Visual Basics Programming

Would you like to know how to be able to capture what you're looking at on your computer screen? This article will show you how to take a screen shot of whatever you're viewing and turn it into...

In the current version of Microsoft Visual Studio, it is a manual operation to change the name of a Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ) Application. At first glance, it appears that all you...

Lets say you have several charts copy-pasted from Excel to PowerPoint across several slides. It would be time consuming to change size of each chart one-by-one. Using the macro shown in this...

Writing web content that opens up in Excel can be a fairly simple process involving two key actions. The first action is that the initial content that your ASP outputs must tell the browser that...

Creating web forms dynamically in ASP.NET can be achieved by using VBScript, a language often used in writing ASP pages, to output HTML code that displays a web form. Besides creating the form...

VBScripts are easy mini applications that one can run on their computers to do simple to harder tasks by a click of a button. Ever need to sort a MS Excel file through VBScript? Follow my...

This is a code in VB.NET to create a function to populate a DropDownList in ASP.NET from the SQL Server 2005 Database.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is a development environment for building business applications with diverse needs, including data access. Visual Basic has several functions for querying database...

Have you ever wanted to copy a lot of charts, tables, or cells to powerpoint? Then you know that it can take a lot of time. You have to copy then you have select paste special in powerpoint and...

Microsoft Visual Basic is a programming language used to extend the functionality of Microsoft Word and Excel. Coding Visual Basic projects that perform essential Excel tasks will teach you how to...

In college I had a class called Windows Directory Scripting. It was a blast and it was sad, because the class only met two days a week. But we learned how to make automation scripts, which are...

So you know how to draw a line, highlight a cell manually in Excel, but you have no idea how to do it with a Macro. Well this is the article for you. This article will show you how to record you...

Visual Basic is not widely known as a development platform for games. But, the simplicity of its core language, BASIC, makes it suitable for many types of games, including traditional guessing...

VBScript is an older language used in classic ASP applications. Classic ASP was the predecessor for ASP.NET, so calling the database from the application is very similar to newer programming...

Cant seem to Balance your checkbook, and you have Microsoft Office, then this is for you. A step by step guide to create an excel macro that will keep your checkbook balanced forever.

This will teach you some simple excel basic programming. How to start the visual basic editor. Create a basic macro you can call. Reference cells in the spreadsheet. Add 2 numbers, and write the...

Programmer's will often find themselves loading large sets of data from files, databases, and other sources within their Visual Basic programs. One of the challenges we run into is ensuring the...

Just about every program these days requires network communication in one way or another using the TCP/IP protocol such as DNS, DHCP, IM and other IP related services. Some of the challenges that...

Although Microsoft support provides two functions to read and write schema.ini files, the articles stop short of explaining how to add flexibility in using the functions. Here I will show a few...

Sometimes the data you want to pull into Visual Basic.NET is located somewhere on a web page. Using the process described here you can usually pull this data directly from the web page into VB and...

Creating customized functions is one the most valuable features Microsoft offers for Excel. In this example, I will show you how to create a function to split text into smaller pieces for...

Using Excel VBA to create your own customized message box prompts is easy, fun, and intuitive. You can use a message box to alert users of information they need to enter or to remind them of key...

Have you ever wanted to search your PC for music files, picture files or any other file types and list them in an Excel spreadsheet for reference? With the MadScienceDev ToolPack, you can.

In case you don't know what a batch file is I'll explain it now. They have a .bat extension and execute commands in CMD a windows command shell. If you have linux you want a shell script. I'll...

ASP Classic is the precursor to ASP.NET. It can still be used today to create many versatile web applications. In this article I will show you how to use ASP to create a new folder.

The Windows operating system relies on a constant exchange of messages between what a user does on the computer or about other events that happen without the user's awareness. For example, to read...

Text customization makes a noticeable impact on a website. The font style, size and color all set the tone of a web page, and can make it appear professional or amateur. Headers are the texts that...

It's a common task for websites to deliver reports to the user as downloaded documents. Frequently, users will want Microsoft Word files. Setting up an ASP-based website to deliver Word files is...

If you're used to working on HTML web pages, going to ASP might seem like a big change. You'll be dealing not only with HTML and CSS, but with programming as well. ASP can have all HTML, all...

Have you ever wanted to create your own digital clock, then i am going to show you how to make one. We are going to use Visual Basic 2008. if you need the source code for the digital clock then go...

Visual Basic 6 apps that are print-capable usually rely on the CommonDialog's print dialog. Unfortunately, if the user chooses to print to a printer other than the current system default, the...

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN only read the first X bytes of text when spidering your page. Move the ViewState block to the bottom of your form to improve your chances of having the...

Creating web pages in HTML allows the user to bring life and individuality to their web site, but sometimes you can't accomplish exactly what you want with only HTML. When this happens, a user may...

Some internet updates are easy to perform, like this one. Changing the date or time that's currently programmed into your computer only takes a few moments. I'll show you how.

If you have VBA program created in EXCEL and you want your user to enable the Macros all the time, then here is the simple tip.

Whenever you surf the web your computer creates & keeps temporary files or information on your system. Everything from web sites you've visited to information & passwords you have typed in...

If you are trying to get more out of your MS Access projects, or you are beginning to program in Visual Basic, having an error handler in your Subs and Functions can save your end user a lot of...

This How-to assumes that you have read and understand my original How to article "How to write a function in VB.net". I will use the same code from that project in this one and show how...

If you are new to programming get to know the IF-THEN-ELSE statement. You will use it often.

SQL Server is a great database to use and easy to connect to using VB.net. Here is how you do it.

Macros are bits of code that can run repetitive tasks from within the Excel workbook. Learning to write a Macro for Excel will empower you to take control over the documents and data you work with...

If you are reading data from a database regardless of which programming language that you use, you will invariably run into a database that is designed to allow null values to be saved in table...

Visual Basic is one of the easiest computer languages to learn, but there is still a learning curve that needs to be overcome. Perhaps the most important concept to learn about Visual Basic is...

If you have ever wished you could build your own web browser, it's far easier than you think. Take a look.

The scroll bar can be a convenient device for the computer user. Combining the scroll bar with an array provides a stylish methods for retrieving data. How about using the scroll bar to display...