Games and Fun

Use Visual Basic .NET to create an Autorun menu, through the use of HTA, JavaScript and VBScript.

Learn how to change all the mouse settings through the use of your Visual Basic program and the Registry.

Round those corners and make your user interfaces a little jazzier with a rounded rectangle Panel control; a fun chunk of code to incorporate into your application.

Learn to create an application that can set and apply most TaskBar settings.

Gain the ability to contain controls and add a little preview for your control in design time.

Learn how to create your own GroupBox, with added features such as Alignment for the Title, and a scrollbar for child controls.

It's a simple game, but this tutorial will get you playing in a very short time.

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

Discover, and learn to use, some of the behind-the-scenes technologies used with Facebook, and learn how to write an application that interfaces with Facebook.

Everyone has ideas about how to build software. Explore some common fallacies and collect some hints that may help you along the way. All of the ideas are the opinion of the author (who is sometimes wrong).

Learn how to create an application that changes your wallpapers after a specified period, as well as how to apply the Tile, Center, and Stretch wallpaper styles.

Learn how to launch, configure, and preview screen savers on your own form; also, learn how to change the computer's Visual style (along with the fonts and colours pertaining to the particular visual style), and other useful things.

Discover a simple class to control the settings in your Web Cam.

Reliability is a by-product of beautiful code, so conscientious programmers care about the look of their code. But who's got the time to write beautiful code when deadlines and end users couldn't care less what the code looks like? Here's how to make the time.

Sudoku is a logic-based location puzzle game normally played using numbers. This is simply an introduction to some of the facets of VB .NET using the mathematics behind Sudoku.

What young programmers have in energy, we veteran programmers have in experience. Find out how to use that experience to stay one step ahead of the eager youngsters.

Paul Kimmel sends up the IT workplace with another parody based on the comedy of Jeff Foxworthy. Depending on how close to home these comical scenarios hit, you may not know whether to laugh or cry.

Dear Santa, all Paul Kimmel wants for Christmas is code that employs whole words and a sane use of capitalization, abolishing funny prefix characters and prefix notations. Is he asking too much?

If you asked Charlton Heston, Moses in the epic film The Ten Commandments, to list 10 useful commandments for programmers, Paul Kimmel believes this would be his answer.

Paul Kimmel offers an ode to the symbiotic relationship between the programmer and the tester, positing that software quality suffers when one generalist assumes both roles.

If every project you work on has a schedule before it has a plan, you might be suffocating in a constipated bureaucracy. That's just one of the 36 workplace quips you'll find as Paul Kimmel does for programmers what Jeff Foxworthy did for rednecks.

Learn to tap into the cards.dll provided with Windows to give your card games the same professional look used in Windows' card games!

A simple VB game program that takes advantage of using the image control's index property. Created with just a few lines of code (less than 10).