VB NEWS & INFORMATION
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VB NEWS & INFORMATION
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VB.NET versus Java versus C# "Adrian" wrote in to ask: "Some people tell me VB.NET is bound to disappear, and that C# or Java are better. What do you recommend?" I haven't answered this question in a... |
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Data Binding using WPF and XAML Get the data for one control from a different one ... Part 4 of our series on WPF and XAML tells you how to code "markup extensions" in XAML so... |
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Programming a WPF and XAML Application For those who might not have heard yet, the traditional "Windows Form" is going away. Someday... Microsoft's direction is to gradually replace Windows Forms with WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation. This isn't... |
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Printing from VB.NET VB.NET has direct and easy to use support for printing using the System.Drawing.Printing namespace. In addition, if you run into an InvalidPrinterException in Windows XP or an AccessViolationException in Vista,... |
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ImageList: Project a Good Image When Using VB.NET The ImageList control has been a feature of Visual Basic since VB6 days. But most people don't use it, probably because it's just not clear to many programmers what the... |
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Start Something! Using Process.Start in VB.NET Process.Start is the .NET way to start another program executing in Visual Basic .NET. It's a lot different than the Shell command that was used in VB6.... |
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Join, Arrays, and CSV files I've previously written about how handy the Split function is in the article, Amazing Splits. But I recently discovered that the companion function, Join can be pretty useful too. In the... |
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Demystifying Random Numbers Microsoft provides good support for random numbers in Visual Basic .NET. The problem, as in so many other parts of VB.NET, is in understanding the documentation they provide. So I've... |
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Using Namespaces - Namespaces keep VB.NET organized Namespaces keep Visual Basic .NET organized. .NET by itself is huge and the names of individual software objects frequently overlap. Add in the code that all of the .NET programmers... |
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Tim Patrick's Programming Visual Basic 2008 It's a fun read! Here's another review hot on the heels of my review of Murach's latest VB.NET book (below). I thought these two books were an interesting contrast to each... |
