Here’s a quick function to show the use of System.Diagnostic.Process which will allow you to start another application using VB.NET. The example below is used to call svnadmin to create a new repository ( Subversion ) by grabbing the repository name. The function also checks to see whether the directory exist on the file system [...]

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A simple VB.NET page that takes a ID variable and return the result as XML page.

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Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
 
Partial Class writeXML
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
 
 
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
GetXML(Request.QueryString("pid"))
End Sub
 
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Here’s a quick function to resize image using VB.NET

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Sub ResizeImage(ByVal dir As String, ByVal fileName As String, ByVal percentResize As Double)
‘following code resizes picture to fit
 
Dim bm As New Bitmap("C:\" & dir & "\" & fileName)
 
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Here is a simple VB.NET that would allow you to post a file stream from Flex. The class below saves the file into a location on your server. To use it you can simply use HTTP POST and pass in the directory save location using the query string dir. I used a catch try [...]

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There are times when you will need to write something to the screen to debug your VB.NET code and find it impossible as there are certain things that doesn’t really display a page. A web service don’t normally show a web page after it’s been called and it’s such a pain to debug errors if [...]

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