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This article explains a 3D Geometry library developed using VB.Net

In order to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a suite of new technologies was added to the upcoming release of Visual Basic 2008 that includes type inference. In earlier versions of Visual Basic, a member's type was assumed to be Object unless a different type was explicitly declared in code. A drawback to declaring a variable this way is that the compiler is only able to assume that the value of the variable will be of type Object. The experience for the developer is that IntelliSense is only able to display information for the members that are common to all Objects, though there may be other members available on the actual instance at run time. With late binding, the other members are bound at run time, which means they will not be verified in any way until it is time for the line to be executed. So, nonexistent members can be referenced in code, and the problem will not be caught by the compiler. This can easily result in a MissingMemberException and generally requires you to keep track of more information on your own...

The Analog Clock control is a control that has almost all functionality that clock control can have and it is fully modifiable.

Extend GridView.PagerBar while preserving its functionality and add a drop-down to change the page size

Application Settings is a new feature in Windows Forms 2.0 that allows you to maintain both user- and application-specific data (known as settings). Find out how to use it to improve your application's usability with personalization--this time in Visual Basic.

Visual Basic .NET class implements image filter which can change hue, saturation and/or lightness of the image.

This article describes how to use DirectShow.NET. DirectShow.NET is a dll to use DirectShow as managed code. I found it hard to find examples for using DirectShow. I still didn't find out how that all works. That is why I translated a C# example of DirectShow.NET to VB.NET code..

This contains a set of VB written classes which help with threading tasks

Learn how to make the ListView control sort by a column when a user clicks on a column header, sort by all columns, or sort in just about any other way you can imagine.

This is a base class to help easily create UITypeEditors. It is used to edit control properties in a DropDown window or a Modal-Form in design mode in the Visual Studio IDE