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Applications
 Associate an extension With the app
 Create a shortcut To your app In any folder
 Create desktop shortcut
 Dialog - color - using API
 Dialog - file - using API
 Dialog - folder - using APi
 Dialog - font - using API
  Open Help file
  Put app icon In system tray
  Put app In Explorer context menu
  Put app In SendTo menu
 Start New application And wait For it To finish
 Startup With Windows (use wshom)
 Test If application Is running within IDE
Arrays
 Cycle through an Array
 Randomly shuffle an Array
 Remove element from Array by content
 Remove element from Array by position
 Search an Array
Clipboard
 Copy image To clipboard
 Copy text To clipboard
Controls
 All - automatically highlight content On focus
 All - capture any key
 All - force lower Case As keys are entered
 ComboBox - create MRU For dropdown list
 Imagelist - add images at run time
 Richtextbox - find And replace
 Richtextbox - first visible line / position of 1st Char On the line
 Richtextbox - merge contents of two richtextboxes
 Richtextbox - prevent flicker of richtextbox during reposition
 Richtextbox - word wrap
 Toolbar - responding To button selection
 TreeView - traverse the tree
Date - Time
 Time - elapsed time between 2 dates
 Timer - milliseconds between 2 events
Files Binary
  Read / Write Data To a specific location within the file
  Read / Write entire file at once
 View In Hex Format
Files Text
  Read text file all at one time
  Read text file one line at a time
 View text file content
Files
 Create full pathname
 Extract file name from full path
 File exists
 File properties (size / Date / attributes)
Folders
 Delete a folder And its subfolders
 Folder exists
  Get list of drive letters
  Get Type of drive
  Open DOS window at folder
  Open Window at folder
  Open Windows Explorer at folder
Forms
 Center a form
 Keep form On top
  Set min / max size of form
 Splitter, horizontal (form - based)
 Splitter, horizontal (splitter bar)
Free Controls And Tools 
 Free programming tools
Graphics
 Convert between Long , RGB, VB, And Web colors
  Get JPG / GIF / BMP / PNG image size
  Get screen resolution
 Gradient - apply To a picturebox, 2 colors, 4 directions
 Gradient - apply To form, 2 colors, 4 directions
 Gradient - full spectrum
 Overlay an image
  Read / Write / display / convert GIF / JPG / BMP
 Resize an image, keeping aspect ratio
 Screen capture
  Set wallpaper
Internet
 Check For Internet connection
 Create URL shortcut
 Create web page (HTML) from code
 Download file from the web using API
 Download web page (capture As String )
  Get remote file information - size, Date
  Open a web page In Default browser
 Send email using Default app
 Upload file (Freeware EZ - FTP)
 Upload file (Internet Transfer Control)
Math
 Random Integer within range
 Round To 2 decimals
 Round To n decimals
Multimedia
 Play CD (MM control)
 Play sound (API only)
 Play sound (MM control)
 Play video (MM control)
 Record sound (MM control)
Navigation
 List files And folders - API (pattern)
 List files And folders - Dir$ (pattern)
 List files And folders - FSO
 List files And folders - SysFileControls
Printing
 Color printing
  Print images, positioned And scaled
  Print preview
Registry
 Clear application settings from registry
 Edit registry key
 Use registry To save program settings
Security
 Checksum
 Encrypt a file (uses password)
 Encrypt a String (uses password)
Sort
 QuickSort
Strings
 Convert Byte Array To String
 Find text before / between / after two target strings
 Find / replace
 Split String into Array
System
  Get computer name
  Get name of special folders
  Get user name
  Get Windows And System directories
  Get Windows version
 Reboot, restart Or logoff system
 Reboot, restart Or logoff system (XP only)