Hannes DuPreez

Bing Search API The Bing Search API enables developers embed search results in Web sites or applications by using JSON or XML and add search functionality to your Web site. The Bing Search APIs v7 include the Bing Web Search API v7, Bing News Search API v7, Bing Video Search API v7, Bing Image Search […]

In early December 2017, Microsoft released major updates to Visual Studio 2017. For a full list of improvements and fixes, you can check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release Notes. Let’s have a look at some of the major improvements and new additions to Visual Studio 2017. Performance Solution load times for large […]

Visual Basic has come a long way since the introduction of .NET into the BASIC Language. It is difficult to imagine a world without the .NET Framework, but there once was. In the olden days, it was so difficult doing any sort of image manipulation in Visual Basic. This is where Photoshop has earned my […]

Introduction Every file has an icon. This icon depends on the program that can open the file in question. Obtaining these icons can be tricky, or easy, depending on the route you take. In this article, you will learn how to extract associated icons from files and display them in your programs. I will demonstrate […]

Drawing with the .NET Framework is very easy. There are numerous namespaces that allow you to draw any shape imaginable. A few years ago, I wrote a number of articles on how to create a drawing application, but I never got around to adding some more features into them. This is where this article comes […]

The .NET Framework provides numerous ways to obtain system information. Visual Basic.NET makes it even easier, but the ultimate power still lies within Windows itself, as you will soon see. Today, you will learn several ways to obtain information about your computer during runtime. The ComputerInfo Class The ComputerInfo class provides various properties for getting […]

Introduction JSON is a strange creature that you learn to love over time; LINQ, if you do not understand it, is the same. Today, I’d like to make your JSON and LINQ headaches disappear by showing you how to read JSON data using LINQ in Visual Basic. LINQ Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) adds query capabilities to […]

Mapped Drives Mapped Drives are hard drives—even if the particular drive is located on a Cloud or virtual computing system, or on a network drive. Mapped drives are represented in a similar manner than ordinary drives and folders on your PC. In the Practical section, that follows next, you will learn how to map network […]

Welcome to today’s article. Today, you are going to learn how to detect palindromes from within your VB.NET application. Palindromes A palindrome is a word, phrase, or number which reads the same backward as forward. There are different types of palindromes, including the following: Characters and words Sentences and phrases Names Numbers Semordnilap Characters and […]

I guess very few of my readers haven’t heard about BitCoin or Ethereum. Just when BitCoin started, one of my acquaintances wanted me to buy into it. I am a sceptic—always been, will probably always be—it’s hard-printed into my DNA. Before I go too far off-topic, let me stop here. I may not be completely […]

.NET has come a long way since the early 2000s. When the .NET Framework was launched, a new revolution began. Not long after the original .NET Framework was released, the .NET Compact Framework was released. .NET Compact Framework was released with Windows Mobile in mind, nothing else. Silverlight later emerged, then Windows Phone—all with different […]

Sometimes, it is the little things that can end up being quite annoying. This is especially if these little tasks become tedious and you have to repeat them a lot of times. Any developer has such a task. Any developer has that one thing that frustrates him or her, or a task that they simply […]