How To Get The Windows Product Key In VB.NET

Let's get our windows product key from vb.net

Add the function below in your codes

How To Get HWID In VB.NET

Make a new project, right click on your project from solution explorer and select add reference then a window will come up now select System Management from .NET in the window.
After adding the reference go to the code and add this namespace : imports system.management now you just need to add the code that you can see below in any event, try the form load first.

Adobe Flash Player Updater Progressbar For VB.NET

this is something very cool by the way i am using images , if you know adobe flash player updater else here is a picture of the adobe flash updater progressbar

adobe flash player updater

ok lets get started just create a new project and download this files and add them to the resources and now add a picturebox and rename to pbback select picture box 1 backgroundimage from properties and select pb4 image from resources and now add a timer and set the interval to 100 and make the timer enabled = true you can change the timer interval for your needs if you want and now add a button two buttons from the toolbox , button one is to start the progressbar and button two is to reset the progressbar , add two pictureboxes and change the size to 2, 31 and rename one to pbright and the other one to pbleft now place the pbright on the right side of the picturebox1 and place the pbleft on the left side of the picturebox1

pbright and pbleft

now fix pbleft and pbright with pbback

How To Connect And Disconnect The Internet Using VB.NET

this is something simple , i have two ways . one is using cmd and the other one is using shell commands but the both are one line code

How To Make A Simple Captcha Control In ASP.NET

this is my first tutorial on asp.net by the way i am a beginner , i dont think this is something advanced but hope this is useful . i am gonna teach you how to make a simple captcha control without using any HTTP HANDLERS and you can easily add it to your website . all you need is a aspx page so create one ,, the aspx page will have image/jpg . i am using system.drawing namespace to create dynamic images , system will be generating two random numbers and it will store the results of the two numbers into a session variable .

for instance :

a = 2 + 6 (2 and 6 are two random numbers)

session("Answer") = 8

code for captcha.aspx

How To Make Your Programs Run Automatically When Windows Starts In VB.NET

This is something very useful this is will work on all windows versions because we are using registry and registry is the only way add programs to startup so lets get started making it. You need a button to add your application to startup and you need another button to remove your application from startup, you can also use checkbox instead buttons but i recommend buttons because that is the control that mostly suit for the work so when you add to buttons edit there property TEXT as given below

button1 - Add
button2 - Remove

Double click your button1 and add this code . dont forget to replace application name with your application name and one more thing dont forget to add the same application name to button 2 click event

How To Make A Web Scraper In VB.NET

You have a Web Browser on your application and a listbox and a button(i didn't mention about webbrowser controls) so when you're on a website or a lets say a web page you can click on the button and the all links of the website will be listed on the listbox

create a new project and add a listbox and a button and a webbrowser (add webbrowser controls)

now double click your button and add this code

    'Author : Mohamed Shimran
    'Blog : http://www.ultimateprogrammingtutorials.blogspot.com

Dim links As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.Links
        For Each link As HtmlElement In links
            ListBox1.Items.Add(link.GetAttribute("href"))
        Next

now just debug

How To Add Watermark Text To Image In VB.NET

adding watermark text to image using vb.net , for sure i will say AWESOME , by the way i am not going to write a big tutorial with a lot functions i will just teach the basics then you can develop it as much as i know . you can add custom watermark text placer,font color,font,font size,save,etc so lets make it , open your visual basic 2008/2010 and make a new project and name it whatever you want and add two buttons and a textbox and a picturebox , click picturebox1 and properties > backgroundimagelayout > stretch . make your form look like what i have made up

How To Get Installed Fonts In VB.NET

this is not something as i wrote before by the way its kinds of that , i am just using a listbox and a label in this tutorials , the listbox will show all the fonts installed on your computer and the label will show how many fonts you have installed , lets make it , create a new project and name it whatever you want and add a listbox from the toolbox and a label and make everything fits the form like mine
get installed fonts