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Optical Illusions and .NET

Explore creating fun and useful optical illusions.

Making a Small Lotto Game in VB.NET

Here's a lottery you can actually win. Of course, it's a virtual lottery.

Creating a Most Recently Used Menu List in .NET

Learn to keep track of which files were opened and saved so that you can re-open them …

The Process Class and .NET

Discover the most common uses of the Process class to launch separate processes (programs) …

MessageQueue in .NET, Part 2: The Code

Working with the FileSystemWatcher in .NET

FileSystemWatcher is a powerful tool you can employ in your .NET programming. Learn about …

Creating a Text Scroller Control

Build a scrolling text user control. Examples are in C# and VB.NET.

Single Instance Applications in .NET

Explore two ways to check whether an application is already running. Example code is both …

Creating a Maze Game in .NET, Part 3: Adding the Final Touches to the Form

Wrap things up and finish the mouse maze game. Coding examples are both in C# and VB.NET.

Creating Another Self-destruct Program

Explore making use of batch files to delete the program, but only after the program has …

Creating Your Own Advanced Clipboard in .NET

Learn to make a clipboard that can hold multiple objects at the same time, and how to …

Encrypting Important Strings with Triple DES and .NET

Build a small application that takes a few lines of text and encrypts or decrypts it. …

Environment Variables and .NET

Take a look at most of the available environment variables on Windows systems, and what …

Inverting Image Colors in .NET

Use the features in the .NET system to invert colors in a graphic. Coding examples are …

Creating a Maze Game in .NET, Part 2: Adding Gameplay

Add the physical Maze object and enable it to work with the existing Grid and Game classes …