In my "other" life, I'm a writer. I was recently thinking about books that have been bypassed by the march of time such as 1984 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. When they were written, their dates were far into the future. Now, they're artifacts of history. The idea of using Visual Basic to write an "eternal" story that would always be current came to me, so I did it. In addition to the VB code, how do you like the story?
If you're interested in calling Microsoft Word from VB.NET, both to display the updated text of the story and for date and time calculations, this program might be of interest to you. In addition, the interface is WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) rather than Windows Forms based. It's also written using VB.NET 2008 Express Edition.
Read the "Eternal Story" here!
If you're more interested in the programming, Click Here to see how the code works.