOX, Windows Phone, Zune, and the PC. More info from Microsoft here .

Tonight when I was trying to copy some movie files to my Windows Home Server (V1), I was getting horribly slow speeds and any file over a few gigs in size would eventually time out (if I let it hang that long doing nothing). Normally my speeds are very...

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...

I was faced with an odd problem today. I needed to test an update for an application that is already in production. Normally this would be pretty simple to do in a staging environment of some sort, but that is what made this task different. There was...

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...