Tutorials

Animation: Bouncing Ball in Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I’m going to teach you how to animate a ball by using Visual basic 2008. The feature of the ball is that, it bounces in every side of the Form. With this, you will learn the functions of the bitmap and the graphics object. Let’s begin: Open the Visual Basic 2008 and create a New Windows Application.

How to Create a Simple CPU and RAM Meter in Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a simple CPU and RAM meter by using Visual Basic 2008. With this, you will be able to know the usage of your RAM and CPU. And it also calculates the percentage of its performance usage. Let’s begin: Open Visual Basic 2008, create a new Windows Application and drag the Label, ProgressBar, PerformanceCounter and a Timer. Name the two PerformanceCounters, “pcCPU” and the other one is “pcRAM”. Then, name the two Labels into “lblCPU” and “lblRAM”.

File Handling : Creating the Logs in Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create logs in Visual Basic 2008. Logs are very important because it records previous transactions and day to day activities of the system. For instance, in a log in system, you can determine the time and who is the user that had logged in the system. And whenever your system has a problem you can easily determine what was it with the help of logs. So, let’s begin: Open Visual Basic 2008, create a New Windows application , drag a RichTextBox, and a Button in the Form. And it will look like this.

Print the Text in a Textbox Part II..(Page Setup and Print Dialog)

Submitted by janobe on
This is the continuation of my previous tutorial which is the Print the Text in a Textbox. This time, I’m going to add the Page Setup and Print Dialog. In the Page Setup you can choose any setup that you wanted in your page and it contains selections such as the margin,sizes and etc.. While in the Print Dialog you can select the number of pages and copies that you want to print.

Drag/Drop and Copy Control in a TreeView Using Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial, I will show you how to drag/drop and copy in a Treeview by using Visual Basic 2008. I made this to show you not only a PictureBox or a TextBox can be drag and drop but also a treeview. Let’s begin: Open Visual Basic 2008, create a new Windows Application and drag the two Treeview in the Form. Name it “trview_left” and “trview_right”. first form After that, click the two Treeviews and go to the properties.

How to Print the Text in a Textbox

Submitted by janobe on
This time, I’m going to teach you how to print the text in a Textbox in Visual Basic 2008. This will allow you to preview and print any message that you type in a TextBox. It depends on you, on how long your message will because it will automatically set on the next page. So, lets get started : Open Visual Basic 2008, create a new Window Application and do the Form just like this.

Custom Playlist Handler in Visual Basic - Part 2 - Playing Playlists

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This is the second of a two part tutorial on how to create a custom music playlist and player in Visual Basic. Note: Our Visual Basic player will simply use the Windows Media Player control and this series is going to be mainly focusing on the IO.

Custom Playlist Handler in Visual Basic - Part 1 - Creating Playlists

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This is the first of a two part tutorial on how to create a custom music playlist and player in Visual Basic. Note: Our Visual Basic player will simply use the Windows Media Player control and this series is going to be mainly focusing on the IO.

Drag/Drop and Copy Control in Visual Basic 2008

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create Drag/Drop and Copy Control using Visual Basic 2008. With this, you can drag and drop the picture that’s inside the Picture box and you can also copy it to another Picture Box by pressing the Ctrl key control. Let's begin: Open Visual Basic 2008, create a new Windows Application and drag the two PictureBoxes in the Form.