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Anyone know how whoami creates the wallpaper and adds the text in the wallpaper? I am curious to know...I have tried to replicate it with VB.net but cannot...

I have the following code after my form loads to get idle time and show a message box after 30 seconds. It works but it eats up cpu time, how can i make this more efficient?? I am using GetLastInputInfo to get the idle time. Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As...

I am working on a small application (hobbyist at programming) that will load in the system tray using an icon that I have created, when the mouse is over it it will display the system idle time. Two issues for me, I cannot make the form load as an icon to the system tray, and I am having a hard...

I am working on a webpage using VS2005 (learning 2005) and I would like for it to connect to a mySQL database and pull all the records from it into a table but I am not having much luck with the connection to the mySQL database, can you help?

What would be the easist and quickest way to get the computer name of the system running the application, right now I am using what is below Public Shared Function GetComputerName() As String Dim ComputerName As String ComputerName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName Return ComputerName End Function...

Is there a way to get logical disk information without using WMI?? I am not sure if any of you have run into this before but I cannot use WMI to get information about the computer :(

Function GetDriveSpace(ByVal computername As String) Dim objLD As Management.ManagementQuery objLD = New Management.ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk") Dim objWMIService As Management.ManagementScope objWMIService = New Management.ManagementScope("\\" & computername & "\root\cimv2")...

I have just started using VS 2005 and would like to use WMI to get information from a remote computer...there anything different about VS 2005 and WMI?

I am not really familiar with the ping function / method in VS.net 2005, I am looking for a small example that can ping a host and give me back a true or false reply. I have found a few long drawn out examples but I just found out about this ping method in VS 2005. Also wondering if VS 2005...

I am loading a form that is popuplated by infromation from a text file (list of computers), anyway right now i have the form getting the ip address and everything onload, i would rather have a load button on the toolbar that people can hit to load all the information about items on a tab page...

I am trying to populate a form with information from a text file, the text file has a list of computer names right now. I am not really that great with working with files, but I was thinking about using a tab control (create a new tab for computers with a different first letter) and list the...

I would like to add an auto update feature to a program that I have created that can go back to a share on the network and check for updates and update the exe or other files automaticlly before the program is launched, I am new to VB.net (been using kixtart and kixforms until now). Any help...