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Building a News Ticker Using VB.Net
By: R. Abhiram Vikrant
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    2003-10-31

    Table of Contents:
  • Building a News Ticker Using VB.Net
  • Why XML?
  • Application Basics
  • Code
  • Conclusion

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    Building a News Ticker Using VB.Net
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    In this latest article, Vikrant shows us how to create a news ticker using VB.Net and XML technologies.

    In this article we are going to see how to create a scrolling text effect, otherwise known as a news ticker, using VB.Net. The ticker tape app looks like the one below:

    This application mainly depends on the timer and an xml file. A timer is used to trigger the drawstring event at a specified interval, whereas the XML file holds the text to be scrolled.

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