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VB.NET Embed Images in MailMessage
In the .NET framework, we can use the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class to create an email message and send it using the SMTPClient class. You can make emails that are plain text or HTML based, and you can also add attachments. However there didn't...
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Thu, Sep 09 2014 9:43 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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Embedded Resource
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Email
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MailMessage
VB.NET Dynamic Grid Drawings
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...
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Fri, Aug 08 2014 6:15 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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VB.NET
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custom drawing
VB.NET - Creating Thumbnail Images from Video Files
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...
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Tue, Mar 03 2014 1:49 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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VB.NET
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video
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VB.NET Metro Samples for Windows 8 Now Available
Microsoft has release VB.NET samples for coding Metro UI apps in Windows 8. Check them out now at these links: Individual Downloads: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=ProgrammingLanguage&f%5B0%5D.Value=VB&f%5B0...
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Thu, Oct 10 2011 3:41 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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VB.NET
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Metro UI
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Windows 8
VB.NET XNA Together at last!
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 .
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Sat, Apr 04 2011 4:47 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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VB.NET
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XNA
VB.NET DateTimePicker blanks out when keying in a value
I ran into an odd "bug" today in some production software. There was a datetimepicker control that had its "format" propery set to Custom, and its CustomFormat property set to MM/yyyy. The purpose of the datetimepicker was to enter...
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Thu, Mar 03 2011 5:30 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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Visual Studio: Avoid Template Overload in VS2010
Visual Studio 2010 gives us a slightly different dialog for creating a new project than we are used to from Visual Studio 2008. It comes as a welcome change because they have added some great features like the ability to search installed templates, as...
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Tue, Jan 01 2010 2:28 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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2010
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VB.NET Include a font as an embedded resource in your application
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...
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Fri, Nov 11 2009 6:05 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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Font
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Embedded Resource
VB.NET How to tell if a user can elevate to admin rights in Vista and Windows 7
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...
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Wed, Jul 07 2009 8:20 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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SSL testing certificate and the .NET Framework
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...
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Mon, Jul 07 2009 8:57 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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Certificates
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Security
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SSL
VB.NET How to make 'Show All Files' the default when creating new VB projects in Visual Studio
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...
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Mon, Feb 02 2009 8:45 AM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
.NET : Install your app and the .NET framework using INNO Setup
Today we are going to look at an alternative to using ClickOnce or Windows Installer MSI to install an application written in .NET. This article is written for installing an application written in Microsoft .NET 2.0 (does not have to be VB specifically...
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Mon, Jun 06 2008 8:53 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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MSDN: Contest for free MSDN Subscription for 1 year.
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...
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Fri, Jun 06 2008 2:53 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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VB.NET : Extended Combobox to better visually handle being disabled
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...
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Mon, May 05 2008 10:51 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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WinForms
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ComboBox
VB.NET : Translucent Controls in Windows Forms (Part Deux)
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...
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Tue, May 05 2008 1:14 PM
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Matthew Kleinwaks
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