Archived Projects
These are projects that are generally older (as in pre- or early college) and I don't want to put forth as flagship demonstrations of my programming talent. Nevertheless, I like to keep them available to view. If nothing else, they provide me with a bit of nostalgia from my early programming days!
Visual Basic .NET
IP Info (Source + exe)
IP Info (exe only)
One of my quick side projects. This program will quickly and conveniently display the local computer's IP address, subnet mask and default gateway(s). All of this is done on startup. The key with this program is the method in which the information is gathered. It crawls through the Window's registry in order to obtain the right information. It was fun to do and gives some insight into registry programming and utilization
(Note: this may not work on systems with certain security programs active, as they sometimes read registry activity as a threat. I assure you there is no threatening activity being performed, but it is up to you how you choose to handle this)
iTunes Mini-Controller (exe only)
Another one of my "just-to-see-if-I-can" side projects; this program is a simple, clean mini-controller for iTunes. It will allow all basic functionality including stop, start, pause, skip, song title, and a progress bar which can be dragged to track through a song. The nice thing about it is that you won't have the whole iTunes window taking up space on your desktop. One thing to note is that an existing installation of iTunes is required and if iTunes is not open, this program will open it. You can just minimize iTunes to get it out of the way.
This program was put into use at my last job. I removed certain proprietary information, but otherwise it functions identically. It simply sets the screensaver timeout to a "secure" or "presentation" time. This is useful to force a timeout and assure more secure systems (specifically systems which require a password to get out of the screensaver) while still being able to set a longer, temporary timeout for presentations.
This program only opens as a Windows System Tray icon, and one can switch modes or exit by right-clicking on the icon.
The main coding elements of this application are the use of some Windows API programming, exception handling and the utilization of a System Tray icon rather than a standard window.
ScreenShotz (Source + exe)
ScreenShotz (exe only)
It's still a work in progress, and has a couple minor bugs, but nothing major.
Some of the key features are thumbnail images of the last screenshot and a save folder browser dialog.