Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys
DaleI’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro ' returns TRUE if Acrobat…
VS2010 & .Net 2 Framework Selection
.Net 2 is not the default framework option … No, you get .Net 4. To change it, you select Project / <your project name> Properties / Compile / Advanced Compile…
Saturday Link Roundup: Balloon Tips Edition
Balloon Tips from the System Tray (SysTray) (note to self, must add a NotifyIcon to get this to work) NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip Method Minimizing to the SysTray Minimizing and Restoring from the…
Using Visual Basic to read though a set of registry keys.
The problem we have with a corporate deployment of Acrobat Reader, was that we need to uninstall various older versions of Acrobat Reader. Normally to do this, you need to…
Code to launch an Internet Explorer window from VBscript.
set IE = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") dim ObjTitle IE.Navigate("about:blank") IE.Document.Title = "Software Update" IE.FullScreen = 1 IE.Left = 0 IE.Top = 0 IE.MenuBar = 0 IE.Toolbar = 0 IE.StatusBar = 0 IE.Width …
My Corporate DNS Server was lying to me, often.
I was trying to copy some files to a group to a computers. What I’d do is check if the computer is alive first, by doing a network ping. If…
It’s fairly simple, a bug
is a fault in software, or hardware for that matter, which breaks something. For example, if you make software which links my Microsoft Calendar to my Google Calendar, and your…
“A referral was returned from the server”
As I finish up version 1 of InstallRunner, I went to set the UAC setting for “Require Administrator Privileges”. I did that, and got this error: Doing some research*, the…
Useful programming how-tos I’ve stumbled across.
Event handling in VB.Net Getting the item under mouse cursor in a Listview control Add ListView column and insert ListView rows The Java2s site doesn’t look like much, but it’s…
Programs which lie about successfully installing.
When you install a program, particularly via an install script (VBscript, PowerShell etc.), it’s always good practice to check the Exit Code the program returns. Just in case the program…