Hannes DuPreez

Sometimes, a standard control isn’t enough. There might be a situation where you need to make a custom ComboBox or extend it to add more functionality to it. Today, you will learn how to create a ComboBox capable of displaying images next to its list items. What Is a ComboBox? A ComboBox is a combination […]

Remote Desktop Protocol RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is a protocol developed by Microsoft that provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. Windows Remote Desktop Services is a server-based presentation virtualization component that allows a user to access applications and data hosted on a remote computer over […]

There are numerous List controls in the .NET Framework, each with their own uniqueness and purpose. In this article, you will learn how to insert, add, and remove items from Listboxes, ComboBoxes, CheckedListBoxes, ListViews, and TreeViews. This article will be mostly practical. Create a new Visual Basic Windows Forms application. Once the project has finished […]

User rights (permissions) and privileges is a topic that will eventually come up at some point in your developer career. It is inevitable. In this article, you will explore the various ways to cater to Admin permissions in your Visual Basic programs. The Difference Between Privileges and Permissions In computer security, a permission is a […]

Bots are becoming increasingly popular, with good reason. Technology has come a very long way; but, there are times when certain technologies seem to reach a point where they cannot go any further. A point where some new “life” is needed—a change, or an improvement. Such is the case with bots. In the 90s, Web […]

In this day and age—the selfie age—photos are everything. Apart from self-portraits, images are vital anywhere. As a developer, you normally wouldn’t know which pictures will be used in an application until you receive them. In cases such as mine (I work for a big company, but we have a small IT department), the developers […]

Visual Basic is quite easy. It gets a lot of flack for being so easy. It makes learning the concepts of programming very simple. I used to be a programming trainer and used the BASIC language as the first stepping stone into the world of software development, and it has worked. It has worked for […]

Introduction Menus are vital to any application. Depending on the program, the menus enable the user to physically use your program. The user chooses whichever menu and the program responds accordingly—whether it is showing a dialog box, or changing the color of the words, or exiting. Menus Menus allow you to arrange commands in a […]

Bots A bot, or Web robot, is the most common bot system. A Web robot is an application that can run automated tasks. These tasks are usually structurally repetitive and bots can perform these tasks much faster than humans. Because of the speed at which bots can perform tasks, they also can be implemented where […]

Introduction Spelling and grammar are a headache, especially for a bi-lingual person such as me. I am quite good with spelling, but grammar not that much. Today, you will learn how to create your own spelling checker. Our Project The project is nothing spectacular. There are simply two buttons on the form, as shown in […]

Introduction In this day and age, it is critical to know on which platform your application is run. Today, I will show you how to check if your application is running on a touchable device. Detecting Touch There are a few ways to detect touch events in your non-UWP applications. Non-UWP applications are not Universal […]

If you are already familiar with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), you can jump down to our coverage of adding camera support. If not, read on! Introduction to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) A Universal Windows Platform app can run on any Windows-based device, from your phone to your tablet or PC. With a UWP […]