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This function change the CommandButton style to a BS_GROUPBOX to transform it like a Frame control! This solve many problems (bad drawning controls, flickering, etc.).

A 'VERY' How To Use Windows XP icons (32bpp with Alpha channel) from Visual Basic. The VB 'standard' methods not allow to use this icons, and reject them with "Invalid image" error message. This code show (using advanced of API) how to load this icon types. Not only! You can choose 'which' image format and size to load from icon file.

Formatting text with various alignment and margins. The standard TextWidth is not accurate, specially if you want text justified exactly. With API functions is very simple!

MenuExtended with MenuDesigner is a tool for advanced menu subclassing. Add/customize background, color, images, sidebar with text/image, three menu style: Office2000, Button, OfficeXP, and more... ALL WITHOUT TO WRITE CODE!!! With MenuDesigner you customize all the properties at runtime, and has Multi-Languages support (9 languages is includes). Visit my website http://www.vbcorner.net/eng to download the MenuExtended.dll and other info.

This function change the CommandButton style to a BS_GROUPBOX to transform it like a Frame control! This solve many problems (bad drawning controls, flickering, etc.).

A 'VERY' How To Use Windows XP icons (32bpp with Alpha channel) from Visual Basic. The VB 'standard' methods not allow to use this icons, and reject them with "Invalid image" error message. This code show (using advanced of API) how to load this icon types. Not only! You can choose 'which' image format and size to load from icon file.

This function change the CommandButton style to a BS_GROUPBOX to transform it like a Frame control! This solve many problems (bad drawning controls, flickering, etc.).

A 'VERY' How To Use Windows XP icons (32bpp with Alpha channel) from Visual Basic. The VB 'standard' methods not allow to use this icons, and reject them with "Invalid image" error message. This code show (using advanced of API) how to load this icon types. Not only! You can choose 'which' image format and size to load from icon file.

Formatting text with various alignment and margins. The standard TextWidth is not accurate, specially if you want text justified exactly. With API functions is very simple!

MenuExtended with MenuDesigner is a tool for advanced menu subclassing. Add/customize background, color, images, sidebar with text/image, three menu style: Office2000, Button, OfficeXP, and more... ALL WITHOUT TO WRITE CODE!!! With MenuDesigner you customize all the properties at runtime, and has Multi-Languages support (9 languages is includes). Visit my website http://www.vbcorner.net/eng to download the MenuExtended.dll and other info.

The NC project intend to help developers that have to change the TCP/IP parameters protocoll frequently to connect to different network server (LAN). It is a paranoia insert 'by hand' this parameters each time, when you change company (network lan). The concept is simple: NC use a "profile" to keep all network parameters; you can use many profiles (no limit to this!). When you have to connect to a Lan, activate the appropriate profile. Go to other company? Active the relative profile! Finally, when you return to home, you can activate the Home profile or reset to DHCP, that is: "Obtain automatic IP and DNS address. If you modify, bug-fix or enhanced this project I will grant to inform me about this changes, so I can update the project on my web site, for other users. NC support: tray icon, auto-run on Windows startup, multi-language (italian, english and deutsch, by now), multi network cards,... Thank to Mario Raccagni for your technical support, and Roberto Doretto for the enhanced support to choose more than one network cards! ============================================================ IMPORTANT Thank to the HIDEONSTARTUP parameter, you can load NC on startup and see the tray icon only. Right click to the icon open the NC menu.

CD Enhanced is a sample VB project that show how to use the system CommonDialog without OCX/DLL. Moreover, show how to use CommonDialog 'callback' to enhanced your dialogs and manage advanced features never see like: images preview (with stretch or not), audio wav/midi preview (play directly in CommonDialog!), you can add custom image where you want, resize common dialog to add your controls (TextBox, Toolbar, PictureBox, ecc. and manage them events). Example you can add a TextBox in the system Font dialog that display a custom text. With this CD class you can transform a system CommonDialog how you desire!!! The image below shows the Audio-Preview dialog with a top custom image.

This function change the CommandButton style to a BS_GROUPBOX to transform it like a Frame control! This solve many problems (bad drawning controls, flickering, etc.).

A 'VERY' How To Use Windows XP icons (32bpp with Alpha channel) from Visual Basic. The VB 'standard' methods not allow to use this icons, and reject them with "Invalid image" error message. This code show (using advanced of API) how to load this icon types. Not only! You can choose 'which' image format and size to load from icon file.

Formatting text with various alignment and margins. The standard TextWidth is not accurate, specially if you want text justified exactly. With API functions is very simple!

MenuExtended with MenuDesigner is a tool for advanced menu subclassing. Add/customize background, color, images, sidebar with text/image, three menu style: Office2000, Button, OfficeXP, and more... ALL WITHOUT TO WRITE CODE!!! With MenuDesigner you customize all the properties at runtime, and has Multi-Languages support (9 languages is includes). Visit my website http://www.vbcorner.net/eng to download the MenuExtended.dll and other info.

The NC project intend to help developers that have to change the TCP/IP parameters protocoll frequently to connect to different network server (LAN). It is a paranoia insert 'by hand' this parameters each time, when you change company (network lan). The concept is simple: NC use a "profile" to keep all network parameters; you can use many profiles (no limit to this!). When you have to connect to a Lan, activate the appropriate profile. Go to other company? Active the relative profile! Finally, when you return to home, you can activate the Home profile or reset to DHCP, that is: "Obtain automatic IP and DNS address. If you modify, bug-fix or enhanced this project I will grant to inform me about this changes, so I can update the project on my web site, for other users. NC support: tray icon, auto-run on Windows startup, multi-language (italian, english and deutsch, by now), multi network cards,... Thank to Mario Raccagni for your technical support, and Roberto Doretto for the enhanced support to choose more than one network cards! ============================================================ IMPORTANT Thank to the HIDEONSTARTUP parameter, you can load NC on startup and see the tray icon only. Right click to the icon open the NC menu.

CD Enhanced is a sample VB project that show how to use the system CommonDialog without OCX/DLL. Moreover, show how to use CommonDialog 'callback' to enhanced your dialogs and manage advanced features never see like: images preview (with stretch or not), audio wav/midi preview (play directly in CommonDialog!), you can add custom image where you want, resize common dialog to add your controls (TextBox, Toolbar, PictureBox, ecc. and manage them events). Example you can add a TextBox in the system Font dialog that display a custom text. With this CD class you can transform a system CommonDialog how you desire!!! The image below shows the Audio-Preview dialog with a top custom image.

This function change the CommandButton style to a BS_GROUPBOX to transform it like a Frame control! This solve many problems (bad drawning controls, flickering, etc.).

A 'VERY' How To Use Windows XP icons (32bpp with Alpha channel) from Visual Basic. The VB 'standard' methods not allow to use this icons, and reject them with "Invalid image" error message. This code show (using advanced of API) how to load this icon types. Not only! You can choose 'which' image format and size to load from icon file.