August 31, 2002

‘ a class to display the BrowseForFolders dialog’ usage:’ Dim diag As New BrowseForFoldersDialog()’ diag.Description = “Select a directory”‘ If diag.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then’ ‘ the user selected this directory’ directory = diag.Path’ End If” IMPORTANT: requires a reference to the System.Design.Dll assemblyClass BrowseForFoldersDialog ‘ the Description that appears in

You can host the WebBroweser in a Windows Forms application, similarly to what you can do with any other ActiveX control. You just need to right-click on the control toolbox, select the Customize Toolbox menu command, select the Microsoft Web Browser control from the list of available controls, and click

The System.Net.Dns class exposes a few static methods that let you resolve an internet domain name – such as www.vb2themax.com – into a 4-part numeric IP address, also known as dotted-quad notation.The Resolve static method takes a string and returns an IPHostEntry object; you can learn the actual IP address

The .NET framework includes a ByteViewer control, that you can use on your own forms to display data stored in a Byte array or in a file. The ByteViewer control can’t be added to the control Toolbox, though, so you must instantiate it through code only. ‘ IMPORTANT: this code

The String.Format function supports many formatting options, but none allows you to display right-aligned columns of numbers, as in: 1.00 12.00 123.00 1,234.00 However, you can easily create a helper function that works like String.Format, takes an additional length argument, and aligns the result to that length: Function RightFormat(ByVal formatString