Austin123

Hello,

I just started working with VB.net after downloading the Visual Studio Express package. I've spent the day tinkering with it and I have to say - It's been a long time since I used VB... and it seems to be completely different than Vbscript (which is the language of choice the last couple of years).

What I've been wanting to do is create a DeskShade-sque (http://www.macrabbit.com/deskshade/) like program for Windows:

It basically organizes your wallpapers or pics and lets you add more and/or group them. It applies them or lets you hue/shift them, it shows a little icon in the menubar with the desktop you're currently using. It has pretty nice effects (fades, rotate while changing desktop, etc) and features(hotkeys, drag and drop, etc).

I've been able to do it with VBscript but the results were less than consumer-friendly, hence the switch over to a language that offers a little more in the way of building an user interface.

Now to the dilemma: I've gotten all the images created for the program and the layout of the program is complete, the problem is I haven't had much luck populating a ListView with the jpegs of a folder; actually, I've had even less luck with parsing the images into an imagelist...and now I'm at a complete loss.

In Vbscript it was as simple as using a GetFiles() method and saving each image into an array but with VB.net...

I know there are some genius programmers here and would really appreciate if someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

Thankyou and I apologize for the length of this comment.