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Does anybody here have any experience with Visual Basic programming? I have learnt the basics, but i was wondering if anybody wants to share code snippets here.
I have basically worked out the code, but not how to implement it powerfully – i can make programs like calculators, word processors, spell checkers and the like, but nothing that will link with the external computer. For example – using the Visual Basic GUI to create a taskbar button, or to change the wording on the ‘Start’ button at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Does anybody know how to import system information into the program?
And also, although this is really basic, can somebody teach me the Do…Loop..Until command sequence?
try w3schools they are a very good resource and will have all the answers you need – personally unsure as to why you are learning visual basic and not java.
Pros of Java: It’s a powerful cross-platform programming language that is similar to C++ but easier to learn
Cons: you can’t do low-level systems stuff with it. Some things are counterintuitive and hard to learn
Pros of VB: You can start writing complex GUI programs as soon as you start learning
Cons: You can’t do anything serious beyond macros.
mamash ah shaygetz – I used to work for a corporate running approx $150m printing business on a VB app
Using VB you can start with VB.NET, and build pretty advanced applications. However, you still can’t do low level programming.
It is incredibly unlikely that the shoel wants to do low level programming that would not be possible in VB.net
All these things are pretty much command line utilities that are included in a standard windows install. You could call the exe’s from within the VB app, there are probably fancier ways of doing this though.
Maybe have a look for command line utilities that will give you the info you need and then figure out how to call them
you could just use a simple shell command if thats what you are looking for
Some of our systems are written in VB, the Pro is that anyone with just a little programing knowledge can right away see how the software is constructed.
in reality, almost anything can be done with any language, you would just need a different approach.
look for SystemInformation.UserName on msdn
A great book, Sam Teach yourself programming in 24 hours.
2scents, one thing I tried to do and found no work-around for, is to recover data. There is just no way to access the hard drive raw.
Try python
2scents, one thing I tried to do and found no work-around for, is to recover data. There is just no way to access the hard drive raw.
This isn’t an VB issue, in VB you can make any API call including those involving RawDisk and it will work if you run it on older versions of Windows. The problem is that any User Mode program has limited access to RawDisk regardless of group membership.
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