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September 21, 2022 0 comments

FileSystemWatcher – LastAccess Not Working

To have System.IO.FileSystemWatcher LastAccess work, the system must have access logging enabled with the following command. fsutil behavior set DisableLastAccess 0 After setting this, reboot, and you can successfully use the FileSystemWatcher to monitor LastAccess of files (sorta). Example Code FileSystemWatcher lWatcher = new FileSystemWatcher(@”C:\windows\temp”, “*.*”); lWatcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess; lWatcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true; lWatcher.Changed += new…

December 1, 2016 1 comment

Get File Count Recursively

The fastest routine for counting all files recursively given a path in VB.NET that I’ve found so far.

November 27, 2016 2 comments

Development Log: Duplicate File Finder

I have thousands of files stored on an external USB attached 1TB drive. My drive is currently 95% full. I know I have duplicate files throughout the drive because over time I have been lazy and made backups of backups (or copies of copies) of images or other documents.Time to clean house.I’ve searched online for…

August 8, 2014 2 comments

Office.com Online using WinForms

This isn’t true API access, just a WebBrowser control. I’m looking into the API though which would require me to register my Application even though it’s not a Windows App. It has a launcher (I haven’t decided exactly how I’ll integrate this) that will launch the Microsoft Office Online services at the click of a…

August 8, 2014 0 comments

Change User-Agent in WebBrowser Control

This snippet of code worked when tested in VB.NET application I’m working on. It will set the User Agent string for the duration of the control. Private Property uag As String = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko _ Private Shared Function UrlMkSetSessionOption(ByVal dwOption As Integer, ByVal pBuffer As String, ByVal dwBufferLength…

June 5, 2014 0 comments

Stopwatch for Windows

I forgot I wrote this for a specific reason some time ago and came across it this morning decluttering some folders on my NAS. I can’t find the source, but when I do I’ll put a link to it here for Github. It is a stupidly simple stopwatch written in VB.NET. I have a 32bit…

February 15, 2013 0 comments

Tool: bitcalc – A Bit Calculator in .NET

Convert between bits/bytes/kilobits/kilobytes/megabits/megabytes/gigabits/gigabytes What is it? This is completely based on Matisse.net’s online bitcalc tool: http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/ Enter in an amount of units and click calculate. For example, in the screenshot, I entered in 1024 gigabytes. The calculator converts 1024GB to bits, bytes, kilobits, kilobytes, megabits, megabytes, gigabits, gigabytes, terabits, terabytes, petabits and petabytes. I have written…

January 29, 2013 0 comments

Tool: AutoLogon – Configure Windows' Automatic User Logon

What is it? I created a small tool to help facilitate setting the default user to automatically logon to a system. Requirements Administrator Privileges .NET 2.0 or greater Details There are 4 registry entries of interest here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon] AutoAdminLogon=1 DefaultUserName= DefaultPassword= ForceAutoLogon=1 If you don’t want to download and run my program, you can…

August 16, 2012 3 comments

Yawcam Viewer

I am working on a Motion-JPEG stream viewer for the Yawcam webcam streaming software. This allows you to enter your stream’s URL and choose the size for the display and it will stream the Motion-JPEG (MJPG) using Aforge’s Video library since I’m not writing a parser for the MJPG stream in VB.net. Here’s a screenshot…