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Discovering Visual Basic .NET: Working with Variables
Rating: none
Bill Hatfield - 12/21/2004
Nearly every program needs to keep track of things. Discover how to with Visual Basic .NET in this installment of the Visual Basic .NET tutorials.

Add an Exciting Gradient Backdrop!
12/23/2003
Discover howe to use Visual Basic to add a gradient backdrop to your applications!

Forms & Controls

Enable / Disable Forms Close Button
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Pete Cozens - 01/28/2004
Learn how to enable/disable the Close button on a form. (Added: 9-Jun-1999)

Treating a Form Like a Function
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Konstantin Komissarchik - 01/28/2004
Learn to 'wrap' a form (and all its functionality) as a function in Visual Basic. (Added: 12-May-1999)

Create Star Shaped Window
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Andy Monis - 01/28/2004
Create any window shape you desire. It is currently set to create a hollow star window. The window can be dragged around by the mouse and is closed by double clicking the form. (Added: 1-Dec-1998)

A class for API Created Dynamic Menus
Rating: none
Eling Homminga - 01/28/2004
Learn how to create dynamic menus using the Windows API. All of the code is wrapped up in a small class module that you can drop into your projects right away. (Added: 15-Feb-2000)

Autoresize a form and its controls when the user changes the font
Rating: none
Mike Du Bois - 01/28/2004
Learn how to resize a form and its controls appropriately when a user changes the font for the program. (Added: 23-Jun-1999)

Creating Shaped Windows
Rating: none
Duncan Jones - 01/28/2004
Create shaped windows using the SetWindowRegion and CreatePolygonRgn WinAPI calls. (Added: 15-Feb-2000)

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ListBox

Dynamically Adding a Horizontal Scroll Bar to a List Box
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10Tec Company - 03/18/2003
Learn how to dynamically add a horizontal scroll bar to a list box. (Visual Basic)

ListView Controls

Resizing

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