Application Class

Application Class

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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 Property, Application.ProductName Property, Application.ProductVersion Property