Visual Basic Tips: Accessing Text and Images from the Clipboard

  
Visual Basic provides built-in objects that allow programmers to access the contents of the clipboard easily. Data format from the clipboard can be text, images, rich text, file lists, etc. But for now, I'll try showing how to access clipboard data in the form of text and images.

Visual Basic Tips: Storing and Retrieving Application Settings in the Windows Registry

   
Each application / program has settings or configurations related to the application itself, such as password, the size of the form, and others. These settings must be stored into a storage to be taken back. Usually the application settings are stored in three places, namely on a file with .ini extension which is located in the same folder with program files, the program's database, or it can also be stored in the registry of Windows. This time, we will discuss how to store and retrieve settings into/from the Windows registry.