You can use Chameleon's Stubcode Generation Wizard to generate application stubcode from the VMD file you created in the previous step.

To generate stubcode for your application:

• In Chameleon, select Stubcode from the toolbar. The Stubcode Generation Wizard appears:

• In the Prefix field, specify a string that will be prepended to certain class names in the code. This ensures that the classes generated for the stubcode do not have name conflicts with existing classes. This tutorial uses a prefix of vbnet.server.HL7.

	Specifying vbnet.server.HL7 as the prefix means that a directory named vbnet is created in the directory containing the VMD file. This directory contains a server subdirectory, which in turn contains an HL7 directory. This HL7 directory contains the files created by the stubcode generation process. The last part of the prefix (the part after the final period) is used in some of the file and class names generated by the subcode generation process. In this example, this is HL7.

• From the Language drop-down menu, select Visual Basic .NET - Visual Studio .NET 2005.

• From the Project Type drop-down menu, select Stubcode.

• Click Generate to create the stubcode.

• An information box appears, warning you that you are about to overwrite any existing stubcode. Click Yes to continue.

• View the Progress bar to track the progress of the stubcode generation. The stubcode generation is complete when the Progress bar is filled and the message Done! is displayed in the wizard's information panel.

• Click Close to close the window when done.

This stubcode generation process creates the following files:

• A DLL file for the stubcode;
• A subdirectory containing code files for each of the classes generated in the stubcode.

The next step is to import the DLL file for the stubcode and the Chameleon library DLL file into your VB.NET application.