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17 Apr 2013   Updated: 25 Sep 2013   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 7.07
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Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz, who shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.
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Visual Basic
16 Jan 2013   Updated: 19 Jan 2013   Rating: 4.04/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.21
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Convert VB.NET 2003 Windows Forms Designer section of Windows Form Public Class files to Partial Class files.

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Win32
28 Jul 2013   Updated: 28 Jul 2013   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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How to use .NET Framework to determine the drive letter of the CD/DVD (optical) drive.
24 Sep 2013   Updated: 24 Sep 2013   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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PartnerTech provides a 32-bit DLL and a 64-bit DLL for communicating with the CD-7220 Series Customer Display in true USB mode. This tip demonstrates a .NET class that can be used to provide an easy way to access the PartnerTech-provided 32-bit DLL.
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Windows
24 Feb 2013   Updated: 20 Sep 2019   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 27   Popularity: 6.96
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Step-by-step instructions to create and install a Certificate Authority certificate and a signing certificate as well as a BAT file to sign a program
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C
1 Sep 2014   Updated: 27 Oct 2014   Rating: 4.75/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 4.01
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Describes an algorithm to ignore spurious ultrasonic sensor readings.
Visual Basic
29 Jul 2014   Updated: 26 Jul 2016   Rating: 4.64/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.19
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Provides a sample program using Google APIs for .NET V3 with YouTube
29 Mar 2013   Updated: 13 Nov 2013   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 5.16
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The COM Interop Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) is a "Black Box" that creates references to memory that need to be released before the called program will end.
14 Jun 2013   Updated: 14 Jun 2013   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Source code to demonstrate the creation of a new task in Windows Task Scheduler.
11 Aug 2015   Updated: 11 Aug 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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This sample program demonstrates how to use Google Calendar API v3 to delete Google Calendar events, insert Google Calendar events and update Google calendar events based on a .CSV file exported from Calendar Creator.
5 Sep 2013   Updated: 5 Sep 2013   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Function returns exe name and command line for the provided filename and extension.
4 Apr 2023   Updated: 4 Apr 2023   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Demonstrates two functions to retrieve the current Windows System Audio Volume and set Audio Volume.

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I’m retired. When I started my career, programming projects consisted of plugging wires into plug boards to create punch card processing applications to be run on electrical accounting machine like the IBM 402, 407, 085, 088, 514, 519, etc. From there, I moved to writing SPS and Autocoder applications on an IBM 1401 with 4K of memory eventually upgraded to 16K of memory. After many years of migrating my skills to various languages on various hardware platforms, I became an Information Technology Director where I didn’t need to program anymore. So, starting in 1996, I volunteered my time with a local community cable television organization and built some applications to help them run their operations. Originally in Clipper Summer 1987 and later Clipper 5.2, I migrated and enhanced those applications to VB .NET 2003 in 2003. I retired from my full-time job in 2010. Since then, I have continued to support the local community cable tv organization's applications. In 2013, I migrated the VB .NET 2003 Solution to VB .NET 2012 so that it can run on 64-bit computers and interact with Microsoft Office 2010. The upgrade went smoothly. In mid 2013, I developed a VB .NET 2012 application for them to download election results data from the Secretary of State's web site, format the results and send them to a VizRT character generator for on-air display.