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How to Create an On-Screen Dimension Calculator in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to my tutorial on how to create a on-screen dimensions calculator. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with a button to begin the process. We also want to make two labels, one to say "Console:" and label2 to contain the current console status, set the default to "Idle...". We then want to Import System.Threading because we will be using a one second

How to Create a Image Viewer in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a Image Viewer in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with a button to laod the given image, a listbox to contain each loadable image from the given directory and a picturebox with the background image format set to zoom to display the given image correctly. Step 2: Next we want to create a defaultPath to load

How to Create a Reminder Tool in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a reminder tool in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with; Button1 - to add a new reminder Label2 - to store the current time Textbox1 - to store the text of a new reminder Textbox2 - to store the time of a new reminder Step 2: Next we want to create some custom functions, the titles of each explain exactly

How to Create a File Browser in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a file browser in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with a listbox to contain the current path items (files and directories), a button to open a directory and a button to go up a level. We also want to import System.IO so we can access our files, directories and paths. Imports System.IO Step 2: So, first

How to Create a Random ID Generator in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a Random ID generator. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First lets import System.Net and System.Text so we can use the internet and a function get a string between two points within a given string. Let's import those now and create our getbetween function... Imports System.Net Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Private Function GetBetween(ByVal

How to Create a Program to Login to Twitter in Visual Basic

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple program to login to Twitter. This bot will not do anything other than login so you must know bot basics to carry on for performing actions. Steps of Creation: Step 1: I have created a simple form with just a button1 which is used for starting the process; Textbox1 to contain the username/email and Textbox2 for the password. You will

How to Create a Random Line Selector in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to my tutorial on how to create a random line selector from a word document. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with... Textbox1 - File Path Textbox2 - Chosen line Button1 - Browser for file path Button2 - Get random line Step 2: Now lets do the button1 function - selecting a file path... Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

How to Create a Text Editor in Visual Basic

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a text editor in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we need a form. Mine will consist of; - Richtextbox1 - Contain text contents - Button1 - Load File - Button2 - Save File - Button3 - Save File As New Name Step 2: Now lets import System.IO so we can read and write files. We also want to create a path String variable to contain our opened

How to Create a Syntax Checker in Visual Basic

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Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a simple tool to check the amount of opening and closing braces in your script syntax. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with: - Button1 - To begin the checking process - RichTextBox1 - To contain the source code Step 2: Next we want to go to the button1 click event and create two new integers, one to count the amount of

How to Create a Clock in Visual Basic

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Introduction: Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a clock in Visual Basic. Steps of Creation: Step 1: I will just be loading the current time in to a simple, plain label. You can customize yours or set it as a filewriter etc. So first we want to set checking for illegal crossThread calls to false on the form load. This is because we will be using a new thread to run the loop of updating the