Code samples
From HashVB
Below are a selection of VB code samples. Feel free to use any of them in your own projects.
Contents
COM objects
- Firing events in an object from a code module
- Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory
- Creating singleton objects
File handling
- File I/O. Reliably
- Getting special folder paths
- How to iterate through a directory structure using APIs
- Working with INI files in .NET
Networking
Strings
User interface
- Creating and using control arrays
- How to Catch Mouse Hover and Out Events
- How to catch KeyPresses on a form when a control has focus
Graphics
- Introduction to GDI drawing
- Drawing with a backbuffer
- How to draw an image to a DC with GDI
- All about StretchBlt
- Pattern Brushes
Look & Feel
- XP Styles in your application
- Creating a transparent control in .NET
- Using Tab controls in your applications
Text boxes
Windows
- Making a window "Always on top"
- Dragging windows/controls the easy way
- How to create a tool window that floats above your app
- How to subclass a window to catch useful windows messages
- Modularised Subclassing using interfaces and CopyMemory
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
