Discover how to update the VB6 Asteroids project to run in VB.NET.

This time, you look at animating bitmap images and write a simple platform game. You also find out how to load images directly into memory without setting up a picturebox in design time.

Look at doing a simple stick figure animations, and then use similar methods to create a simple, fast-paced 2D vector animated game.

Web forms do not have a canvas, so you can't ask a Web form for its Graphics object. But, you can simulate this behavior by rendering graphics in ASP.NET—with some help from GDI+.

Draw shaded tubes using circles and random numbers. Great basis for a screen saver.