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How to create XP-Style Balloon Tooltip in VB.net (Updated)
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Using api you can create ballon style tooltip. You can also set various parameters for tooltip i.e. Delay, Visible Time, Style, Title, Description , Font, TextColor, BackColor etc...
Note: If tooltip is OnDemand ToolTip then VisibleTime and Delay Properties have no effect. To set VisibleTime and
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Associations
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Applications such as WinZip add new items to Explorer's File and context menus for all files and folders on the system. Although WinZip uses Shell Extensions to achieve this, it is much easier to do using verbs. This article demonstrates how to use the .NET Registry classes to add new shortcut verbs
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Creating and Modifying Shortcuts
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This article provides a .NET class wrapper around the ShellLink object which enables you to read, create and modify Shortcuts under any version of Windows. As a bonus, you also get an Icon Picker implementation which demonstrates how to extract all the Windows icon resources from any executable or D
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Getting File Icons Using The Shell
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The .NET Framework doesn't provide much in the way for classes to interact with the Shell. This article provides a simple class which wraps the Shell's SHGetFileInfo to extract large and small icons plus the display name and file type for any file.
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Enumerating Windows
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This sample provides a class wrapper around the EnumWindows and EnumChildWindows API calls for use in .NET.
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Manipulating Windows Event Log
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Windows Event Log keeps track of system wide and application level events. These events messages constitute things such as information messages, error messages, warnings and alerts. If your system is giving some troubles event log is the first place an administrator will look into. .NET framework pr
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Creating a Windows Service using VB.NET Part-I
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Microsoft introduced long running background application called Services along with Windows NT Operating System. These services are multithreaded. Writing a windows NT Service using VB 6 was a tedious job. However, VB.NET masks the task much easy. In this article I will show you how to create a simp
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Monitoring File System Events
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In some applications like file system explorers, file managers etc. it becomes necessary to keep an eye on file system changes. In traditional tools like VB6 this task usually required some third party component or Windows APIs. In .NET the FileSystemWatcher class from System.IO namespace provides e
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