Microsoft - ActiveMovie SDK Documentation Best of the Net
Better than your average Microsoft page! This one is hard to find since it doesn't come up simply searching at Microsoft's main MSDN page. Loaded with lots of techie details, this one will take you more than five minutes to read!

Tutorial - Using Direct3D with VB
The first of a series of articles that explains how to use Direct3D in Visual Basic. Covers a lot of detailed coding since that's what you need to know when you use DirectDraw.

Getting Started - Introduction to Direct Draw
A straightforward explanation of a main game technology for VB programmers, 'DirectDraw'. This is the 2D component of directX and it allows you to gain direct access to the memory on the video card. Although this is an introduction to the DirectDraw technology, you need some programming experience to get the most from this page.

Us VB Code to play WAV files from Audio CD
If you need to play Audio CD's from within Visual Basic code (for example, if you plan to distribute your VB game on a CD ROM), this code example shows you the way to go.

Using the Microsoft Multimedia control
A short article and example code showing how to use the MMControl to play any music file such as MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA in VB.

Microsoft - The Multimedia Control
A portion of a Steven Holzner book, this short article at MSDN provides details and code for using MMControl in a VBScript environment.

Tip! - VB.NET - Creating a Thumbnail of an Image
Creating a thumbnail of a graphic is a frequent and useful technique in many multimedia applications. Here's a short, code-packed tip that shows you how this is done in VB.NET.