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    The original VBForfree.com site down

    Thursday, August 5th, 2010

    As you may or may not have known, the original Visual Basic for FREE (vbforfree.com) website has been down along time now. This site you see now is the backup for vbforfree.com. But a big negative is its missing the latest articles and doesn’t have all of the comments or features that the original site had. It [...]

    Textbox Manipulation in VB and .NET – Using API

    Monday, July 21st, 2008

          This is a basic article on how to do various textbox manipulating that isn't exposed in your normal VB or VB.NET textbox like Page Left or Scroll to the Edge (That I am aware of anyways). Note: These codes are basically taken from a example I made at my vbcodesource.com site for [...]

    How-to Playback Movies/Videos in VB and Visual Basic .NET

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

          As you will see, playback of movies and/or videos of various formats is fairly easy to do. As you may have already guessed this article will be using the Windows MCI Command interface for the playback which is supported on all of the modern Windows OS including Windows XP and Windows Vista. [...]

    Playback Music/Audio Files in VB and VB.NET (#2 – 3rd Party Libraries) – #2 of 3

    Saturday, May 17th, 2008

      Well its been somewhat a long time coming but I finally got the time to add #2 of the ways to play music articles using Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 2005/2008. This post is basically to describe two different librarys. The first is Bass.Dll and the second is FMod.dll. [...]

    How to Playback a Audio Compact Disk (Play/Stop/Pause a CD)

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

      Thankfully playing audio based .cda cds is a easy process and does not require having to rely on 3rd party controls. You can simply use the Microsoft Windows MCI Command Interface to do this. As you may be aware of you can do almost all of your Media based playback needs by using this interface including playing [...]

    Stop your Code from Executing Again(Running Twice) if its Still Running

    Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

      While this tip or trick is very basic and simple, it could end up being very beneficial and useful. Depending on what your code is and what your doing it could be a big negative to have the same code run more than one instance at the same time or in other words running twice or [...]

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