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WPF 3D FlipPanel

by Fredrik Bornander

WPF Implementation of the spinning panel frequently used on the iPhone

AJAX-enabled Name Selector User Control

by Steve Krile

Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.

Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB

by Graeme_Grant

A Modern Toggle Switch - From mock concept to a full custom WPF control that you can plug into your own apps

Create and Send An Email Reply in C# / VB.NET

by JosipK, Marko Kozlina

C# and VB.NET console applications that demonstrate how to create and send an email reply with IMAP and SMTP protocols in .NET Framework

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

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

Classification using Logistic Regression in Visual Basic

by chlohee

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

Office Programming Helper Indent VB Code

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

Float Point Numbers as Approximates & Using Errors

by NewPast

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

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Visual Basic

WPF 3D FlipPanel

13 Mar 2012 by Fredrik Bornander

WPF Implementation of the spinning panel frequently used on the iPhone

.NET

Windows

WPF

Design

Dev

AJAX-enabled Name Selector User Control

24 Aug 2009 by Steve Krile

Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.

Flexible WPF ToggleSwitch Lookless Control in C# & VB

15 Nov 2017 by Graeme_Grant

A Modern Toggle Switch - From mock concept to a full custom WPF control that you can plug into your own apps

Create and Send An Email Reply in C# / VB.NET

15 Jun 2016 by JosipK, Marko Kozlina

C# and VB.NET console applications that demonstrate how to create and send an email reply with IMAP and SMTP protocols in .NET Framework

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

U 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

Using C Calling Convention Callback Functions in C# and VB - The Easy Way

13 Sep 2005 by Jecho Jekov

Provides an easy way to use C calling convention callback functions in C# and VB

Vash - A GDI+ Flash-Like Vector Animation Program

27 Apr 2016 by Clayton Rumley

There are those who think I am crazy, and this just might be the proof.

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.

Transmission Line Matrix for Acoustic Simulations

12 Oct 2013 by Kenneth Haugland

Implementation and theory behind TLM modelling for acoustic wave propagation with 2D and 3D view. Also includes a raindrop and boat wake simulation.

C#4.0

WPF

parallel

Flyout - A great way to save space on your webpage

4 Dec 2007 by Ned Thompson

This article will demo how a free Flyout can help to save space on your webpage.

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

Injecting Method Calls to Existing Methods of an Assembly

24 Apr 2012 by Ana Carolina Zambon

This is a demonstration of how to use the basics of Mono.Cecil by adding method calls to existing assemblies.

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.

Fabrika LAB: WebCam Video

22 May 2013 by Dejan Mauer

Free and easy way to access a web camera by using the Aforge library.

CurionLib Dynamic Data Entry Forms

11 Aug 2013 by LarryCharlton

Dynamic data forms.

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 1 - Basics First

9 Sep 2017 by Gamil Yassin

Part 1 of a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch

.NET

artificial-intelligence

Migration - Strategy Game

7 Nov 2022 by Terence Wallace

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

game

DA 1 OPC Wrapper DLL and Client Example

6 Nov 2012 by Kurt Swaim

Describes an OPC wrapper DLL and an example of how to use it for communication to a device through an OPC server.

Dev

Easy ToolStrip - Let your UserControl display beyond the Containers/Form limits (C# and VB.NET)

3 Aug 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...

ySurf : A Yahoo! Messenger clone built in Silverlight

28 Mar 2010 by Vinit Yadav

A Yahoo! messenger clone application built with Silverlight and its Duplex Polling WCF service. Explains how to deal with the Yahoo! packet format named YMSG.

GesturCubes

4 Nov 2013 by Meshack Musundi

WPF 3D cubes puzzle game for the AIO(All-In-One) PC

WPF

Code39 Barcodes in VB.NET and C#

24 Sep 2015 by Stefano Castelli

The article will illustrate how to create a Code39 barcode in VB.NET and C#

GHeat .NET

21 Jun 2010 by Corey Fournier

gheat ported to C#

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

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 3 - Perceptron

16 Sep 2017 by Gamil Yassin

Perceptron, when to use it and sample code

.NET

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

network

April Fools! Evil Windows Dialog Prank

31 Mar 2011 by Gregory Gadow

Prank your coworkers with a dialog box that appears and disappears randomly by using a notification area app.

Using Google Calendar with VB.NET and ASP.NET

1 Jan 2012 by wayvirgo

How to use the Google Calendar API from VB.NET.

Dynamically Add Access Database Columns at Runtime using VB.NET

21 Apr 2013 by Rob Culhane

How to dynamically add access database columns at runtime using VB.NET

Excel, Jira, Rest API end to end example

12 Apr 2016 by bradyguy

An end to end view of how to integrate Jira REST API's with Excel.

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

24 Apr 2023 by Graeme_Grant

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

.NET

ClickOnce

installer

Silverlight 3: Slideshow

6 Oct 2009 by CS Rocks

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

Indoor Weather Station using Arduino

2 Feb 2010 by carl morey

A complete weather station using Arduino 2009 and Visual Basic

Enhanced CollectionEditor Framework

21 Jul 2014 by _Plutonix

An easy to use, customizable Collection Editor; with inheritance support

Genetic Algorithm in VisualBasic

4 Nov 2016 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

VisualBasic Darwinism Evolutionary computation Application and Super Computing

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 4 - Beyond Perceptron

17 Sep 2017 by Gamil Yassin

Part 4 of a series of articles demonstrating .NET AI library from scratch

.NET

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

ANN

network

A Highlightable WPF/MVVM TextBlock in C#/VB.Net

22 Jan 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM

Reading and Writing XML in C#/VB.Net

22 Dec 2017 by Dirk Bahle

Tips & Tricks on De/Serializing object graphs with XML

How to Upload a File to a WebDAV Server in VB.NET

14 May 2009 by CS Rocks

This article demonstrates how to upload a file to a (HTTPS) WebDAV server in VB.NET.

Forward/Backward Code Navigation with the Mouse Thumb Buttons Inside Visual Studio 2010 (C++, Visual Basic, F#)

7 Feb 2010 by Jochen Baier

Addin to navigate in your code using the thumb buttons of your mouse

Dependency Injection with ObjectPoolManager (OPM)

31 Oct 2010 by NavnathKale

Lightweight and simple

TreeView Explorer using VB.NET 2008

7 Jul 2012 by Manoj K Bhoir

TreeView Explorer using VB.NET 2008

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls

30 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.

How to Create a WCF WebService in VB.NET

16 May 2017 by Rene Bustos

WCF WebService IN VB.NET Response JSON

Fire Simulation and Prediction by Markov Chain Monte Carlo

5 Jun 2017 by Mahsa Hassankashi

phenomenon prediction and simulation by Markov Chain Mont Carlo

Advanced WPF TreeViews in C#/VB.Net Part 3 of n

8 Dec 2017 by Dirk Bahle, Alaa Ben Fatma

Tips & tricks on visting and searching nodes in WPF TreeViews

.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

Classification using Logistic Regression in Visual Basic

U 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

Writing a Debugger - Part 2: The Debug Loop

21 Oct 2003 by Duncan Edwards Jones

Part 2 in the series showing how to write a debugger in VB

Lightswitch Job Hunter Application

19 Jan 2012 by stuxstu

Job application tracker for those out of work built using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2011.

Windows Form Screenshot and Print Preview in VB.NET

12 Mar 2012 by ledtech3

How to take a screenshot of a Windows form and then print it.

UPnP code for Windows 8

13 Sep 2012 by ljw1004

How to use UPnP on Windows 8

i00 NAT Forwarder

4 Mar 2013 by i00

Automatic port forwarding for your UPnP enabled router.

Build Simple AI .NET Library - Part 6 - ML Algorithms

29 Sep 2017 by Gamil Yassin

ML algorithms based on function or type of problems they solve

.NET

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

A Polynomials Math Parser in VB.NET

4 May 2022 by Xavier Junqué i de Fortuny

Polynomials Math Parser and Evaluator in VB.NET

CSV to SQL Server

11 Jul 2023 by Igor Krupitsky

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

SQL-Server

COM Mailslots - Designing asynchonous COM components for VB

10 Apr 2002 by Len Holgate

This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.

WatiN Test Recorder

14 Jun 2007 by Daaron

Automate web test recording into C#, VB.NET and PHP

Multi-Threaded Game Server Browser

19 Jun 2009 by Greenhorn999

A project that allows users to query Source and Half-Life-based master servers and individual servers

Working with CLR Objects in SQL Server 2005 or Above Part 2

2 Aug 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Gives an introduction of how to create SQL CLR managed objects in SQL server.

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.

Embedded Controls in HMIs

10 Nov 2017 by knockNrod

Creating Embedded Controls for WonderWare InTouch and WinCC

.NET

.NET2.0

user-controls

ContextMenuStrip Control with Microsoft Office like Visual Style using VB.NET

11 Dec 2011 by Manoj K Bhoir

ContextMenuStrip Control with Microsoft Office like Visual Style using VB.NET

Office

Modeling the Biochemical System Using VB

6 Oct 2013 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Mathematical method of S-system equation to simulate a biochemical network system

Magic Blocks (game tutorial)

18 Aug 2017 by VisualMonsters

Magic blocks -Simple logical game tutorial

.NET-Compiler-Platform

VisualBasic Machine Learning, Step 1: The Q-Learning

28 Mar 2016 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Machine playing snake game

.NET

Dev

machine-learning

How to do CreateFileMapping in a C++ DLL and access it in C#, VB and C++

10 Mar 2009 by nkrscorpio

This is yet another example for memory mapped files. What is cool though is unlike other samples, I have a SetData(TCHAR* Key, TCHAR* value) / GetData(TCHAR* key) pattern here.

Fast Updating of Treeview Control With a Database in VB.NET

6 Apr 2010 by seejay1120

A Fast Way to Update Treeview Nodes Using a Database as a Source

ASP.NET Automatic Object to UI Binding

25 Apr 2012 by Razi Syed

Easily bind a class to .NET data controls like GridView, FormView, etc., and get an updated object or list back in the code-behind effortlessly.

TexasQuest v.2.0

22 Mar 2013 by Terence Wallace

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

ASP.NET Webform Generator

5 Apr 2015 by J.L. MacDonald

When supplied with a connection string and table name, this tool will read the field data types and create asp controls for you to copy and paste in your own project.

WebBrowser IE Emulation for Google Maps JavaScript API Key Requirement

4 Jul 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

"Don't care about Google Maps/Routing/StreetView programming. This Control gives your WinForms applications the power of Google Maps API v3". - my previous article. Unfortunately, since Dec.2015, Google Maps JavaScript API applications requires authentication and the program stopped working properly

Exposing tabular data from your COM object - Part 2

28 Jul 2000 by Len Holgate

The ATL OLE DB Provider templates appear to rely on the fact that your data is kept in a simple array, but that's not really the case at all!

Using Nhibernate in VB.NET

7 Jan 2008 by S.SRIVATHSAN

Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET

Sound in games - Rooms

31 Jul 2012 by Kenneth Haugland

How to calculate a reverbration time in a room

How to Read a PE Image's Manifest Resource using an Undocumented Internal .NET Class Method

21 Jan 2013 by Kerem Guemruekcue

This short article shows how to use an undocumented internal class method from the System.Deployment.Application.Win32InterOp namespace to get a PE images manifest resource.

Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app

12 Apr 2013 by NightWizzard

...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...

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

21 Apr 2013 by Mike-MadBadger

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

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

10 Nov 2014 by Dirk_Strauss

Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

State Machine - State Pattern vs. Classic Approach

5 Aug 2014 by Chris875

State pattern and procedural solution illustrated

iPhone like controls for .Net, Part 2: IOS switch

28 Jul 2014 by hgbecker

Animated IOS like On/Off switch.

.NET4.5

.NET

Dev

Creating Report using Report Builder and Oracle DB - Part 2

28 Dec 2014 by Snesh Prajapati

In this article series, I am sharing how to create report using Report Builder by fetching data from Oracle DB.

typed programming the typed Dataset - for Beginners and others

3 Oct 2015 by Mr.PoorEnglish

what is "typed" on typed Dataset, and how to use it

Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio and SSMS

18 Feb 2016 by Kuv Patel

Debug stored procedures in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.

How to Paint on Top of a ProgressBar using C#

6 Mar 2016 by Hiske Bekkering

A simple explanation of how to synchronize custom painting with a ProgressBar's default painting.

Using VBA to run Outlook Rules for one or more accounts

3 Mar 2017 by Dracula

Run all rules for all accounts on all messages; also useful as Outlook Rule debug tool.

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

LINQ to Family Tree (Prolog Style)

31 Jul 2013 by Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya

Querying a family tree in LINQ fashion.

.NET

artificial-intelligence

LINQ

Dev

Black-Oil MSV

21 Apr 2014 by Amir Emamjomeh

This application integrates modification, simulation and visualization of Black-Oil model of hydrocarbon reservoirs

WPF

simulator

Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic

8 Feb 2015 by Emiliano Musso

How to apply GA techniques fo solving problems in VB.NET. The example shows how to create solutions for a 2D maze, which will evolve to find the shortest path between two points.

Automated UI Testing - An Alternative Approach for Agile Teams

1 Oct 2015 by Steve Aube 1