Page 5 - 1912

the Visual Basic.Net, Visual C#.Net and Visual C++
languages, an extensive set of built in interactive
components, plus an Integrated Development
Environment with debugger and Microsoft’s
“Intellisource” assistance to make Windows
programming easier than ever. It is designed to run
on the Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 desktops. It can
create many types of applications, including
traditional desktop apps, “Modern/Metro/Universal”
apps, web applications and even apps for Android
and iOS mobile devices.

You can download Visual Studio 2019 Community Picture Renamer Set Up to Perform Renames
Edition at the following hyperlink:
After the user clicks the “Rename Files” button, the
program renames the qualifying image files in the
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ folder using the base name, separator and

successive sequence numbers.

Space here doesn’t allow me to even scratch the
surface of programming in Visual Studio, which uses
the “.Net” framework runtime environment. However,
for those interested, I’ve built PictureRenamer.exe, a
simple bulk picture renaming tool using VB.Net 2019.
I use this tool often to rename a set of images in a
folder to something more meaningful than the “Img-
nnnn.jpg” names that come from my cell-phone
camera.

The picture renamer program lets you select a folder Picture Renamer After Run
of images, set a base name, a starting number, a
step increment, a separator pattern and the number
of digits to use in the sequence number to use for The Picture Renamer program is implemented as a
the resultant file names. As these settings are Windows Desktop application. It has only a single
changed, an example of the resultant file name is screen. The “Browse” button opens a standard
displayed. Windows “Select Folder” dialog that allows the user
to pick the folder whose images are to be renamed.

When the rename settings are suitable, the user
clicks the “Rename Files” button and the program To view or edit the program’s project file and source
sets about renaming the image files in that folder. A code, you must first have installed Visual Studio
file is considered an image file if its suffix is: .jpg, 2019 Community Edition. Double click the
.png, .bmp or .tif. Files with other suffixes are ig- PictureRenamer.vbproj file in the extracted set of
nored. files. From there you’re off and running.

See the following screen shot to get an idea how this
actually looks.

5