This article revolutionizes Shelly device management, providing an updated, efficient, and feature-rich solution for both beginners and advanced users." You will discover new ShellyCom2 features, such as property manipulation using PropertyDescriptor, and a set of valuable helpers and commands.

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Visual Basic

Redesigned German Cards Game "Schafkopf"

16 Feb 2024 by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using my Schafkopf_OOP VB.NET project.

WPF

game

Collapsible-Panels

15 Feb 2024 by CODING_MLD

Expanding and collapsible panels implemented in VB.NET

.NET

Visual-Studio

Design

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 4) - Property-Manipulation with the PropertyDescriptor

16 Jan 2024 by Ralf Meier

.NET

IoT

View UPnP Services and also View UPnP DLNA Services

11 Jan 2024 by Rousset de Pina

An application to view UPnP services and also to view UPnP DLNA services

Dev

UPnP

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 3)

13 Dec 2023 by Ralf Meier

The article walks through ShellySceneComponent and ShellyScenesComponent, which allow users to define scenes with multiple actions assigned to a control or controls for Shelly devices.

WinForms

IoT

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 2)

6 Dec 2023 by Ralf Meier

This article is a continuation of a series on controlling Shelly® devices in a smart home. It introduces a component that works with standard controls without requiring adaptation.

WinForms

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 1)

30 Nov 2023 by Ralf Meier

In this article, I demonstrate how to integrate Shelly® relays into my smart home, controlling the devices through routines in VB.NET.

HTML

.NET4

Wisej: The Easy Button for Enterprise Software

17 Nov 2023 by Jeremy Likness

Wisej is a powerful platform that abstracts away the nuances of client/server interactions while embracing all the web has to offer, including third-party HTML5-based solutions, it is the perfect tool for building enterprise web applications.

Migrate Windows Desktop Applications to the Web with Wisej

17 Nov 2023 by Levie Rufenacht

Wisej brings a familiar desktop development experience to the web without losing any of its benefits.

Javascript

Visual-Studio

Wisej.NET

OpenAI Audio Book Creator

9 Nov 2023 by Igor Krupitsky

This application lets you create an audio book using OpenAI Text to speech

Pick Your Enumerator & Me.Understand Yield and IEnumerable (VB)

2 Nov 2023 by Mike-MadBadger

This is an alternative for "Pick Your Enumerator & Me.Understand Yield and IEnumerable (C#)"

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

12 Oct 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

LogViewer Control for WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia in C# & VB

11 Sep 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET Core LogViewer Control for WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia using the ILogger Framework with Microsoft Logger, Serilog, NLog, and Log4Net in C# & VB on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux

WPF

.NET7

Avalonia

Classification using Logistic Regression in Visual Basic

9 Sep 2023 by chlohee

Machine Learning. What languages come to mind? R? Python? Matlab? Bet you didn't think Visual Basic.

machine-learning

CSV

Office Programming Helper Indent VB Code

4 Sep 2023 by NewPast

Indent code, add line numbers, err handling, add number to words and more, expose a .NET library to Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point macros writers and Access VBA code

VBA

Office

Float Point Numbers as Approximates & Using Errors

19 Aug 2023 by NewPast

Floating point numbers as approximates and understanding error happened when using single and double data types

Complex Math Parser and Evaluator in VB.NET

15 Aug 2023 by Xavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Reduces/evaluates a real/complex math expression

.NET

Parser

mathematics

Searchable PDF App

2 Aug 2023 by Igor Krupitsky

This tool will convert image and PDF files to searchable PDFs.

CSV to SQL Server

11 Jul 2023 by Igor Krupitsky

This application lets you copy tables from folder with CSV files to SQL Server

SQL-Server

Audio Book Creator

23 May 2023 by Igor Krupitsky

This application lets you create an audio book using Eleven Labs API.

The Missing Avalonia Templates for VB

26 Mar 2023 by Graeme_Grant

Add the missing project templates for the App and Control Library projects that were not included

.NET App Settings Demystified (C# & VB)

25 Feb 2023 by Graeme_Grant

Enabling development and production AppSettings support for non-ASP.NET Core apps

Configuration

production

release

Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

9 Jan 2023 by Graeme_Grant

This article comprehensively covers the Microsoft ClickOnce Installer with a bare bones WinForm/WPF C#/VB Silent Updater framework plus covers how to implement, troubleshoot, test locally, to release.

Chat GPT in VB.NET and C#

22 Dec 2022 by Igor Krupitsky

Windows app to talk to Chat GPT

ChatGPT

Phone Chat with Web Sockets

16 Dec 2022 by Igor Krupitsky

Attempt to create a Phone chat application using Web Sockets

Javascript

Deserializing Json Streams using Newtonsoft.Json & System.Text.Json with C# & VB

16 Nov 2022 by Graeme_Grant

How to deserialize very large simple & complex JSON Streams (.NET 6.0 & 7.0)

.NET6

.NET-Core

JSON.NET

EXTENDED Version of Extended Rich Text Box (RichTextBoxEx)

11 Nov 2022 by Robert Gustafson

I've created an enhanced version of the Extended RichTextBox created by Razi Syed.

Migration - Strategy Game

7 Nov 2022 by Terence Wallace

A VB.NET implementation of a city-building game with real-time strategy elements.

game

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

14 Oct 2022 by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

Set Windows Forms Control Properties Safely from ANY Thread

30 Aug 2022 by bobishkindaguy

A class you can add to your project, which allows you to set control properties safely from threads other than the main thread

.NET

Introducing R# Language

3 Aug 2022 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

R# language is a kind of R liked language implements on .NET environment

Chat App with Web Sockets

1 Aug 2022 by Igor Krupitsky

Attempt to create a smallest chat application using Web Sockets

Javascript

A Polynomials Math Parser in VB.NET

4 May 2022 by Xavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Polynomials Math Parser and Evaluator in VB.NET

Extended (Inherited) Versions of List and Combo Box Controls

12 Apr 2022 by Robert Gustafson

Extended versions of ListBox and ComboBox controls which allow image, font, and colors for an individual item--along with multi-row/aligned-tab support for list box--and drop-down-list mouse-events/horizontal-scrollbar and custom drop-down buttons for combo box

drop-down

On How to Mix Two Signals by using Spectral Forecast

20 Mar 2022 by Paul Aurelian Gagniuc

This article shows how to mix two signals into a third, in variable proportions.

Javascript

Java

VB6

Rapid Object Detection in .NET

23 Feb 2022 by Huseyin Atasoy

Rapid object detection without a third party library requirement in .NET

.NET

Windows

Dev

WinForm VB.NET Hosting WPF Ribbon - Part 3 - Now Feat. MVVM Toolkit and More

27 Jan 2022 by Jo_vb.net

My idea was to host a WPF user control with Ribbon within a WinForm VB.NET project and try to use MVVM pattern.

XAML

Ribbon

MVVM

Vuetify Website / WebApp Development using BANanoVuetifyAD3 - An Introduction

5 Dec 2021 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Create Vuetify Material Design based Websites / WebApps using Drag n Drop and B4X

MySqlBackup.NET - MySQL Backup Solution for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

24 Sep 2021 by adriancs

A tool to export and import MySQL database in .NET

CSV Interface - A CSV Parser for VBA. Stable, Efficient, Flexible and Standards-compliant

11 Jul 2021 by W. García

To cover the need to import information from a CSV file directly into RAM, in an efficient, secure and stable way, from VBA, specialized libraries are needed to ensure the ease of use and integrity of the data.

text

Parser

CSV

Table Football (Game Tutorial)

6 Jul 2021 by VisualMonsters

Simple game "table football", you can easily create and play with your friends and family

Vector: A Concept-Driven Approach to SQL UDT

26 May 2021 by Giovanni Bejarasco

A walkthrough in UDT programming with primary focus on database concepts

MIDI Monitor Written in Visual Basic

14 May 2021 by Paul Srmnn

Using VisualBasic Express 2010

Windows

Visual-Studio

Abstracting TCP/IP Communications, and Adding What Should Be the New Basics

24 Mar 2021 by pdoxtader

AbstractTcpLib

Fast Conversions between tightly packed Structures and Arrays

15 Mar 2021 by Visual Herbert

Interpreting tightly packed structures as 1-dimensional arrays and vice-versa.

.NET

Design

Dev

A Spritesheet Library and Editor for Win2D

7 Feb 2021 by g96b10

Win2D provides a neat API interface, but how do you render complex sprites for your game? I provide a library and editor to make this a streamlined process.

.NET

UWP

graphics

Fastest In-Place Stable Sort

30 Jan 2021 by Craig N Brown

A stable version of quicksort

Dev

MS Access Queries to SQL Server Converter

28 Dec 2020 by Igor Krupitsky

Tool to migrate MS Access Queries to SQL Server

Simple WPF Binding in Code-behind for Visual Basic .NET

7 Nov 2020 by Padanian

Updating user interface in WPF with simple one-way binding

XML

.NET

WPF

Global Shortcuts in WinForms and WPF

20 Oct 2020 by Akinmade Bond

Library that allows an app to process hotkeys and perform other keyboard manipulations

Asynchronous Event-driven Controls Update in Winforms

14 Oct 2020 by Padanian

Updating controls with a background worker with event-driven trigger

XML

.NET4

Extended NumericUpDown Control

23 Sep 2020 by Claudio Nicora

An extended NumericUpDown control with better focus and mouse wheel management.

CPPkg: Create Zips of Your Source Code From Visual Studio

9 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Easily create zip packages from source code, suitable for upload on CodeProject

DecisionMatrix

20 Feb 2020 by Terence Wallace

Short economics game to analyze human behavior and approach to simulate NPC decision making

[WPF] Easiest Way to Create an Animated/Smoothed Scroll Bar

4 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

Here's the best, beautiful and easiest way to create an animated and smooth sliding scroll viewer in WPF Platform (Windows Presentation Foundation).

CodeDOM Go Kit: The CodeDOM is Dead, Long Live the CodeDOM

11 Dec 2019 by honey the codewitch

If you use the CodeDOM, here's an indispensable package to make it awesome.

Line of Business Application, the New Way

29 Nov 2019 by Weifen Luo

The new way to develop LOB applications

.NET

WPF

SQL-Server

DBF to SQL Server

20 Nov 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

Application lets you copy tables from folder with DBF files to SQL Server

SQL-Server

Fluid, Multi-column, Vertically Ordered List using CSS

19 Nov 2019 by Richard Atkins

Create a fluid, multi-column, vertically ordered list using nested, floating divs

Reusable Multithreaded TCP/IP Client and Server Classes with Example Project in VB.NET

13 Nov 2019 by pdoxtader

A multithreaded server class that accepts multiple connections from a provided client class. Each client can send and receive files and text (byte data) simultaneously along 250 available channels.

VBA or Complex formulas?

2 Nov 2019 by stc.reseller

How to stay secure by using Excel formulas instead of writing VBA code?

Volume Serial Numbers (like for Windows Partitions) Applied to MS Office Files

28 Oct 2019 by stc.reseller

Helpful tips in labeling Office files or how to make Office file changes statistically visible, in one single step

Multithreading Backup Utility

8 Oct 2019 by Taner Riffat

Multithreading is something we will all have to deal with sooner or later. This relatively simple application shows you how to use two threads to copy files. It is also a very handy Windows backup utility with a mirror feature, a batch mode feature, a log file feature and a help button!

Simple FTP File Application

27 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

This article demonstrates how to send file to server via FTP routine.

.NET4.5

WinForms

Dev

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

WestWorld v5

23 Sep 2019 by Terence Wallace

A continuing series demonstration of Finite State Machines (FSM) where agents inhabit a small town called WestWorld.

JDAC - Data Access and More

30 Jul 2019 by MSBassSinger

JDAC is an excellent data access component instead of Entity Framework with its higher support and maintenance costs.

Web Scraping Library (Fully .NET)

3 Jul 2019 by FrankNight

This is just another web scraper written fully in .NET but finally without the use of mshtml!

Take Photos from a Webcam or IP Camera (SmartPhone using an App) with aforge.net

25 Jun 2019 by evillegas1961

Take photos from a webcam or IP Camera in VB.NET

Android

.NET

Dev

Sound in Games - Acoustical Leaks in Walls

16 Jun 2019 by Kenneth Haugland

Mathematical treatment of acoustic leaks in walls

VS2010

Dev

Complete Sudoku Game for Windows using VB.NET 2013

9 Jun 2019 by Hung, Han

This article is a tutorial on how to code your own Sudoku game using VB.NET

Windows

VS2013

Dev

Hosted WCF Service over HTTPS

27 May 2019 by Alexandros Pappas

Example of a self hosted WCF service over HTTPS with transaction

Rehosting WorkflowDesigner

2 May 2019 by Alexandros Pappas

Rehosting of WorkflowDesigner in WPF and Windows Forms application, and invoking the workflow

LineNumbers for the RichTextBox

13 Apr 2019 by nogChoco

LineNumbers that dock to a RichTextBox or show as an overlay on top of it

2D Polyline Vertex Smoothing

1 Apr 2019 by veen_rp

Smooth a 2D polyline through interpolation (Catmull-Rom) or approximation (Chaikin)

gGlowBox - Create a Glow or Shadow Effect Around a Focused Control (VB.NET)

28 Feb 2019 by SSDiver2112

A custom Panel that creates a glow effect around a child control or a drop shadow when it receives focus

Append Multiple Colored Texts to a RichTextBox using VB.NET

25 Feb 2019 by EAHMK

This is an alternative for "Multiple Colored Texts in RichTextBox using C#"

MySQL Data Importer

20 Feb 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

Tool that will let you import data from SQL Server and Access to MySQL

Multiple File Upload into a Database with Progress Bar and Drag and Drop

20 Feb 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

The ASP.NET pages let you upload, delete and browse files into a database.

Multiple File Upload with Progress Bar and Drag and Drop

20 Feb 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

The ASP.NET pages let you upload, delete and browse files in a folder.

Javascript

ASP.NET

Folder Tree with Multiple File Upload with Progress Bar and Drag and Drop

19 Feb 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

The ASP.NET pages let you upload, delete and browse files in a folder.

Javascript

ASP.NET

Serialize Custom Collections of CollectionBase

31 Jan 2019 by Eric P Schneider

Basic demo on how to serialize and deserialize custom collections

VB6 C# VB Code Converter

24 Jan 2019 by NewPast

Converting codes Focus on upgrading VB6 to VB.Net and converting C# VB.Net, and listing many other helpful converter including php, java & others.

Barcode Scanner

15 Jan 2019 by Igor Krupitsky

This Windows application lets you scan image in a given folder and generate CSV file to show barcodes for each image file.

A Parallel Class Study: Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabilized

3 Dec 2018 by Amir Emamjomeh

A study of .NET Parallel Class in solving a system of linear equations using bi-conjugate gradient stabilized method

XML

.NET

parallel

Computer Controlled Watering System with C# or VB.NET

30 Nov 2018 by Troy Simpson

Setup a simple and cheap computer controlled watering system using VB.NET or C# and a parallel port relay controller

HoopDream

17 Nov 2018 by Terence Wallace

A brief article on how to utilize NBA Stats API in a WinForm application

IDEAL CHALK Mnemonic Acronym and Mnemonic Images for Object Oriented Principles

11 Nov 2018 by ProEnggSoft

IDEAL CHALK mnemonic acronym and mnemonic images for Object Oriented Principles

Decorator Pattern in VB.NET (WinForms)

16 Oct 2018 by Arlo Weston

Using the decorator pattern in WinForms, VB.NET

Windows

WinForms

SOLID

General Purpose Operating Parameters for Console Programs

7 Oct 2018 by David A. Gray

This article demonstrates a class library that supports command line parameters with default values stored in application settings.

How Baseball Led to a Quest for Software Coding Optimization

18 Sep 2018 by Randy C Finch

A search for efficient algorithms to find Ruth-Aaron pairs

Modal Analysis of Plane Truss using Python

3 Sep 2018 by Bhairav Thakkar

Basic modal analysis for dynamic response of structures in Python

Paging WPF DataGrid

26 Aug 2018 by WyoMetz

Simple and easy paging of a WPF DataGrid with DataTable and LINQ queries

A Flock of Lambdas

21 Aug 2018 by Joe Programmer 1

What's going on with lambda expressions, anonymous functions, and all that stuff?

Javascript

Python

Protection & Decompiling Software - Start Point Info

20 Aug 2018 by NewPast

Software protection & Decompiling software as a new cracking method

Let's IoT Hub: Tutorial 2

3 Aug 2018 by g96b10

Create a console application that listens to the data your Raspberry Pi 3 uploads to Azure IoT Hub

Let's IoT Hub: Tutorial 3

2 Aug 2018 by g96b10

Create an application to download and store data uploaded to your Azure IoT Hub

Win10 TabletMode & WinForms.Net Form Event Order

28 Jul 2018 by B.O.B.

Win10 TabletMode alters the order of Form events in WinForms.Net - this article describes how to correct the event order

VB.NET Global Try Catch in the Application Framework

27 Jul 2018 by B.O.B.

Implement a Global Try Catch block while still using the .NET Application Framework.

Using NDepend to Understand Complicated .NET Code Base

14 Jul 2018 by zhopan77

My experience of using NDepend Callers / Callees graph to help understand complicated .NET code structure

.NET

Dev

Architect