Visual Basic Code Samples

Get the latest code samples for Visual Basic. Here you'll find links to application, Web, and data samples done in Visual Basic.

Featured Code Samples

Visual Basic 2008 Samples

These samples demonstrate many of the features available with Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, including over 100 LINQ samples. Accept the license to down download the samples.

101 Visual Basic LINQ Samples

Learn how to use LINQ in your applications with these code samples, covering the entire range of LINQ functionality and demonstrating LINQ with SQL, DataSets, and XML.

Code Gallery
Find the latest Visual Basic code samples in the Code Gallery or upload your own samples.

CodePlex
Find open source projects on CodePlex or start your own.

Visual Basic 2005 Samples

	101 Samples for Visual Basic 2005 101 Samples demonstrate many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.
	My.Blogs Sample for Visual Basic 2005 The My.Blogs sample provides an example of how to extend My to provide a way of accessing common functionality throughout your code, or you can extend it to build a full featured blog utility to work with blogs on your desktop, a browser, or even Outlook.
	Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 This sample highlights a number of the individual refactoring operations supported by Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005.
	Visual Basic in Office (Excel) Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office and Visual Basic 2005 to transform a static mortgage calculator worksheet into a rich real estate locator solution by adding data binding, user controls, a managed actions pane, and Web services.
	RSS Reader In this short sample, see how using Visual Basic 2005 can quickly build a custom Blog Reader that looks just like Outlook.
	Windows Application Enhancements Build a smart client application that takes advantage of new windows forms controls and design-time data enhancements to build a professional looking smart client application that can be easily deployed and maintained.

General Samples

QuickStarts
The .NET Framework SDK includes several QuickStart samples designed to introduce you to various aspects of the .NET Framework. The samples consist of sample code, instructional text, and graphics that illustrate the implementation of the code.

Visual Basic Sample Abstracts

In Visual Basic documentation, a sample is a Visual Basic project you can load into Visual Studio and run. An example is a small block of code that demonstrates a single, limited programming task. A snippet is a block of code that you insert in the Code Editor by using the IntelliSense Code Snippet feature. This link will take you to a page that provides links to descriptions of the Visual Basic sample applications.

Application Samples
The following samples represent complete applications written for the .NET Framework and the .NET Compact Framework. As such, these samples address a variety of technologies and exhibit more complete error handling and object-oriented development than other samples in the SDK.

Technology Samples
The technology samples demonstrate the various technologies in the .NET Framework. These samples are intended for instructional use only. As such, these samples tend to exhibit limited error handling, and often do not reflect the object-oriented nature of the .NET Framework.

BCL Demos
This page contains links and descriptions of demos related to the .NET Base Class Library. These references give new insight into the reasoning behind a particular design, or can help leverage the full power of a particular feature, or API.

Code Snippet Editors

The Visual Basic Snippet Editors are Windows Forms applications for creating, editing, and testing code snippets.