Software

Call it yet another Microsoft’s blunder but you still can’t forget when you try to load a VB project and it says something “Can’t load MSCOMCTL.OCX” and replaces all your fancy controls with mere picture boxes!

If you are like me you would be maintaining backups of things ranging from your favorite links to ICQ logs on writable CDs. But there is a snag. There would be lots of files on your disk that has names more then 60 characters - like the .

It’s not unusual to see “Missing References” when you open the VB project and then take the pain of correcting them by hand. If it has became your daily routine and you are really tired of that, here’s the magic VB Add-In that will save you from that!

One of the most wanted feature from users point of view in MS SQL Server is capability to generate INSERT scripts for MS SQL Server data. But call it Microsoft’s ignorance, this feature not supplied since quite long.

If you have Windows network with NT Server in your organization, you have now ability to send messages to users that will popup on their screens all of the sudden.

This application scans the given folder and sub folders for VBP files, analyses which VBP file references which ones and generates a Tree view showing this relationships. What’s more, it stores this analysis results in Access database so that you can run your own query or open it at later time.

This is a little program to search for particular words in files in particular folder. Windows Find feature does search for a particular string in files but you can’t search for Word1 AND Word2 AND Word3.

Visual Music lets you play 128 musical instruments on your PC including Flute, Bagpiper and even whistle! You can even record what you are playing, edit it and save it in a file.

Planet Source Code is one of the huge resources of VB code. Say you want to download all of it’s listing and make a CD that might serve as 1000s of VB code snippets.

Concept of trojan horses is not new. Programs like Back Orifice 2000 silently stays in background in your PC, acts as TCP/IP server and allows somebody to connect it through Internet and execute commands sent by them.