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Below are a selection of VB code samples. Feel free to use any of them in your own projects.

==Variables==
* [[Is it an integer|How do you tell if a number is an integer?]]
* [[Identifying data types|Obtain the type name for a variable]]
* [[Passing UDTs to Classes|Pass a user defined type to a class]]

==COM objects==
* [[Events from a module|Firing events in an object from a code module]]
* [[Modularised Subclassing|Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory]]
* [[Singletons|Creating singleton objects]]

==User interface==
* [[Control arrays|Creating and using control arrays]]
* [[Mouse Hover and Out Events|How to Catch Mouse Hover and Out Events]]
* [[Catch KeyPresses over whole form|How to catch KeyPresses on a form when a control has focus]]
* [[XP style|XP Styles in your application]]
* [[Creating Transparent Controls (.NET)|Creating a transparent control in .NET]]
* [[Tabbed dialogs|Using Tab controls in your applications]]

===Graphics===
* [[Drawing with GDI|Introduction to GDI drawing]]
* [[Using GDI to draw to a backbuffer|Drawing with a backbuffer]]
* [[Drawing an image to a DC|How to draw an image to a DC with GDI]]
* [[All About StretchBlt|All about StretchBlt]]

===Text boxes===
* [[Numberboxes|Allowing numeric values only]]
* [[Chat windows|Scrolling chat windows]]

===Windows===
* [[Always on top|Making a window "Always on top"]]
* [[Dragging windows|Dragging windows/controls the easy way]]
* [[Creating Floating Tool Windows|How to create a tool window that floats above your app]]
* [[Subclassing|How to subclass a window to catch useful windows messages]]
* [[Modularised Subclassing|Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory]]

==File handling==
* [http://www.earlsoft.co.uk/tips/fileio.php File I/O. Reliably]
* [[Special folders|Getting special folder paths]]
* [[API_Recursive_DIR_Structure|How to iterate through a directory structure using APIs]]
* [[Working with INI files in .NET|Working with INI files in .NET]]

==Networking==
* [[Detecting_Network_Adapters|How to get a list of the network adapters on the system]]

==Miscellaneous==
* [[Open a URL|Open a URL in a web browser]]
* [[Sleep_Without_the_Freezing|Sleeping without freezing the program]] (uses DoEvents)
* [[Why_DoEvents_Are_Evil|Why DoEvents can cause problems]]
* [[Windows version|Detecting the version of Windows]]
* [[Close_Without_End|How to close your app without using End]]