Tutorials

How To Build a Stub in Visual Basic .NET

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a stub in Visual Basic .NET. Builder: This is a follow on tutorial from my previous tutorial on how to create a builder in Visual Basic .NET which allows a user to input custom settings to their liking in to an application (the builder) which will then put those settings via the controls (textbox and checkbox in that example) in to the generated stub.

How to Fill and Get the Value Member of a ListBox in Visual Basic 2008 and MS Access Database

Submitted by janobe on
This time, I’m going to teach you how to fill and get the value member of a ListBox by using Visual Basic 2008 and MS Access Database. With this tutorial, you can fill the data to the ListBox that came from the Database and get its Id by clicking the name that shows in the ListBox. Let’s begin: Open the Visual Basic 2008 and create a new Windows Form Application. Drag a button and a ListBox in the Form.

How to set your TextBox to Show and Hide Password in the User Registration Form.

Submitted by janobe on
In this turtorial, I will teach you how to set your Textbox to "show" and "hide" Password in the User Rgistration Form by using Visual Basic 2008. This will help you determined the password that you have input in the Textbox when registering in the User Registration Form. So let’s begin: Open the Visual Basic 2008 and create a new Windows Form Application.

How to create a TextBox Programmatically in Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this turtorial, I will teach you how to create a TextBox programmatically by using Visual Basic 2008. With this, you don’t have to drag any TextBoxes in Form and set the location of it. It will create and set automatically. So let’s begin: First open Visual Basic 2008 and create a new Windows Form Application.

Basic Notepad in Visual Basic .NET

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to make a simple Notepad text editor in Visual Basic .NET. Controls: The controls we will need are; Button, button1, Save File Button, button2, Open File Textbox, textbox1, File Contents Imports: Before we begin, you need to import System.IO to allow our program to read and write to/from files.

Call Function by String Name in Visual Basic .NET

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to run a function using it's reference name as a string in Visual Basic .NET. Built In: Luckily enough, the .NET framework has a built in function which allows an object, string function name, invoke type, and parameters to be called - this function is named 'CallByName'.

Prototyping in C++

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to use Function Prototyping in C/C++. Function File: Here is a basic function file which, after running the 'int main' function, runs a custom function named 'calculate' which returns an integer and is output to the screen.
  1. #include <iostream>

Using Base64 Encryption for PHP APIs

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to use encryption to transfer data securely, or at least more seucrely than plain text, from a Visual Basic application (or other source) to a PHP API. Why Cryptography? Cryptography should be used for all sensitive information being used in public release applications, or if the data is sent cross-networks.

MD5 in PHP [Why? How? Explained]

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction This tutorial is on using MD5 encryption in PHP. Why MD5? MD5 is built in to PHP and is only a one way encryption. This means that even if someone was able to gain access to an encrypted md5 string, called an 'MD5 Hash', it is unlikely they would be able to convert the hash back in to the original plain text string. Decryption: Decryption in most cryptography languages essentially work by using the reverse algorithm to the encryption algorithm used by the cryptography method in question.