VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

Application Class

Namespace

System.Windows.Forms

Createable

No

Description

The Application object provides a diverse range of functionality, including support for multithreaded programming, access to the system registry, and support for subclassing (intercepting messages sent to application windows). It also includes a variety of informational functions, such as properties to retrieve the company name, to retrieve the application’s executable path, and to retrieve the application’s name and version.

Application objects can be created as follows:

Dim obj As Application

However, because all of the Application object’s members are shared, you do not need to instantiate the Application object to access its properties and methods. Hence, you can retrieve the executable path of your application, for instance, with the code fragment:

Dim sPath As String = Application.ExecutablePath

Application class members marked with a plus sign (+) are discussed in detail in their own entries.

Public Properties

AllowQuit

CommonAppDataPath

CommonAppDataRegistry

CompanyName +

CurrentCulture

CurrentInputLanguage

ExecutablePath +

LocalUserAppDataPath

MessageLoop

ProductName +

ProductVersion +

SafeTopLevelCaptionFormat

StartupPath

UserAppDataPath

UserAppDataRegistry

Public Shared Methods

AddMessageFilter

DoEvents +

Exit

ExitThread

OleRequired

OnThreadException

RemoveMessageFilter

Run

Public Shared Events

ApplicationExit

Idle

ThreadException

ThreadExit

See Also

Application.CompanyName Property, Application.DoEvents Method, Application.ExecutablePath ...