Whilst chatting with twawsico from the newsgroup I found out he had converted the sample framework to VB.Net. We did some testing by making the c# samples run against it and it seems to work for them.

twawsico has also converted CustomUI and Simple Animation, and I chipped in with Text3D.

If you are interested in contributing, send me an email telling which you are going to do so that we don't get overlap. See the readme for the convertor tools we used - their quality varies so there is some fix up to do after the fact. Text3D took me about 2 hours to fix up but over half of that was my limited VB.Net knowledge.

May 1st, 2005 - I've made a handful of minor changes and fixed up the projects and solutions if you are using VB.Net 2005 (including Express).

Download VBSamples.zip for VB.Net 2003

Download VBSamples2005.zip for VB.Net 2005

Managed DirectX April SDK samples in VB.Net
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Downloaded from http://www.thezbuffer.com

Conversions by:
twawsico (twawsico@hotmail.com) - sample framework, customUI, Simple Animation
Zman (zman@thezbuffer.com) - Text3D

With help from 
C# to VB Convertors
http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx
and
Instant VB http://www.instantvb.com/index.htm

Copyright etc
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The concept and original code remain Microsoft copyright - we just converted to VB.Net
Microsoft will NOT support these so don't try.
We will try to support them as best we can, but nobody pays us to do it.
If you find a bug email zman@thezbuffer.com and we'll fix it up 

Instructions
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***IMPORTANT***
The Zip files does not contain any of the media from the SDK. You must copy this 
from the SDK into the Media folder

The solutions should run from the directories they are in. 
If you want to make your own you will need to copy them by hand, include the common 
directory and any media that the sample requires.
There is no support to view or install these from the SDK sample browser