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Year 2008 below

[3/08 - I believe I Finally have this old design updated to the examples added to the new website design. You should use the new design at http://www.vbcodesource.com or http://www.vbcodesource.com/index.php for now on since those pages will always have priority with updates and news and such. These old pages may not be updated for a long time whenever something new is released. There will probably be a point to where I won't even update these old pages anymore.

[3/08 - A new example for VB.NET has been added that will check a IP, URL, or UNC (Universal Naming Convention) name using the "IsDestinationReachable" Windows API call to see if it is reachable or not. It can return the to and from speed of the network used to try and reach the destination along with the type of network available. This can somewhat be considered a pinging example in a sense but you wouldn't get accurate reply times since the API will also get the Network type and the To/From speed before returning control to your application. But it would be good to see if a specified destination is available or not. VB 05/2008 already has a full Ping class for checking a destination. I would recommend you use that class if using those versions unless you want the network to/from speed or whatnot.

[3/08 - An example for Visual Basic .NET has been added that shows how to convert Unix Time to a Structured Windows based time. It converts and displays the Unix time based on UTC Time and the Computers Local Timezone. The example displays the current Timezone and the Timezone offset compared to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinate) as well. This example is compatible with all versions of .NET including VB 2005 and VB 2008. A simple upgrade process is all thats needed for 05/08.

[3/08 - A new example for VB.NET has been addded. Its basically a near clone of the VB 6.0 version that uses the GetPerformanceInfo() API Function to get various low level computer information. It mainly returns various memory info along with some thread and paging data. I am pretty much Computer Info'ed out so I may not be making anymore computer performance info data examples.

[3/08 - A new example for Visual Basic 6.0 and 5.0 has been added on how to get high resolution timing using the QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency API counters. This timer supports sub-millisecond resolutions which is better than timeGetTime and far better than the getTickCount timer. This timer will usually use a 3.6 Mhz clock on the motherboard for timing but sometimes it could use your processors rdtsc counter. Examine the QueryPerformanceFrequency returned data from its ByRef parameter to see what the ticks per second of the timer is. If the function returns a 0 then the computer does Not support the timer or you did NOT pass the APIs parameter ByRef(By Reference) which is Required. Do Not pass the parameters for these two (2) QueryPerformance APIs ByVal(By Value) because they WILL fail. You Must pass them ByRef. IF you need very precise timing, then this counter should be the way to go.

[3/08 - Another example for Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 and compatible with VB 2005/2008 has been added. This example shows how to perform basic Math calculations using string variables/objects. It shows the Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division based operators. The main purpose I guess is how to perform Math operations on Strings in a somewhat safer way. It basically uses the Val() Function which will examine a string and if the string is a number or if the string starts with a number then it will convert a object/string to a double or a Char to a integer type. IF the string contains no number or doesn't begin with a number then it will simply return a 0 which will keep your application from throwing a improper casting error message and/or crashing. A VB 6.0 version may be put up soon.

[3/08 - A small example made with Visual Basic.NET has been added that shows how to use delegates and callbacks to create and use a higher resolution windows based API Event Timer. This example uses the timeSetEvent/timeKillEvent APIs which supports much higher resolutions than the original SetTimer/KillTimer APIs at about 1 milli seconds compared to 15-16ms. This timer is actually a part of the winmm.dll multi-media library that has most of the multi-media based apis like the Playsound and mciSendString apis. Anyways, its located in the .NET - Examples page.

[3/08 - A new example made with Visual Basic.NET 2008 on using the Managed Windows API Timer from the DotNET Framework was added. The codes in this example is compatible with VB.NET 2005 but the project will Not load in 2005. The managed timer was added in version 2.0 of the framework which VB 2005 is based on. This example shows how to create a timer and have it call a function of your choice each time the specified interval has elapsed. This timer appears to be a managed wrapper around the SetTimer/KillTimer APIs from the User32.dll library that I made a example for VB.NET a few weeks ago. The resolution is only about 15/16ms. You can try using the Un-Managed multi-media timeSetEvent/timeKillEvent APIs which supports resolutions up to 1ms and is based on the winmm.dll library. I do have a example on these multi-media apis but never released it. I may do that later on though.

[3/08 - The example on how to Clear All Textboxes, Manipulate or Set properties for all conrols on a form has been updated. The update has new codes that shows how to skip over or bypass controls specified in the code and clear or set the rest of the controls that are Not specified to skip.

[3/08 - I added a new Control I made with C++ with _stdcall exports so it can be used by Visual Basic under the .NET - Controls page. The control will return some various basic cpu info like the model, vendor, stepping, clockspeed, ect... A example on how to use the library made with VB.NET 2002/2003 and compatible with Visual Basic 2005/2008 has been added to the .NET - Examples page.

[3/08 - An example for Visual Basic.NET has been added that shows how to get the Textbox Controls - current line number (#) in VB.NET 2002/2003 (The VB 2005 and VB 2008 Textbox has a feature for this, but is Not in this example. Might add later), getting the total numbers of lines in the textbox, and getting the text/characters at the current line position.

[3/08 - A new example for Visual Basic 6.0 (the code in the example is VB 5.0 compatible) has been added that shows how to use the GetEnvironmentVariable API call function to access some pre-defined variables and get/retrieve their values. You can see some Environment Variables if you go to the 'Start' then 'Settings' menu and click on 'Control Panel'. Click on the 'System' icon and then the 'Advanced' tab. Click on the button that says 'Environment Variables' which should display a window with pre defined variables and their values.

[3/07 - I added Two (2x) new Examples for Visual Basic 6.0 (Codes should be usable in 5.0). Both examples are related to using two of the available system timers/counters. Since I have a few timer related examples for vb.net, I figured I would do the same for VB Classic. So one of these examples uses the GetTickCount API Function and the other example uses the timeGetTime API Function along with the timeBeginPeriod and timeEndPeriod API calls. The GetTickCount timer/counter supports about 15 ms resolutions, while the timeGetTime counter/timer supports up to 1 millisecond resolutions. Go to the VB - Examples page under Timing to check out the examples. I might make 1 or 2 more Timing related examples for the VB.COM (5.0/6.0) versions using a Very High sub-millisecond Resolution performance counter-timer(QueryPerformanceCounter) and possibly another on a super high resolution timer(RDSC).

[3/03 - I changed the download links to point to a different server because the .org download server is down and I don't know whats going on with it. Please send me a feedback message if you find any bad links.

[3/03 - I will most likely NOT be updating this old website designed pages with new content. There is actually a bit of new stuff on the newer design that is not available on these old pages. So goto the main http://www.vbcodesource.com webpage link which will load the newer website design.

[1/28 - I meant to post this along time ago but forgot too. Microsoft now has available all of the Visual Studio.NET 2008 Examples that were included with the RTM (Released To Manufacture) versions as a seperate download. There are actually very MANY examples available for Visual Basic 2008 that covers everything from Excel, Powerpoint to LINQ, Tablet Based Programming, Server based, and Database programming. While the examples may NOT open with VB 2005, the codes in many of the examples should work with Visual Basic 2005 as well. Obviously examples like LINQ based source code won't work with .NET 2005 since LINQ was not supported until VS 2008. Anyways, Click this Link if your interested. The download is alittle more than 9 MB, so if you have Dial-Up it may take awhile. :)

[1/05 - A example for VB.NET 2003 (2002 as well) and compatible with VB 2005, Visual Basic 2008 has been added. The example is how to do some basic Form/Application effects using API codes. Some of the animations is a Left to Right, Right to Left, Top to Bottom, and Bottom to Top directional effects. Some special effects is Blend, Roll, and Slide. You can also specify how fast or slow the effect will take place. At the .NET - Examples page.

[1/01 - A new Class Library named csCPUFeatures Library 1.0 and a Example on using the class control with VB.NET is available as well. This library uses the IsProcessorFeaturePresent API call and will let you know if the CPU supports 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, RDSC, Intel FPU Bug, MMX, and more. The source code and compiled class is under the DotNET - Controls page, and the example made with Visual Basic.NET is under the .NET - Examples page.

Year 2007 below

[12/29 - Two(2) new examples has been added, one for VB 5.0 and VB 6.0, and the other is for Visual Basic.NET. Both examples show how to change/set or manipulate all controls on a form without having to specifically write code for each of the controls. The examples will automatically go through each control on the form and Clear all Textbox controls and will also checkmark all checkbox type controls. Much easier and alot less code than if you manually set each of the controls properties!

[12/28 - A new example compatible with Visual Basic.NET through to Visual Basic 2008 has been added that shows how to display a Inputbox and setting the Input/Textbox to display as Password Characters. Its just like when you set a textbox controls passwordChar property to display astericks characters in place of the actual password characters. IT uses Subclassing and Window APIs like FindWindow, GetWindow, and SendMessage Functions. Under the VB.NET - Examples page.

[12/27 - Added a new program and example called csNotePadX 1.0 and it is supposed to be a better windows notepad. It is built around the textbox control and has every feature the windows notepad has and more. Has full printing, print preview, page setup support along with simple and advanced find/search and replace features. There is character casing, character alignment, and Font support as well. Under the Visual Basic.NET 2005/2008 - Example section.

[12/24 - A new v2.0 update to the csBrowserPlus Webbrowser Example for VB 2005 and Visual Basic 2008 has be posted. A major feature added from the v2.0 update is adding/editing/deleting your own custom favorites menu and will load and save on application load and exit. IT will dynamically create menu items under the favorites menu with the url as the title/text for each favorite you want to add. Check out the screenshot to see what I mean. There are a few other minor features as well, like selecting all/none text, open a new csBrowserPlus Window Clone or a default browser window like Internet Example or whatnot. Located on the: Visual Basic.NET - Examples page under the VB 05/08 section near the bottom of the page.

[12/19 - Another example for Visual Basic.NET has been added. This example is based on the VB 6.0 Chr Converter Example. Some minor code changes/tweaks has been made. This example will convert normal text to Chr based code. Example, the quote character " will be converted to Chr(34). In the VB.NET - Examples section.

[12/19 - A new example for Visual Basic.NET has been added that shows how to use delegates to create a callback to be used with the SetTimer and KillTimer Windows API Timer. The example simply has the callback fire a simply sub that will update the number of times windows called the callback and then display the results.

[12/16 - A new example for VB 5.0 and VB 6.0 has been added that shows how to give your Textbox and Combobox controls autocomplete capabilities. The example uses the SHAutocomplete API call and includes many different flags/options to tweak exactly how your want SHAutocomplete to react and what you want to be available in the list. This example includes extra code as well to enable autocomplete features to a combobox. :) Under the Visual Basic 5.0 / Visual Basic 6.0 - Examples page.

[12/15 - I've now added a basic calulator example for Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008. IT has your basic Addition/Subtraction/Multiplication/Division features. Some more features are Sign changing, Number Reciprocal, Round Values, Backspace, Clear, and more. The example is in the Visual Basic.NET - Examples section under VB 2005/VB2008.

[12/14 - The original Visual Basic 5.0 and VB 6.0 calculator example has been updated to v1.1. The update will now clear a previous calculation instead of adding the pressed number to the calculated value. Example: IF you press 1 + 1 and then the = button, it will display 2. But before this update if you pressed another number it would add to the previous number. If you pressed 3, then it would read 23. This update fixes that problem and will start a fresh calculation before adding the pressed number. A new 'Calculator' Example compatible with Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008 will be added shortly.

[12/12 - A new example has been added for Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual Basic 6.0. The example shows how to use some Windows APIs like: SetWindowRgn, CreateEllipticRgn, CreateRoundRectRgn, CreateRectRgn to create custom/abnormal shaped forms. The example sets the form as a Circle, Ellipse, and Rectangle using these API calls. In the VB Classic - Examples section.

[12/07 - Added a new example compatible with Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 that shows how to setup Username and Password protection in your applications. The example shows how to use Inputboxes and/or a Form to authenicate or allow a user to put in the proper Username and Password. Has a option for requiring Case Sensitive or Case Insensitive credentials. Located in the Visual Basic - Examples section for VB Classic.

[12/06 - A new example for Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 has been added that shows how to get the computers total cpu/processor usage percentage using the GetSystemTimes API call. The example gets the user time, kernel time, and idle time values from GetSystemTimes() and calculates those values as a percent value. The usage is based on ALL of the computers processor's and not just one of them. If you have 2x CPU's or Cores it will be the total across BOTH processors. Ex: If CPU/Core #1 is 100% percent usage and CPU/Core #2 is at 0% percent usage the total usage percentage would be 50%. Also the GetSystemTimes() API is not available until Windows XP with Service Pack 1 and above. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 and above is supported as well. I already have a example for Visual Basic.NET if you use VB.NET.

[12/02 - A new example made with Visual Basic.NET 2003 and usable with VB 2005 and VB 2008 that was based on the Visual Basic 6.0 version detects and displays the users last and latest system wide mouse and keyboard activity. Remember that the user could be at the computer reading or whatnot that doesn't require mouse or keyboard interaction.

[11/27 - Added a new example made with Visual Basic.NET 2003 and usable with Visual Basic 2005 through Visual Basic 2008 that will search a listbox and combobox control for specified strings with exact or partial find results.

[11/26 - The Address Book Database Example project for Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 has had a minor update. Removed some dead code and updated the Data Bar Control to where it will not look in the projects directory for the .mdb database address file. At the VB - Examples page.

[11/23 - A new example for Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 has been added that will check/get the last time the user was active on the computer. It uses the GetLastInputInfo API and retrieves the returned tickcount value and compares to the previous value to see if the user is active or not. Remember that just because there is no activity reported doesn't mean the user is away from the computer. They could be reading a webpage, article/document, and such. The Example is located under the: Visual Basic - Examples section. A dotNet (.net) version will be added later on.

[11/21 - The official Visual Studio 2008 RTMed Languages are now available!. Microsoft has posted the downloads for all of the Express Edition IDEs. Visual Basic 2008 has some new features that you may want to check out, including LINQ support. Click this link to goto the VB 2008 Express Editions downloads page. I also have for more info and links at this link to my VBForFree.com site. Unfortunately Microsofts download server was getting hammered when I downloaded earlier today. Hopefully it will get better as the day wears on. Have fun!

[11/20 - Added a new Example and Control that shows how to make a Fusion ComClass wrapper in VB 2005 and a Visual Basic 5/6 example. The com wrapper creates 2x functions that contains code to give Visual Basic Classic (5.0/6.0) easy Network Address Ping capabilities. One function returns true or false depending on whether the ping was successful and the other will return the time it took for the url to reply. The Fusion Pinging Wrapper is under the Visual Basic.NET - Controls; section and the example is under the Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 - Examples; page. The target computer must have the dotnet framework installed for this wrapper to work.

[11/19 - I mentioned that the csTextBoxX Control has been updated to version 1.1 but it somehow got lost and therefore was not available to download. I have since restored it back to the .NET Controls and 02/03 Examples pages. Version 1.1 brings a new feature to Search the Textbox control text.

[11/15 - There were even more downloads missing than I originally thought. I "Hope" I have everything right. PLEASE let me know if the news/update page says a download/example or whatever has been added but you can't find it on the site. That would really help out!

[11/15 - I have no idea on what happened but the Examples pages and such were missing MANY downloads. Especially the Visual Basic.NET and 2005/2008 Examples. SysMonLite, csMiniMeter, Writing Pad, RichText Example, csMusicLibrary and MUCH more has been added. THANKFULLY, my .org site had the downloads or I would not have had them to update. I guess a old backup replaced the new?? Oh well, I would suggest you check out ALL of the pages to see what you may have missed. Sorry about this :)

[11/14 - I added a new example made with Visual Basic.NET 02/03 that shows how to do simple subclassing to move a borderless form that does not have the normal titlebar. Thankfully Subclassing is alot easier to do in dotnet then it was in VB 6.0 :) Remember that VB 05/08 should have no problems running older .net projects.

[11/09 - A new example for Visual Basic 5.0 and/or Visual Basic 6.0 has been added that shows how to get some lower-level based memory information using the GetSystemPerformance API call along with the PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION data structure I found at Microsoft MSDN and converted from C++ to VB. IT can give you various system memory based info like - Kernel Paged/Non Paged/Total, Commit Charge based info, Physical Memory info, Handle/Process/Thread totals, System Cache and more. Located under the: Visual Basic - Examples page.

[11/06 - The csWindowsShutdown Library has been updated to Version 1.4. The new update brings a couple tweaks to the code/comments and a new feature that will display the: "System Setting Change" dialog along with a "The system must restart before the settings will take place" message. You can also add your own message with the default dialog message. The example for this library has been updated as well. The example was made with VB.NET 2003 but remember older .NET codes/programs can be used with VB 2005 and VB 2008 as well! Have fun :)

[11/04 - You may have noticed some small changes made to the site. I plan to do more in the future as well. Even moving to a completely new design when possible.

[10/28 - A new example has been added for Visual Basic 5.0 and VB 6.0 that will Shutdown, Reboot, and Log Off ALL versions of Windows including 2000/XP using the ExitWindowsEx API function. If you've ever tried using ExitWindowsEx in 2000/XP/Vista and it wouldn't work, then check out this example to see why :) It is located under the: VB 5.0/6.0 - Examples page.

[10/11 - Added a new example for Visual Basic.NET 2005/2008(or simply Visual Basic 2005 and 2008 which I think is the official name now anyways). The example is how to Send EMail using the SMTPClient Class in the .NET Framework(DotNET). IT also shows how you can use your GMail account as the Host to send your mails. The example has the normal: To, From, Subject, Body/Message, and Attachment features. Its actually VERY easy to send mail with VB 05/08 and should be easy to understand and follow...

[10/07 - In case you haven't heard yet, Microsoft has decided to release the source code to the .net (Dot Net) libraries. This is actually a pretty big jump for Microsoft. There is a Reference license you must ahere to though. Click this link to check out the blog post for one of the team leaders at Microsoft on this release...

[10/07 - Added a new example for Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 2005/2008 that will get the color of a pixel where the mouse cursor is positioned at. Located on the VB.NET 02/03/05/08 - Examples page.

[09/17 - Added a new small Utility called csCPUMiniMeter v1.1 that will monitor and display your computers total cpu system usage and along with your memory usage. Displays via progress bars and a graphical display similar to the way Windows Task Manager displays the usage in a graph. The program is available under the: Software section and the source code to it is under the: Visual Basic.NET 2005 - Examples section near the bottom of the page.

[09/07 - If you haven't checked out my expansion/extension page: Code Source - Links and Tips in awhile, I did many updates to the site within the last week or 2. Added a article on the Counters and Timers available for VB programmers (GetTickCount/timeGetTime/QueryPerformanceCounter/RDTSC), all of the VB 5.0/6.0 Code Snippets/Articles/Fusion resources. Also other various links and resources for Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 2005. Click Here to go to the Links and Tips page!

[08/02 - Microsoft has now released "Beta 2" of their new Orcas languages. They have the Express, Standard,Professional, and ect... editions available for download. . Click Here

[07/26 - I added a new cool little program to the software section and the source code to it that will monitor and display your computers total cpu/processor system usage in the system tray. It will show actual numbers in the tray. It contains a right click context menu with various options. This program is a system tray app only, no form interface. If you want the code for this, It is available in the Visual Basic.NET 2005 - Examples page. :)

[07/20 - I recently finished up a new expansion site with tips, answers, articles, links and more for Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 2005. Click here to check it out. And just a reminder my new site design in nearly done and contains most of the content this site has. You can start going to it at This Link..

[06/07 - I will eventually phase out the design of this site to the new design. I won't change it over until the new design is completely finished though. You can start going to it at This Link..

[06/07 - My new site design is nearing completion! Go check it out at this Link!!.

[05/15 - Added a new update to my csTextboxX control to Version 1.1. The new version brings a new function to search the controls text for a certain string/letter/text with various search properties like Match Case. Some code has also been cleaned up. This project is almost done with but I have one or two more features in mind as updates. The compiled control and source is under: Visual Basic.NET - Controls, and the Example is under: Visual Basic.NET - 2002/2003 Examples.

[05/10 - Feedback is currently using a guestbook script and it works. It will be changed to normal once the mail form gets fixed. Thanks

[04/30 - The feedback option isn't working for some reason. I will continue to work on it. So, don't use that feature yet.

[04/22 - Added a new site feature for sending feedback. The feedback/email link is located on the left menu at the bottom just under Contact. I also removed a dead link that was on the left menu.

[03/24 - Microsoft is at it again! That is, giving away FREE stuff. Here is the Link with all of the Info. You MUST meet certain requirements though to cash-in on this promotion. You need to be a professional developer employed in the developer field and be in the United States. You need to go to the Microsoft website to see all of the requirements and restrictions. They DO have some nice LabCasts. A few are on Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET 2005 stuff. Which should help alot of people out who are wanting to make the switch to Visual Basic 2005. Enjoy!

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For a limited time, attend Visual Basic 2005 Labcasts and you will be eligible for one or more of the following incentives:

Visual Basic.NET 2005 Updates - Code Snippets

Check if a File or Directory Exists 


Check if the Computer is Connected to the Network  


Clear the Windows Clipboard 


Copy, Create, Delete, and Rename a Directory  


Copy and Paste (Get/Set) Text to the Clipboard 


Download File from Internet to Hard Drive 


Get the Computers Display Resolution 


Get the Amount of Free(Available) Physical and Virtual Memory  


Get the Computers Total Physical (Ram) and Virtual Memory 


Get the Operating Systems - Full Name, Platform, and Version  


Ping the specified Url/Address 


Play/Stop a Specified Wave File and System Sound  



I 'think' thats all of the code snippets and the right titles. Hopefully you will find some of these new snippets helpful.

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Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 Updates - Code Snippets

Check for a specified String in a String 


Check if Class/Object needs new instance or if its disposed, ect  


Disable the 'Beep' in a Textbox when pressing the 'Enter' Key 


Find/Search for a String in Listbox/Combobox control  


Open a URL/Webpage in the Default Web Browser 


That is all of the 2002/2003 code snippets that I can remember.


Visual Basic.NET 2002/2003 Updates - Examples

CPU Usage Example - A basic example of easily retrieving the value for the cpu's usage. Displays the exact usage value 
or the integer portion only.


Thats the only 2002/2003 Example that I can remember.


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Visual Basic.NET 2005 Updates - Code Snippets

Check if a String contains a specified String 


Check if your Class/Object needs a new instance or is disposed  


Disable that 'Beep' in the Textbox control when pressing the 'Enter' Key. [Method #1] 


Disable that 'Beep' in the Textbox control when pressing the 'Enter' Key. [Method #2]  


Only allow Numbers in a TextBox Control 


Open a Webpage/Url with the default Webbrowser 


Thats all of the fairly recent 2005 snippets that I remember.


Visual Basic.NET 2005 Updates - Examples

Application Interaction using SendKey Controls - A very small and basic example of using sendkeys to interact with a 
application in another process. 


Audio/Video Direct X 9.0 Example - A fairly in-depth example of using the Audio/Video objects in the DX9 library. It 
shows you to use DX9 for your normal media playback and a few different interface feature.  


CPU Usage and Data Example - A fairly extensive example of how to use Visual Basic.NET 2005 to use Performance Counters 
and the Windows Registry to retrieve various information and statistics on a computers cores/processors.  


csBrowserPlus WebBrowser Example - This is a fairly complete example of how to make your own custom and advanced 
WebBrowser using the new managed WebBrowser control in version 2.0 of the DotNetFramework.  


MP3 ID3 v1.0 Tag and Wave Header Reader Classes - with Example - This example includes a MP3 ID3 v1.0 Tag Class to get 
the MP3 tag data, and Wave Header Extraction Class to get the data from the Wave File header (bytesPerSecond, sampleRate, ect..) 



Thats it for the Visual Basic 2005 Examples as far as I can remember.

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[11/07 - Microsoft has now released the Express Editions of Visual Studio.Net 2005.

And one of the best parts is that you can download all of the express editions completely FREE for 1yr. 

Evidentally, what this means is that the Express editions will be available for download for 1yr, but you can continue using 
the software forever. Only the download for 'Express Edition Software' is only available for 1yr.

This release of the Express Additions includes: 

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express 
Visual Basic 2005 Express 
Visual C# 2005 Express 
Visual C++ 2005 Express 
Visual J# 2005 Express 
SQL Server Express 

Below are links to download EVERYone of the MSDN Express Edition downloads available.

I'm sure that most from visiting this site will download Visual Basic :)

Anyways, below are the links of interest for this software release.

The MSDN Forum post announcing the release.

Download for - Visual Basic 2005 - Express
Download for: Visual C# 2005 - Express
Download for: Visual C++ 2005 - Express
Download for: Visual J# 2005 - Express
Download for: Visual Web Developer 2005 - Express 
Download for: SQL Server Express

Hope this post proved useful to you! I will continue to post more info and such as I find it. -Jason

I will be looking over this release of Visual Basic 2005 and see what changes/additions and such has taken place and if 
anything is worth mentioning I will let you know what I found out. :)
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