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Write a console utility to list processes

The Process class provides all you need to create a command-line utility that lists all the processes running on the system and all the related information. This utility is therefore

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Write a console utility to kill a process

The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes two methods that let you kill a process: CloseMainWindow should be used with processes that have a graphical interface, whereas the Kill method should be used

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Wait for a process to terminate

You can use the VB.NET Shell command (in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) to run an external process and wait for its termination, but you can get better control if you work

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FormatMemorySize – Format a value in bytes

Enum FormatMemorySizeUnits BestGuess Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes GigabytesEnd Enum’ convert a number of bytes into Kbytes, Megabytes, or GigabytesFunction FormatMemorySize(ByVal value As Long, _ ByVal unit As FormatMemorySizeUnits, Optional ByVal decimalDigits

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FormatValue – Format a value in a column of given width

Enum FormatColumnAlignment Left Center RightEnd Enum’ format a value in a column of given width and with specified alignment’ using the specified pad character Function FormatValue(ByVal value As String, ByVal

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How to improve performance with pinned tables

SQL Server experts know that the DB engine never accesses directly the data pages on disk; rather it uses a special module called “Cache Manager”. It is possible, by using

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Determine the size of a structure

Unlike previous Visual Basic versions, under VB.NET you can’t use the Len function to calculate the length of a Structure or a class. However, it is easy to get this

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Store large Boolean arrays in a BitArray object

.NET Boolean values require 4 bytes each, as opposed to the 2 byte taken under previous VB versions. When creating very large Boolean arrays this extra memory impacts negatively on

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Release COM objects earlier

If you’re using a COM object through COM Interop you should be aware that the object isn’t released as soon as you set it to Nothing, as it happens with

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Let VB Spell the Control Name for You

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Count the Number of Elements in an Array

This function computes the number of elements of any one-dimensional array?it sure beats ripping open the SAFEARRAY array descriptor. Use it when you Related Posts Get Current Language of SQL

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Extend Registry Functionality

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Return Strings From an API

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Pass Error Message Throughout Nested Components

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Preprocess Nulls in Your Recordset

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Toggle Min/Max Buttons at Run Time

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Use Bitwise Comparison in SQL Server Queries

The newsgroups offer a lot of discussion about bitwise comparison in SQL statements. VB supports true bitwise arithmetic with And, but SQL supports only a logical AND and returns only

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Convert Values for Collection

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Winning: It’s All About Distribution, Baby!

Stewart Alsop gave an offbeat keynote at the BREW 2002 Developers Conference in early June. A onetime editor-in-chief of PC industry newspaper InfoWorld, an entrepreneur, and a longtime PC industry

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Comparing Computer Information with WMI, Part II

n part one of Comparing Computer Information, I covered some of WMI’s low-hanging fruit (meaning, information that is relatively easy to retrieve). However, there are other, rather interesting pieces of

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Avoid Database Deadlocks with Planning

esolving deadlocks is one of the more elusive solutions in database application development. Deadlocks are the dark side of concurrency, that is, they occur when some combination of locking, coding,