Monthly Archives: September 2009
How to Check whether the application is running in IDE or as EXE
In our Windows Application, some times we may need to check whether our application is running in IDE or is running as EXE. A typical example would be, we might use Development Server while working in development/debug mode. Once the … Continue reading
How to properly terminate the application by passing the process name
We should not directly kill the process. We should properly close the main window of the application using CloseMainWindow(). Here is the proper way of terminating the application in VB.Net. The code below will request the application to close properly … Continue reading
How to create a simple internet browser in Visual Basic 2008
Here is the presentation of how to create a simple web browsers using Visual Basic 2008: Author: SimpleVbTuts Incoming search terms:browser in dotnetdot net internet browseredit ie in vb 2008how to create a browser with dot nethow to develop internet … Continue reading
How to get the active Window Title by passing the process name
Here is the VB.Net code which will help you to get the active Window title for the given process name: Module modMain Sub Main() ‘How to call this function: Console.WriteLine(GetWindowTitleNameByProcessName(“firefox”)) ‘This will return the current title of firefox application End … Continue reading
How to get list of installed software names and its locations
The following VB.Net code grabs list of all installed software and its installed location from your PC. Imports Microsoft.Win32 Module modMain Sub Main() Dim InstalledSoftwareKey As String = “SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products” Using RegKey As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(InstalledSoftwareKey) For Each iKey In RegKey.GetSubKeyNames() … Continue reading