When discussing VB6, we should look at the reality of the situation and not on preconceived opinions. New source code projects are made daily in Visual Basic 6.0. The paper proposes the reintroduction of Visual Basic 6.0 on the market, in parallel with Visual Studio line.

VB8

VB9

VB6

VB7.x

ASP.NET PDF Viewer User Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed on Client or Server

19 Sep 2013 by Ron Schuler

ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed

An introduction to #SNMP, an Open Source SNMP implementation

9 Jun 2013 by Lex Li

This article introduces #SNMP and how to use it to accomplish SNMP operations such as managing SNMP enabled devices.

Secret Key Encryption Demo

6 Jun 2013 by Fernando E. Braz

This is an alternative for "Secret Key Encryption Demo"

Assembly Manipulation and C# / VB.NET Code Injection

26 Apr 2013 by Sebastien Lebreton

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Creating a Glass Button using GDI+

26 Mar 2013 by Lukasz Swiatkowski

How to create an animating glass button using only GDI+ (and not using WPF)

TexasQuest v.2.0

22 Mar 2013 by Terence Wallace

TexasQuest is a 2D side scroller platform game similiar to Super Mario

Delegates in VB.NET

28 Dec 2012 by sbrakl

Explain the basic of Delegate in VB.NET

VB8

VB9

VB7.x

Generate .chm based documentation of your project using SandCastle tool

12 Dec 2012 by Vijay Tanwar

.Chm based documentation generator for .net projects

RefEdit Emulation for .NET

27 Oct 2012 by pablleaf

A simple implementation of a ref edit control for .NET

Send Lotus Notes Email Using C#

22 Aug 2012 by kheaton1111

How to send email to Lotus Notes from C#.

How to Generate (and Validate) CD-Keys for your Software

6 Aug 2012 by dawmail333

An example of how to implement and validate non-personal CD-Keys (ideal for distribution on the back of CD cases)

SharpZipLib or DotNetZip... Which Should You Use?

5 Aug 2012 by pdoxtader

A comparison of these two free zip libraries, complete with a multi-threaded VB.NET class wrapper for each

Working with Project Template and Wizard Extension

29 May 2012 by Joshi, Rushikesh

Create a customized project template, and let your team use it for repaid development.

VB 9.0, C# 3.0 API Viewer

24 May 2012 by rspercy65

This is a remake of Pramod Kumar Sing's 2002 API Viewer.

Creating Custom Controls: Casino Royale

21 May 2012 by Nick Rioux

Learn to create your own casino-themed controls from scratch.

WPF Language Translator

4 Jan 2012 by Meshack Musundi

A WPF application that translates text using the Bing Translation API.

VB9

WPF

Dev

ASM.Net - x86 Emulation

26 Dec 2011 by Drag0nHunter

ASM.Net a assembly x86 emulator which emulates the language the managed way

Personal Phone Numbers Rolodex, Using WinForms

13 Oct 2011 by rspercy65

This app stores First Name, Last Name, and Phone Numbers in rolodex style. This is the WinForms version of Steve Krile's Ajax Slider using SSDiver2112's CButton and gTrackBar controls.

The VeryRichOutput Control

1 Aug 2011 by Gregory Gadow

Subclass the WebBrowser control to harness the power of HTML and CSS in your output displays.

Signum Framework Principles

25 Jul 2011 by Olmo del Corral

Explains the philosophy behind Signum Framework, an ORM with a full LINQ Provider that encourages an entities-first approach.

Easily Create Your Own Parser

9 Jul 2011 by icemanind

Create a hand made parser in VB.NET or C# easily and fast

CuttingEdge.Conditions

23 Jun 2011 by The .NET Junkie

A pre- and postcondition validation framework based on .NET 3.5 extension methods

A Query Builder Class For Visual Basic 2005 Hand Coders

12 May 2011 by Elizalde G. Baguinon

Most programmers prefer hand-coding database queries. This is a class that automates query building, while the code is as readable as the program logic.

Find an Element in a SQL Server Database

2 May 2011 by Roberto Cervantes Rivero

If you need to find a word in all tables and views in a SQL Server database, this is the easy solution.

Mail Enable with Exchange 2007 using LDAP

24 Apr 2011 by LiQuick

How to mail enable AD accounts using LDAP and Exchange 2007.

A Full Yahoo! Weather App, Yes Another One

16 Apr 2011 by rspercy65

Uses Farhad Siasar's YahooWeathertlb library with a few added functions

Custom Formatting in .NET - Enhancing String.Format to all new levels!

1 Dec 2010 by Scott Rippey

A string template method that allows you to fill a string with data. Easy to use, fast, extensible, and extremely powerful! Uses Reflection, Conditional Formatting, iterating through Arrays, and more!

Professional System Library: Introduction

22 Nov 2010 by Vitaly Tomilov

A simplified and unified way for accessing most frequently used information about Process, System, and Environment.

INI Reader / Writer Class for C#, VB.NET, and VBScript

15 Nov 2010 by Ludvik Jerabek

Read and write to INI files in VB.NET and VBScript

Bar chart in DataGridView

24 Aug 2010 by Santiago Santos Cortizo

How to show a bar chart in a DataGridView

ArrayList to File...

18 Aug 2010 by Koshy Panicker John

Demonstrates a very simple way to create and save Multi-Dimensional (Virtual) ArrayLists to text file

File Association in VB.NET

11 Aug 2010 by Nick Rioux

Easily associate your programs with file types (.jpg, .html, .mp3) with just 2 lines of Visual Basic code

Declarations Generator

29 Jun 2010 by Yasser Daheek

A tool which helps in generating codes for events/properties, so that users of your classes can use events/properties of embedded classes

MRU Menu Class Revisited

19 Jun 2010 by chad_ross

Class for automating the handling of Most Recently Used files in a MenuStrip.

Database Helper v 2.0.0

8 Jun 2010 by hdv212

An open source code generation utility with some useful features to generate procedures,class for tables and .net code for procedures automatically.

Create a System Tray Application in VB.NET

4 May 2010 by Gregory Gadow

Write an application that launches in the notification area.

.NET Mass Downloader - Download the .NET Framework Source Code

26 Apr 2010 by Izzet Kerem Kusmezer

With this tool you can download whole .NET Framework source code at once, and enjoy offline browsing. With it, you can have whole the source code without any Visual Studio product installed

XML Literals

12 Apr 2010 by jpaulino

XML Literals allow you to use XML syntax in your code. It’s easy to work with XML files this way, since you have that Tags in the code, but it’s also quicker to access information rather than the traditional methods.

AsyncWorker - A Typesafe BackgroundWorker (and about Threading in General)

11 Apr 2010 by Mr.PoorEnglish

Generic methods enable typesafe Threading

Waiting for Parallel Execution using delegate.BeginInvoke/.EndInvoke

7 Apr 2010 by Mr.PoorEnglish

Waiting for parallel execution needs no stuff like Callbacks or WaitHandles

How to Program for Windows Registry

16 Mar 2010 by Mohd Arshad Malik

This article will guide you how to create/retrieve/delete key entries in Windows Registry.

A Guide to using MSChart for .NET

16 Mar 2010 by Wayne Gaylard

A guide to using Microsoft's MSChart

VB9

.NET

Dev

Context Sensitive History. Part 2 of 2

13 Mar 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat; allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.

Fully customizable Menu-, Tool-, ContextMenu-, and Status strips

3 Mar 2010 by NickThissen

Change the colors used to render Menu-, Tool,- ContextMenu-, and Status strip controls during design-time.

Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2

24 Feb 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat. Allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.

Move a Form whose Border Isn't Visible

22 Feb 2010 by Damon88

A class which enables the user to Drag the form by clicking Form's Surface

SnapWindows - StickyWindows reloaded

15 Feb 2010 by Mr.PoorEnglish

A new approach to 2D - geometric computation replaces Point, Size, and Rectangle.

Generic grid search and data paging

25 Jan 2010 by KevGUID

Generic grid search and data paging explained.

Customisation with VB - Changing Logon Backgrounds in Windows 7

24 Jan 2010 by Saul Johnson

Using VB to change Windows 7 logon backgrounds

Desktop Alarm Clock

23 Jan 2010 by Arman Ghazanchyan

The Desktop Alarm Clock is a very useful application that can perform several tasks.

Advanced Bookmark Control

31 Dec 2009 by VisualBas08

Make Bookmarks (or Favorites) for your web browser

Customize Listing and Paging in your ASP.NET Page

24 Dec 2009 by Johnson.Sebastian/3537719

A simple way to show a listing page with paging, without using any data controls like Repeater or DataGrid.

Reorderable ListView

14 Dec 2009 by konikula

Inherited ListView which enables user to order multiple items by mouse, and automatically scrolls if necessary

Program Update DLL

4 Dec 2009 by Twaitsey

A DLL that provides support to update your application.

ZipTrack

2 Dec 2009 by Terence Wallace

A comprehensive way to manage all of your downloaded zip files.

Color List Box

2 Dec 2009 by Mehdi Ghiasi

A list box with color name and previews

Easy asynchronous operations with AsyncVar

1 Dec 2009 by Adam Maras

A simple class to asynchronously retrieve a value and hold it until needed.

Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 3

21 Nov 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

Introducing the Calcium SDK. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.

Token Replacement in Office Documents

12 Nov 2009 by Rahul Singla

A new productive way of producing Office documents with dynamic content substitution.

Generic Record Selector With Filter 2

10 Nov 2009 by system-zone.co.uk

An update to my original generic record selector.

Generic Record Selector With Filter

10 Nov 2009 by system-zone.co.uk

A Generic Record Selector Windows Form with Data Filter

Image Transition in VB.NET Windows Forms

8 Nov 2009 by a_pess

Image transition and visual effects in VB.NET using GDI+.

Project Metadata Generation using T4

7 Nov 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

Generate project metadata with T4 and unburden yourself from string literals in XAML binding expressions and INotifyPropertyChanged event arguments.

Silverlight/WCF example using polling duplex with threaded multicast commands

4 Nov 2009 by Fasttimes

Send multicast commands to clients even when some clients are disconnected, and avoid blocking by using threads to send commands.

ProgressBar with Percentage

3 Nov 2009 by Jeroen De Dauw

Component that extends the native .NET progress bar with percentage properties and the ability to display it in the progress bar.

Simplify Code Using NDepend

3 Nov 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Using this article you will get the basic idea of how you could use NDepend to control/analyze your application. It allows to apply design rules and refactor code.

Basics of Bing Search API using .NET

31 Oct 2009 by Abhishek Sur

This article will enable you to add custom search rules to your application using Bing Search API with much more

Validating data with Flat File Checker

30 Oct 2009 by byapparov

An article on data validation with a flat file schema generated in Flat File Checker.

Running the Microsoft AppLocale Utility in an Automated Batch Script

30 Oct 2009 by Austin Rappa

Getting AppLocale to run in a batch script

MultisplitContainer - A FlowlayoutPanel Providing Sizeable Contents

29 Oct 2009 by Mr.PoorEnglish

A FlowlayoutPanel providing sizeable contents

FilterBuilder

27 Oct 2009 by Anthony Daly

FilterBuilder is a simple utility allowing you to easily create dialog filters

Table-Value Parameters in SQL Server 2008 - VB.NET

9 Oct 2009 by Andy_L_J

Using Table-Value Parameters to perform Inserts in SQL Server 2008 from VB.NET.

Silverlight 3: Slideshow

6 Oct 2009 by CS Rocks

This is a slideshow that works in a Silverlight 3 UserControl.

Get all data WMI has to offer

5 Oct 2009 by Jesse Fatherree

This simple function will programatically enumerate all properties and values in any WMI class.

Access Control Panel Applications With Just 2 Clicks

5 Oct 2009 by Euhemerus, rspercy65

A solution to extensive mouse clicking

TB-Stickfigure

2 Oct 2009 by Nasenbaaer

Combine graphic objects to create own scenes

Reading and Rendering - PGM and PBM images

27 Sep 2009 by Saul Johnson

An article on processing and rendering P1 and P2 bitmap images.

Palettes - You've Gotta Love Them!

27 Sep 2009 by Saul Johnson

Creating our own palette viewer and picker UserControl

A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2009 by jebarson

New features of Visual Studio 2010 discussed

Silverlight 3: Displaying SQL Server Data

17 Sep 2009 by CS Rocks

This article demonstrates how to display SQL Server data in a Silverlight DataGrid.

Automatically documenting web site projects created in VB with Sandcastle

9 Sep 2009 by bgs264

Build the CHM file automatically when building a "web site project" created with VB.NET - How I combined several steps into a single process.

Generic Background Worker

8 Sep 2009 by DaveyM69

No more unboxing/casting! Use generic type parameters with this background worker. Source code for C# and VB.NET.

How to build, sign, and deploy a ClickOnce application to be delivered over the internet without using the IDE

1 Sep 2009 by Fasttimes

How to publish a ClickOnce application without using the Visual Studio IDE, with a complete working example.

Quickly Insert Rows Using Your Gridview With No Control Naming

30 Aug 2009 by Prefict

If you hate naming controls in the footer row of your gridview to do an insert, this article is for you.

The Amazingly Forgotten 2-Way .NET Rijndael CryptoStream

29 Aug 2009 by _Khallaf

How To Do Precise 2-Way Rijndael CryptoStream Communication

WPF Drag & Drop Behaviour

26 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

WPF drag and drop behaviour

How to insert hidden input HTML tags into an ASP.NET page so that the ID or name attributes are not rewritten

24 Aug 2009 by TexasMensch

How to insert hidden input HTML tags into an ASP.NET page so that the ID or name attributes are not rewritten.

Quick and Simple WPF Month-view Calendar - Updated

21 Aug 2009 by kirkaiya

A very simple, XAML-based month-view calendar that shows appointments, exposes events, and allows dragging appointments in the current month.

A TCP/IP Chat Program

20 Aug 2009 by Andrew Courtice

A TCP/IP chat program coded in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

Text Log Viewer

19 Aug 2009 by özk@n

Text Log Viewer