Sample VB Projects
Most of these are learning projects or things that I have done in my free time for fun. You are welcome to use them as you will. Understand that I will not accept any liability for and damage arising from the use/misuse of the programs or code.
Multi-Alarm Clock
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An alarm clock that plays wav files, uses popup menus, tray icon. You can set different
alarms for different times and choose which days they will go off as well as specifying a .wav
file for each alarm. I wrote this when I was learning VB, and it has some useful demonstration
of using the Windows API. Update: I made some changes to this program. As this was a learning
project for me, the code was muddled. I've made it cleaner, and commented everywhere.
I've also changed the storage to XML.
MasterMind the Classic Game
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Wrote this for a friend one afternoon.
Plasma Generator with Waterfall Chart
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This generates a fractal plasma and displays it with a waterfall plot. Done as a sample for someone
on Experts Exchange.
Floodfill Sample
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Demonstrates how to use floodfill API to fill an area with colour in the same way that
the paint bucket tool does in MSPaint. Done as a sample for someone
on Experts Exchange.
Browser Helper Object Typelib
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Sample on EE.
Here is some documentation for creating C/C++ DLLs for use in VB. I have uploaded it here, since
- many people do not have VB 5.
- the documentation is no longer available in VB 6, or on MSDN website.
Binary to String
Here is some code that was worked on by a group of experts at Experts Exchange. The goal was to optimize some code to convert a binary encoded string to a readable string. See the question here and the source code can be downloaded here.
3D Maze Creation
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This code produces mazes in three dimensions--by that I don't mean 3D graphics,
but maze paths that can branch up and down as well as left and right. It is
pretty rudimentary implementation, and the output is limited,
but as I just wanted to create a maze for
a Neverwinter Nights module, it served the purpose, and could be useful for
someone else learning about maze generation code. In the output, "L" stands for
ladder and "T" stands for trapdoor. You should be able to figure out the rest.
Eight Puzzle/Fifteen Puzzle Solver
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This uses the A* (A-Star) search algorithm to search the state space of the
eight/fifteen sliding tile puzzles for a solution based on Manhattan distance heuristic.
It stores the open nodes in a binary heap, which gives acceptable
performance, searching 1M nodes in about 30s.
Saturday, November 07, 2009