Visual Basic Rocks TechNet Wiki!!!

First of all, check out my interview with our top Visual Basic Guru gold medal winner:

Interview with a Wiki Ninja, MVP, and Visual Basic Guru - Reed Kimble

   

Check out the TechNet Guru winning articles for Visual Basic...

TechNet Guru Contributions - Visual Basic

 

And here's the impact in 2013...

2013

December 2013

• Declaring numeric data types by Paul Ishak   - Bronze medal winner
• Don't Throw Out the System Brushes by HomeGrownCoder - Silver medal winner
• expandable properties - ColorEditor by .paul. 
• Prime Number Sieve by Dewayne Basnett - Gold medal winner

November 2013

• Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net by Reed Kimble    - Gold medal winner
• hangMan by .paul. 
• Shapes - Areas + Volumes by .paul.   - Silver medal winner

October 2013

• char Combinations by .paul. _ 
• How to Draw a Border of ASCII Text in a Console Application by Reed Kimble   - Gold medal winner
• How to Write to a Console Window without Wrapping Text by Reed Kimble   - Bronze medal winner
• Multipoint with the Kinect part I by The Thinker   - Silver medal winner

September 2013

• VerticalLabel Control by .paul.   - Bronze medal winner
• Maths Revision V1.0 by  .paul.   - Silver medal winner
• VB.NET: Have you Ever Wanted an Oval, Triangle, a Pentagon, a Hexagon or an Octagon for a Control or a Form? by John Anthony Oliver - Gold medal winner

August 2013

• Workaround - Visual Basic/C# WebBrowser DBLClick Word by Paul Ishak  
• Convert System.Decimal to and from Byte Arrays (VB & C#) by Paul Ishak  
• Become More Productive by Making Custom Code Generation Tools(VB & C#) by Paul Ishak    - Silver medal winner
• How to Get the Textual Representation of a Number (Convert Number to Words) in VB.Net by Reed Kimble   - Gold medal winner
• searchableComboBox Control by .paul. - Bronze medal winner

July 2013

• Knife Thrower! by Paul Ishak - Silver medal winner
• Binary and Back by The Thinker  - Bronze medal winner
• How to Handle a Huge Collection of Strings in VB.Net by Reed Kimble  - Gold medal winner
• Evaluating Expressions by Paul Ishak  
• Drive Searcher by Paul Ishak

June 2013

• How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net by Reed Kimble - Gold medal winner
• Bitmap.Lockbits De-Mystified .Net by Paul Ishak  - Silver medal winner

May 2013

• How to Create Video Games in VB.Net (Windows Forms) - by Reed Kimble - Gold medal winner
• How to convert a 32bit integer into a color - by Paul Ishak - Silver medal winner
• Virtual memory in Visual Basic.Net - by Paul Ishak - Bronze medal winner

 

Thanks to Naomi, Maheshkumar, and Carsten for compiling those lists for us!

   - Ninja Ed

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 09, 2014
  Great list. I'm very grateful to VB, learned a lot with this language

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2014
  Thanks, Durval! That's great to know!