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Learn how to create various odd shapes.
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Animation in VB.NET, Part 3
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Richard Newcombe takes a look at Bitmap Animations in VB.NET. VB6 made extensive use of API's to load and initialize large quantities of smaller images. .NET has the GDI+ dynamic library, with a large selection of graphic classes and functions, which means that we no longer require API's to manipulate images.
Creating your own Tetris game with VB.NET - Part 3
Published 04/14/2010
In this part of my series, I am going to cover the whole creation of all the shapes, and the game playing methods.
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