Visual Basic Application Samples

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These samples demonstrate architecture, project, user, and assembly tasks.

In This Section

  • Application Events Sample
    Demonstrates the application events accessed through the Project Designer.

  • ClickOnce Sample
    Deploys and updates an application using ClickOnce.

  • Console Application Sample
    Demonstrates simple input and output using the console window.

  • Consuming a Web Service Sample
    Demonstrates how to consume various existing .NET Framework Web services, including services providing the current weather, a cartoon-a-day, and currency conversion.

  • Excel Sample
    Demonstrates how to use Visual Basic to start Excel, create a workbook from a template, update cells in a worksheet that then populate graphs in the workbook, and perform other tasks.

  • Game Sample
    Demonstrates the My feature, object-oriented programming, and drawing.

  • Logging Sample
    Uses the My.Application.Log object to log information to files and event logs.

  • Multithreading Sample
    Shows two different ways to implement multithreaded tasks.

  • Office Automation Sample
    Demonstrates automation of Microsoft Agent, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.

  • PowerPoint Sample
    Demonstrates how to start PowerPoint, create a blank presentation, add a slide and content, print slides, save your changes, and exit PowerPoint from within a Visual Basic application.

  • Reflection Sample
    Uses reflection to discover type information in an assembly.

  • Resources and Settings Sample
    Demonstrates the My.Settings and My.Resources objects.

  • Send Mail Sample
    Shows how to send email over SMTP using classes in the System.Web.Mail namespace.

  • Stack Frame Inspection Sample
    Demonstrates how to programmatically retrieve information about the call stack at any point from within the executing code.

  • System and Environment Information Sample
    Demonstrates the use of several classes that provide environment information.

  • TCP Remoting Sample
    Shows how to use the .NET Framework remoting architecture.

  • User Information Sample
    Provides an overview of the My.User object and the Login Form template. It implements a simple custom authentication.

  • Visual Basic 6.0 Upgrade Sample
    Presents the Visual Basic 6.0 VCR example in both Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2005 code.

  • WCF Chat Sample
    Demonstrates how to implement a multiparty chat application by using PeerChannel.

  • WCF Windows Forms Sample
    Demonstrates a service that implements a contract that defines a request and reply communication pattern.

Reference

  • My Reference
    The My feature provides access to application and user properties.

  • My.Application Object
    The My.Application object provides access to application properties.