I’ve been working on a few applications were I’ve been using TinyURL a lot. So, I thought I’d create a library for .NET that contains functions for the most popular URL Shorten-er sites.

Function TinyURL
Function TimesURL
Function DoiopURL
Function MemURL
Function DwarfURL
Function SnipURL
Function ShorlURL
Function LoajURL
Function BitlyURL
Function IsGdURL
Function SixURL
Function TightURL
Function UrlXURL
Function YepItURL

Total there are 14 function that all server the same purpose. It’s really a personal preference as to what service you want to use. Each function accepts 1 overload and returns a single String.

Example: 

dim sTest As String = TimesURL(sURL)

The library will be available soon. Any interest in this or ideas please leave a comment.

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I’ve recieved tons of emails wanting to know when an update to uStreamer will be available. Soon! I’ve been working personal things the last 2 weeks but I did not forget about uStreamer! The next version to come will support custom skins, Twitter integration(and maybe Ping.FM), Radio Mode and a few other nice features. So stay tuned and check back around this time next week. 

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Alot of people are wanting to embed flash object,movies or video streams into thier applications these days. I’m going to show some examples and tips & tricks of using the Shockwave Flash object and namespace. VB.NET and the Shockwave object can be very powerful. I’ve used it in several applications including my ‘uStreamer” viewer application.

First things first. Right click on your toolbox and click “Choose Items”. Scroll down and choose the Shockwave Flash Player Object. From your toolbox add a Shockwave Flash control to your form.

To load a movie use the following code. You can specify a url or path using the ‘LoadMovie’ modifer. The first variable, 0, specifies the layer. The layer is not that important to us in the sense of coding with the control. Use the layer ‘0′.

AxShockwaveFlash1.LoadMovie(0, "yourmovie.swf")

The ‘AllowFullScreen’ modifier comes in handy when dealing with movies that try to take over and go fullscreen. You can choose from boolean True/Flase.

AxShockwaveFlash1.AllowFullScreen = True

The ‘StopPlay’ modifier is used to stop the current play state. This is not the same as the ‘Stop’ modifier. Using ‘Stop’ will cause the control to stop it’s current process. Using ‘StopPlay’ will stop the current movie as the current frame.

AxShockwaveFlash1.StopPlay()

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While coding up an application I’ve been working on I thought about incorporating MySQL to track usage, users and registrations. However, I realized I didn’t know the first thing about MySQL. Of course I use Wordpress, but thats just upload, click, install! So here I am with a complete clientside registration, user and tracking system and no idea how to send it to my MySQL database! So anyway, I’ve decided to brush up on MySQL and using it with .NET. I plan on releasing a few tutorials to simplify the use and help the beginners out there.

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