Microsoft's .NET computing framework stands poised to help you speed test application development. With Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft's .NET programming package), you can write distributed ...

I agree completely with Rockford Lhotka's conclusions in his Guest Opinion, "Software Is Too Darn Hard" [VSM April 2006]. It seems obvious, if commonly ignored in large companies, that the development ...

I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

Keyboard shortcut keys let you allow commands to run after users press a key combination. You use the VB.NET "keydown" event handler to detect that a key was pressed by a user, and create your ...

Learn the best way to combine strings in VB.NET Your email has been sent Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also ...

In VBA for access 2000, it was really easy to prevent someone from entering a value that was not in the list. In the combobox's properties, you just change the "LIMIT TO LIST" property to ...