Web Link Hits      Write to the registry using WMI My procedures to access the registry with simple WMI referencing. The project is made to enhance the VB registry functions SaveSetting, GetSetting and DeleteSetting while maintaining to a certain extent their simplicity in passing arguments. 526      0x80070005 on Remote WMI/DCOM Calls I'm pulling my hair out and I'm hoping someone could help me out with a bit of a WMI/DCOM error that I'm running into. I have a script that does a number of WMI operations on remote computers and every time that I run it, I'm being given a "0x8007000 400      Remote Registry Access using VB.NET to enumerate Installed Software Applications Having difficulty getting the syntax correct for VB.NET to produce a listing of all software applications on a remote PC listed in the registry installed programs? 569      WMI Security Settings The second, and typically optional, part of WMI monikers is the security settings component. The security settings component has been a source of confusion for many system administrators. This is primarily because of the impersonationLevel setting, w 376      WMI Filters WMI Filters are a way to fine tune the application of GPOs. Evaluated at the time of a Group Policy refresh at the client, a WMI Filter includes one or more WMI Query Language (WQL) queries. If any of these queries return a result (essentially meanin 347      George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ Deployment Controls Books Data Binding Datagrid Docking Keyboard Handling Layout Licensing Menus Mouse Handling from MFC from VB6 Patterns Printing Resources Scrolling Tips Common Dialogs ListBox ComboBox RichTextBox ListV 302      Visual Basic and Visual C# Concepts: Walkthrough: Adding Active Directory Objects The procedures in this topic demonstrate the process of using the DirectoryEntry component to list the users, groups, and services on your local computer. The DirectoryEntry component uses Active Directory technology to do this work. Each entry creat 391      Validating Edit Controls Textbox controls are often used to enter dates, times, currency values or preformatted numeric data such as phone numbers. A control that allows its user to only enter a specific type of data is useful for several reasons: The user may do less typ 408      The Windows Access Control Model Part 2 In this second article we will start programming with security identifiers, access control lists and security descriptors. We will solve trivial problems using the SID, obtain information from an access token, enable a privilege, fill up an access co 419      SetACL: Windows ACL manipulation SetACL: manage permissions (ACLs) on Win32 systems from the command line or your programs/scripts. Supports all options available in Explorer, and more. 426      Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 3) The first two parts of my scripting series discussed Exchange users in almost every possible angle. This third part of the series will go over ways for accessing Exchange objects, such as servers, storage groups and databases. 369      Scheduling tasks with VB.NET as Windows services After the introduction of .NET, writing services using VB.NET has become very simple and easy. But still beginners need a start from somewhere to know how to achieve this. Attached is a sample application which demonstrates this concept. 418      Obtain the Owner of a File on Windows NT/2000 Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 5 & Visual Basic 6 379      Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 2 Exchange Server 2003 provides five new Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers and 15 new WMI classes. As I showed you in "Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 1," January 2004, http://www.winnetmag.com/microsoftexchangeoutlook, InstantDo 341      ListNanny.NET - NDR Parser component for .NET Do you have an email or newsletter list you need to maintain? Are you constantly plagued by bounce-back or NDR emails? You know, those bad emails you get after every mailing that claim an "unknown user" or "unknown mailbox". Well, it's ListNanny.NET 415      Implement POP3 and SMTP in .NET This article shows how to use VB.NET to implement POP3 and SMTP protocol. There is a DLL file included in the source files, this DLL contains two classes to implement POP3 and SMTP and an extra class for e-mail's codec (base 64 only, not included in 388      IIS Status Codes When users try to access content on a server that is running Internet Information Services (IIS) through HTTP or File Transfer Protocol (FTP), IIS returns a numeric code that indicates the status of the request. This status code is recorded in the II 410      How to programmatically get the size of mailboxes in Exchange This article describes how to programmatically retrieve information about the size of mailboxes on a server that is running Microsoft Exchange by using Microsoft Visual C, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, and Microsoft Visual Basic Scrip 407      How To Obtain the Owner of a File on Windows NT Retrieving the owner of a file requires obtaining the security descriptor for the file, then using the security descriptor to get a pointer to the owner's Security Identifier (SID). Finally, you use the owner's SID to obtain the owner and domain name 352      How to get Windows NT DOMAIN\UserName of Exchange mailbox using CDO This article provides CDO (1.2, 1.21) sample code written in Microsoft Visual Basic demonstrating how to obtain the Windows NT Account associated with an Exchange mailbox in the form DOMAIN\UserName. 349      Getting the Size of a Mailbox (WebDAV) There is no mailbox property that contains the total size of the mailbox. However, each folder in a user mailbox has its size stored in the http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/x0e080003 field, which corresponds to the PR_MESSAGE_SIZE MAPI prope 411      Getting Item Property Values (WebDAV) This example shows how you can construct the XML body of a WebDAVPROPFIND Method manually. The request is for the displayname Field for a folder. After the request has been constructed, the code passes the XML string to an XMLHTTP Component Object Mo 364      Getting a List of Folders (WebDAV) This topic demonstrates how to use the SEARCH Method to get a list of folders within a folder using a hierarchical search. For more information about hierarchical searches, see Search Scope. 352      Gathering computer information using WMI After a ton of questions regarding the the DriveInfo examples (Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers and Revenge of DriveInfo) asking how to determine other information such as CPU identification, motherboard serial number and BIOS serial numbers I'm u 458      Finding the Owner of a File Object in C++ The following example uses the GetSecurityInfo and LookupAccountSid functions to find and print the name of the owner of a file. The file exists in the current working directory on the local server. 377      Export to Excel from Datagrid? The best way to export data in a datagrid or dataset from a VB.NET Windows Form application directly into Excel. 392      Configuration Settings File for providing application configuration data .NET gives an easy way to store configuration information in an Application Configuration File. In the simple implementation, you can store information as Key-Value pairs. 358      Find the owner of a file or folder on the network (Windows 2000 Server) using VB.Net and/or API. I am trying to find the owner of a file or folder on our network (Windows 2000 Server) using VB.Net and/or API. so I can search for Folders that don't follow our company's specified folder structure and naming conventions and then send a Net send mes 336      Accessing LDAP User list using VB.NET Compared to VB 6.0, .NET framework has given very easy access to the network solutions like LDAP. I have seen lots of people asking questions on LDAP access using .NET. In this article, I will try to explain how to retrieve list of all LDAP users. 451      A ComboBox in a DataGrid This is a descendant from DataGridColumnStyle and is used to have a ComboBox in a DataGrid column. It is based on an article by Sudhakar Jalli but I found the code not working. I repaired the code and cleaned it up a little. 364      The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET #ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NE 319      SQL Crib Sheet These notes are intended to provide a simplified crib sheet (or reminder) on SQL. It is not a tutorial. A number of examples for common types of tasks are provided - but little or no explanation. 308      WinSock Programming This article is my understanding of how to use the WinSock API. It explains how to create a socket, listen on a socket as a server, connect to a socket as a client, and how to pass information from the client to the server. 369      Beginning Winsock Programming - Simple TCP server In this article I introduce you to WinSock through a simple TCP server, which we shall create step by step. But before we begin, there are a few things that you must do, so that we are truly ready for starting our WinSock program. 391      Mfcsocs.exe sample demonstrates how to communicate in a TCP connection in Visual C++ The MFCSocs sample is a minimal MFC application that demonstrates how to use the CSocket and CAsyncSocket classes to communicate in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. This sample is a dialog-based application. Depending on the selectio 345      Tsearch2 - full text extension for PostgreSQL Tsearch2 - is the full text engine, fully integrated into PostgreSQL RDBMS. 277      Silent install of PostgreSQL on Windows As the PostgreSQL installer for Windows uses Windows Installer (MSI) technology, performing a silent or semi-silent install works the same way as with any MSI installer. It is all done using commandline options to msiexec, which are used to: Speci 323      Migrate your PHP site from MySQL to PostgreSQL -- Part 2 PHP's Postgres result set handlers can do everything their MySQL counterparts can; they're just slightly different. These small differences may require nothing more than a little modification to code, but they might also require some involved program 378      PostgreSQL: Mirroring MySQL's GROUP_CONCAT in PostgreSQL MySQL's GROUP_CONCAT command is a phantastic thing, it can simplify big efforts to a small piece of work that would not even be worth mentioning - if the way that the problem is being solved wouldn't be so nice ;-). 371      Methods for transferring data to Excel from Visual Basic This article discusses numerous methods for transferring data to Microsoft Excel from your Microsoft Visual Basic application. This article also presents the advantages and the disadvantages for each method so that you can choose the solution that wo 328      Find Memory Leaks and Optimize Memory Usage in Programs Written in C#, VB.NET or any other .NET Language .NET Memory Profiler is a powerful tool for finding memory leaks and optimizing the memory usage in programs written in C#, VB.NET or any other .NET Language. 320      Log Parser Resources Extensive list of log parser utilities. 341      Creating More Efficient Microsoft Active Directory-Enabled Applications Summary: This article discusses how to create efficient queries, determine query timing, and track expensive and inefficient searches using Microsoft Active Directory. 293      Active Directory and LDAP LDAP tricks for Active Directory 332      LDAP Search Samples for Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2000-2003 These LDAP search strings are good for Saved Queries in Windows Server 2003 AD Users and Computers, Query-based Distribution Groups and Exchange 2000/2003 Recipient Policies and Address Lists. 405      Active Directory Last Logon Dates VBScript program to output all users in the domain with the date and time each last logged onto the domain. This program can be useful to identify old unused accounts that can be disabled and eventually deleted. 345      Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000 (2) In my previous article I presented a script that iterated through all the OUs to export mail enabled users' mail addresses to a CSV file. Active Directory allows you, instead of going through each and evey the OUs, to perform directory wide searches 317      .NET FTP Client library written in C# Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (95/98), 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), Win2K, WinXP License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Category: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 405      An FTP client library for .NET 2.0 One annoying omission from the 1.x framework for .NET was support for FTP. This could be rectified by various libraries (some free, others commercial) that filled this gap. However, with Visual Studio 2005 and 2.0 of the .NET framework, FTP makes a w 433      Attachment Archiving to a File Server Script The following script builds on the concepts I introduced in my other article but uses them in a slightly different way. This script loops though a folder (or multiple folders) in your mailbox for emails with attachments and then saves the attachment 324      How to use the Rule.dll sample to create an inbox rule in Visual Basic This article describes how to use the Rule.dll sample to add a set of rules to the Inbox of a mailbox. Rules are a powerful technique that can be applied to many mailboxes without the drawbacks associated with server event scripts. 336      Map Files And DLL Rebasing Have you ever noticed that when one of your programs crashes, like when you get a Dr. Watson error, it displays an address where the crash occurred? Did you know that there is a way to locate the place in the code where that error occurred without th 285      A Crash Course In Exporting From A DLL When creating a new DLL, an Import Library (with a ".LIB" extension) is created. This Import Library has to remain consistent with the DLL used to create the library -- at least for the code utilized by the client. Occasionally, you may find yo 313      Calling an Exported Function in an EXE from Within a DLL Environment: VC6, SP4, 2K, SP2 This article explains a better way of calling a function in an EXE file from a dependent DLL of the same EXE. In other words, calling a DLL's function from an EXE is the normal way; this is the reverse of the same. 339      Binary File Reader for ASP Binarysendfile component implements simple file read and access to the binary data read from file through property. It can be used to construct ASP pages that must send pictures or other files not modified to the client. 387

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