Code samples

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

Variables

• How do you tell if a number is an integer?
• Obtain the type name for a variable
• Pass a user defined type to a class

COM objects

• Firing events in an object from a code module
• Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory
• Creating singleton objects

User interface

• How to Catch Mouse Hover and Out Events

GDI

• Introduction to GDI drawing

Text boxes

• Allowing numeric values only
• Srolling chat windows

Windows

• Dragging windows/controls the easy way
• Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory

File handling

• File I/O. Reliably
• Getting special folder paths

Miscellaneous

• Sleeping without freezing the program
• Detecting the version of Windows