Lee-Programmer

You may be right about this, but look at the main features of the two similar but different programming languages.Visual Basic .NET's major advantage is that it has .asp (active server pages) and SQL and built in xml tools. But, it does not do that well with other aspects of programming such as OpenGL and Direct X. It aslo involves with a lot of web controls, giving the hint that it is meant for servers.Visual Basic 6 has a better capability over things such as graphic manipulation fares better, creating .ocx and .dll and slightly better in API (but not as good in C/C++). As you can see, these things are all local resource programs. Visual Basic 6's internet connection tools are really, bad. The only way it can comunicate is to use a plugin written in some other language, or with API, which is not that great.And additionally, .NET has this capability of a Client to Server capability included, which was why I said server language (althogh i meant server-client). I have used .NET before, don't think amade random assumtions.PS: Even if I use GNU C++, I do not really like Microsoft C#. It is just a lousy effort by Microsoft to monoplise the programming language (note that is why we don't get compilers for such programs (such as C# and VB) from non-Microsoft based companies). C++ and Java are open languages, like html, anybody could make compilers for them if they want.

I think I used it before. jetAudio Basic. It's a freeware I got from Download.com. It looks cool and i remember it could sit as an icon on the windows tray and as a bar which is just as you said. I'm not too sure of the format part though. It suppourted many formats, thats one thing I know for sure. It is good but not that supported thanks to Microsoft's bunddling of softwares which smashed quite a number of competitors.

PDF Creator I found in SourceForge.net is good. It creates a "printer" and then just make any document you want then print it into the "printer". Simple and nice. You ought to check it out.PS: It's free and open source as well.

That list above is beatiful. Just beautiful.Anyways, I'd agree to AVG Free Edition. It's free and light weight (i.e. not taking up much system memory). It is nice and the restrictions to it (Just the scheduler which is complete in Professional Version) does not bother me much. It does not nag me much at all (reminding me to get paid editions). It's virus detection is good and responsive. The only disadvantage I'd say is that it is not really as fast as Norton, which would be a pain if you have a large HDD. Otherwise, I like it.Paidware, Freeware, what really matters is it's overall aspect. That's more important.

Well, I like youtube.com a lot. The streaming videos for free, easy loading, what more can you get? Well anyways there is competition here. Google Video is out and I heard that Microsoft is following suite. It's quite a struggle but I haven't really tried out those two. Back to the point. YouTube has the LARGEST collecton of streaming video there. A quick search could reveal plenty of those files. A good website.

Hm... I never used Shareaza before but I used Morpheus, Kazza, Limewire, Azerus and BitcometTo think about it, .torrent files are usually better for really large files while the others are more suited for music files or other small files (10 MB or so). Kazza was a pool of virus, filled with worms and trojans (spyware was not that big at that time). My Norton had to struggle to keep up. Next we have Morpheus. It is rather good, actually, it has this special and default setting which automatically calls the computer's default antivirus to scan any downloaded file in quarrentine mode. The problem however was that it strangled my 512 MB RAM. Fast and innovative though. This one could also download .torrent files as well.Following on we have Limewire. It has good searching capabilities and the interface was quite rather pleasant. It is not as fast as Morpheus but hardly noticable with music size files. Less resource taking, which is good for old computers.Following up is Azerus. Its interface and tabbed information gives it a nice interface. The problem is that there were oftenly bugs with the tracker, which made some downloads slow. Those could be fixed though. Eventually.Finally we have Bitcomet. It has no bugs so far in my month and a half of usage. Anyways the interface is not so user friendly since it cramps all the information of a file into a list. However, it is rather fast compared to Azerus.Overall, with Morpheus being safe, fast and is intertwined between P2P Software and Torrent Downloader, I'd reccomend to those with good RAM cards. Alternaatively, Bitcomet to those who don't. (like me *sigh*)

Note for beginers, the words placed in single quotation marks are comments Heheheh. This is easy. Very easy. Quick Solutions In VB6, you just need the default controls. Importantly, the Image control (not picture control using that would kill the cpu) and a Timer control. Prepare the slides of the animation. You could do this by taking frame by frame shots of a movie, gif animation, etc. Best way to experiment is with... STICK FIGURES!!! (fine, be Van Goh if you want. But you'll die at frame 3) Rename the frames from 1 to say 32 same file extentions (say .bmp) put it in a folder called Animation1/ Then, create one image control (I hereby declare this control by its default name, Image1). Next, add the Timer Control (blah blah blah as above, Timer1) Set the timer's interval. This will become the the animation's frame interval. Set the timer's enabled to false if you want to pause it, set to true for resuming. Then add this nifty code to the same form as the controls: Dim ImgCounter as Integer 'Use Long if you plan to make a movie out of this'Private Const AniMax as Integer = 33 'Change the number if you like (last frame + 1)'Private sub Timer1_Timer()ImgCounter = ImgCounter + 1Image1.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "/Animation1/" & Trim(Str(ImgCounter)) & ".bmp" 'change file extention if necessary')If ImgCounter = AniMax ThenImgCounter = 0 'Not 1 or else the next time this function repeats, it'll skip frame 1'End IfEnd SubPublic Function Frame_GoTo(iFrame as Integer)If iFrame < AniMax And iFrame > 0 ThenImgCounter = iFrameImage1.Picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "/Animation1/" & Trim(Str(ImgCounter)) & ".bmp")End IfEnd Function There. With the extra function you can go to any frame within the range by calling it up. You do this by entering the code:Frame_GoTo('frame no.') Ta da! The simple animation ready to roll. Second Alternative: Create a .avi, .mpeg or .mp4 file and embed it with the program. Instant animaiton. Eats the RAM though, so be careful.

I'm not really trying to tease you here, but that is VB.NET. It has quite some difference to VB6. Doing this in VB6 will cause an error. That's why, trust your instincts, unless you do not feel the passion of programming (Purrr). Form what I could gather, it only exist in VB.NET. PS: VB.NET is a language for computer servers, hardly useful in a normal program.

Not exactly. Keeping a file hidden will make things more complicated as the user might want to move the program and, without notice, leaves the .mdb file behind. Besides, you need to manually make the file hidden or else you are breaching software trust laws. If you don't mind the .mdb file to be edited, keep it visible and include a readme file to tell the user to move along with the program. If not, do the same, but include these step: 1. Design or get the source code of an encrytion program and add that to your program. 2. Encrypt the .mdb file 3. Program the code so that you create a cache of the decrypted file. READ ON FIRST!!! 4. Add this code at the program's startup right after finishing the chache: Dim FileNum As Integer 'Put this into the declararions section'FileNum= FreeFileOpen 'Inset code here' For Input as #FileNum5. Those who understand file acess will truly laugh at this. You keep the file used by the program and it can hardly be acessed except by some proffesional programmer. 6. Just before you close the program, add Close #FileNumor else you will need to restart the computer before being able to reuse the application again. Alternatively: 1. Use Microsoft Acess to lock the .mdb file with a password. In Tools > Options menu. It's not hard to find from there. 2. In the VB development, right click on the tool bar and select Components... and search for Microsoft ADO Data Control. Use it in replacement of the default Data Control. It's a but different but the basics is still the same. Experiment with it for a while. Adapt the program to the control. 3. Just before acessing the file add:Adodc1.password = 'password to the code. Note: replace the name of the component as necessary. This method is simpler but causes some campatability issues. I will only reccomend this to people with experience in the field of compatibility (or you could take the fun out by including the .dll file of the ADO component into the same directory as the program) .

Well, for one thing, many people have supported JS, wholly of its compatibility and safety. Frankly speaking, VB script is not very effective, not as powerful as JS and is horrifically cut down by a whole lot from the original VB6. VB is good, but VBS has just been a push by Microsoft to get into scripting. They did a messy job of it. Even MS IE 6 has some bugs with VBS. Stick to JS. It's nice and simple. Ther more simple, the better to code.

Man, I played it some time ago and it is one of the worst game you could get. I must admit, getting an online game into Java is quite impressive, but that is where all good comments(or rather comment) ends.Here is a list of A FEW of the games bad points:-Who but fanatics would pay for such a game? (for goodness sake, RO had free servers, the game was full and the onlydifference between free and paid is the speed of the server!)-Standing at the edge of the wilderness, I could see at least 1 scam to inexperienced users taking place every 5 minutes near peak hours.-The game is choppy and poor graphics. It reminds you of the ol' 1980's games.-You die in the game, you loose everything you are carrying, making scammers feel in heaven. Some other good games only give a penalty of lost of exp points, loosing all exp points since the last save session, etc.-The game is so boring and limited. There isn't any fun.-The gameplay itself is bad. Sitting there as your character swings his/her wepon like a ... traffic policemen waving car signals and then numbers tick off the person. Nothng else.-The sound is HORRIBLE. People can get trauma from it. I have DOS games which has nicer sound effects (Never mind about DOS games like Doom, the father of non-ASCII 3D games, it might even be worse than pong)Ahhhhh, glad to have that heaved off me. Conclusion: the game is horrible and stay away from it, don't be scarred, like others like me. 1/5 (could I put 0/5?)