Library tutorials & articles tagged with vb.net
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Introduction to Designers
by Tim Dawson
Designers are essential in creating professional controls with polished design time behaviour. This article serves as an introduction to writing your own.
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Writing Plugin-Based Applications
by Tim Dawson
Plugins are a great way to make your application extensible. They are easy to implement with the .NET framework, and this article shows how.
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Windows Form Designer generated code
by Palo Mraz
Taking a closer look at the code generated by the Windows Forms Designer and understanding some of the important implications.
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The Quick & Dirty .NET Guide to C#/VB OOP
by Dimitrios Markatos
Although this article won't be an exhaustive OOP treatise, its objective nevertheless is to present in a quick and dirty manner C#/VB Object-Oriented Programming. Moreover, even though this article may be slightly geared more towards C#, all important VB assessments or similarities are addressed and demonstrated. By the way, keep in mind C# is very case sensitive. Incidentally, don't be put off at the length of this article, a lot of it is simply repeated code examples for both languages.
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The ColorPicker WinForms Control
by Palo Mraz
Developing a simple ColorPicker WinForms control by implementing the IWindowsFormsEditorService interface and leveraging the WinForms design-time infrastructure.
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An Introduction to VB.NET and Database Programming
by Chas Profitt
I am a beginner. I wanted to share some experiences with other beginners. The next few articles that come from my keyboard will be about my experience with teaching myself to develop applications in VB.NET.
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.NET Threading Part I
by Randy Charles Morin
The first in a two part series, introducing how to create and manipulate threads with the .NET framework, including creating a thread, thread pools, syncronization, race conditions and timers.
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Drag and Drop in Windows Forms - A Primer
by Brian O'Connell
Examples of how to implement Drag & Drop in Windows Forms including TextBox, TreeView and Dragging a control around a form.
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XML transformations in .NET - Part I
by JLogic
An introduction to using XSL transformations on XML documents, and how to perform these in VB .NET using the XslTransform class.
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Implementing The Google Web Service In VB.NET
by Jayesh Jain
Learn how to implement the new Google Web Service and take advantage of its powerful searching features in your VB.NET program.
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Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET
by Jayesh Jain
In this article we're going to learn how to implement the FileSystemWatcher class using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
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Creating a Windows Service in VB.NET
by Jayesh Jain
Learn how to do the previously impossible - build a Windows Service with the help of Visual Basic.NET
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Windows Forms and Controls
by Brian O'Connell
One of the first things to learn in VB.net how to use forms, set it's properties and then do the same with controls AND then learn how to do it programatically. Well this article describes all of this in as simple a way possible and demonstrates how you can create the same result using Notepad and the VB.Net compiler.
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Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET
by G.Gnana Arun Ganesh
Using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications. Arun Ganesh introduces the new features of VB.net for VB programmers.
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COM Interoperability in .NET Part 1
by G.Gnana Arun Ganesh
In the first part of this series, Arun Ganesh introduces interoperability between the new .NET technologies, and how to use old Win32 API calls in your .NET applications.
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Planning Form Layout in VB.NET
by Benny K. Mathew
Benny Mathew demonstrates some new features in VB.net, designing fairly complicated forms, which can resize, using anchors, docks and panels with a dash of code.
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Why are we criticizing VB.NET?
by David R. K. DeLoveh
David DeLoveh takes a look at the pros and cons of VB.NET
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New Object-Oriented Capabilities in VB.NET
by Wrox Press
A sample chapter from the Wrox book, VB.NET Programming.
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Introducing Windows Forms
by Microsoft
Learn about the new forms package, allowing developers to take full advantage of the rich user interface features available in Windows