visual basic

Creating a Media Playlist using Widows Media Player in VB.NET

Submitted by donbermoy on
This tutorial will teach you on how to create a music playlist using windows media player in vb.net. So now I will be going to teach you how to do this. 1. Let's start with creating a Windows Form Application for this tutorial by following the following steps in Microsoft Visual Studio: Go to File, click New Project, and choose Windows Application. 2. Right click the ToolBox, and click the Choose Items. output 3.

How to Create a Ceaser Cipher Text Encrypter in Visual Basic

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple Ceaser Cipher text encrypter using Visual Basic. Notes: In this tutorial I only did three letters as an example, you will want to do the same technique for every letter of the alphabet to avoid messages getting muddled. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First you want to create a form with; textbox1 - Message to encrypt textbox2 - Message to decrypt Button1 - Encrypt Button2 - Decrypt Step 2: We will be using one function to deal with all the encrypting and decrypting s

How to Create a Colour Chooser/Grabber in Visual Basic

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a colour chooser in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form. Mine has three textboxes (r,g,b) to show to red, green and blue colours of the current colour and a Panel to contain the colour image. Step 2: Now we want to begin the timer on form load so it is instant.

How to Create a Any Page Web Scraper in Visual Basic

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to make a visual basic program which will scrape between two given points from a given page and create a list of output. Pre-Creation: My form will have: Textbox1 Extract From Textbox2 Extract To Textbox3 Page to extract from Button1 Begin extraction Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want some imports and a function.

Change ProgressBar Color in VB.NET

Submitted by donbermoy on
Usually, the color of the progressbar is green. Now, we will create a program that changes the progressbar color in vb.net. Now, let's start this tutorial! 1. Let's start with creating a Windows Form Application for this tutorial by following the following steps in Microsoft Visual Studio: Go to File, click New Project, and choose Windows Application. 2. Next, add three ProgressBar named ProgressBar1, ProgressBar2, and ProgressBar3.

[BBC iPlayer] File Version Checker in Visual Basic #1 Design, Imports and GetSource Function

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create an update checker tool. Note; this is not a software/application self updating feature, this is to check whether there are new versions of another program/video/audio file ready to view. Purpose: I am going to be making this program for BBC iPlayer so I can check if there are new episodes of certain TV Shows I watch.

Creating an File Update Checker Tool #2 Versions

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create an update checker tool. Note; this is not a software/application self updating feature, this is to check whether there are new versions of another program/video/audio file ready to view. Purpose: I am going to be making this program for BBC iPlayer so I can check if there are new episodes of certain TV Shows I watch.

Skype Profile Image Downloader in Visual Basic

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: In this tutorial we are going to be making a simple program in Visual Basic to download someones Skype profile picture. How It Works: We are going to use the Skype API to act as a link to get the profile picture, from that we can use a simple download function within Visual Basic .NET to download the returned image through the link. Design: This program will take two components; Button, named 'skypeButton', text set as 'Download Profile Image' Textbox, named 'skypeText', where the user will enter the skype profile username.

Email Validation Tool in Visual Basic

Submitted by GeePee on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to make an email addres validator tool in Visual Basic. Design: This tool will contain; a textbox, named defaultly textbox1, this is where the string to be validated will be enetered. a button, named defaulty button1, this is how the validation process will begin. Imports: To validate the string as an email, we are going to be using RegEx which requires it's own import from...