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Encrypts a file such as Exe/Txt and stores it in Bitmap Format.

Here's just a few special effects which I have thought of to do with a picture because I've seen an interest in the subject at PSC (laser effects - whoever first thought of it well done). With this code you can make any picture wave like a flag and animate it to flip as if it were a 2D piece of card being turned over. Both these effects can be applied horizontally or vertically. There is also a bonus zoom effect thrown in there. All effects can have the speed adjusted for different tastes/PC's.

This describes briefly how and more importantly why to hide data instead of just encrypting it.

This code rotates a point around another in 3D using simple fast code. It does this using x, y, z coordinates, cosine and sine. It is 100% accurate.

Automatically rescales a form to keep the layout identical at any size. For those of you out there who lock your forms to a certain size because rescaling is such a pain, give this a try...you will love it! NOTE: Although this code works as is, it is JUST AN EXAMPLE. You should be able to take the same logic and apply it to all of your forms, but please note that this example does not handle every type of control. For special controls (dbGrid, etc.) you will have to write a little code yourself to make it work.

Make's the title bar flash.

This tutorial teaches how to embed a XP Style Manifest file into a VB Compiled EXE. So you don't have to give a .manifest file with your exe file after apply this... (VOTE PLEASE)

I wrote this login utility for my dad at his work that prevents his co-workers from playing around on his computer, writing CD's and so on... It disables a user from accessing your computer. Next I will add encryption to prevent users from viewing username and password from registry. PLEASE VOTE MY CODE!!!

This article will cover the most important aspects of programming MSN using Visual Basic.

Sick and tired of all those nay-saying C/C++ programmers who tell you that VB is weak because it doesn't have support for Pointers? Silence them by learning the dark art of pointers in VB. Ok, so that's a wee bit dramatised, but this article will help you work out how to use pointers in VB 5 and 6. -- Update 1 -- Modified the CSS styles to (hopefully) make it a little more readable on PSC -- Update 2 -- Changed the wording on one line a bit to make it easier to read (thanks go to José Pablo Ramírez Vargas for that suggestion)

Allows you to Drag an entire form by an object(picture,label, whatever) Drag and snap works in all versions or windows, 95,98,XP,2000,ME,NT. This also has built in optional screen snapping. Once you drag a form to the edge of your screen the form will snap to it.

Many people want to know how to start there application when windows starts and not simply by putting a shortcut in the windows startup folder.This article will show you how to do this using vb and a few api's

A few Lines of code to show you the version of windows you are running.

A easy/simple way to work out the Index value of a button on a toolbar. Simply move the mouse over a toolbar, and it will work out the index value of the button! *** Please vote for my code ***

Change your desktop icon views.

This is a very simple program. It simply shows beginners how to browse through files on your computer without the comdlg32.ocx control (it gets somewhat annoying to use this control on every application and then having to include it in a zip file if you're sending it to your friends). It's nothing that took me a long time to do, maybe a minute, but it might be useful to someone. Oh yeah, and this only uses the standard VB controls, no additional Active X controls

Secure method of removing duplicate entries from a combobox. Optional second pass to remove possible 'left-over' dupes after first pass.

This is just an easy, simple, short, fast and effective way to randomize a listbox. Useful for playlists etc. I took this out of a bigger "auto dj" program I made for our local radio station. I have submitted this for the newbies who might be having the same trouble I did when I first tried to randomize a list of items. :o)

Deletes multiple lines/rows from MSFlexGrid and confirms the number of rows to delete.

Let me intoduce you to Langston's Ant. its an interesting demonstation of somthing called 'emergent behaviour'. Imagine a large surface made up of square, white tiles with an imaginary ant somewhere around the middle. The ant follows two very simple rules. The first rule states that if the ant is on a white tile, it turns black, and the ant then moves foward one square and turns left and continues. The other rule is, if the ant is on a black square, the ant turns it white, then moves foward and to the right and continues. When the ant starts to move, the movement appears random. At around 10,000 moves it suddenly switches to a fixed and repeditave pattern of movement that it wont deviate. Even if the surface is seeded with black squares, the result is the same, but the number of moves will be more. You will find that in all instences the same final fixed pattern is acheived. So far, no one has come up with mathematical proof that this will always be so. * for versions earler than VB6, delete the private from the sub to get it working.