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Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event
... and the About Visual Basic GOB (Glossary of Buzzwords) In the spirit of "Life is short, eat desert first!" - here are the facts: In Las Vegas at the Bellagio April 12...
Sell Your Code and Make Money?
Ummmmm ... Maybe An About Visual Basic reader, a doctor in a hospital, recently sent an email asking about selling a program she and her husband wrote to make her job...
Opportunistic Development versus Systematic Development
Is there a "tension"? What do we do about it? As part of a project I'm working on, I ran across this statement in the Microsoft Architecture Journal from authors Donald...
Dependency Properties in WPF
How to determine whether a property is a WPF "Dependency Property". A property must be a "dependency property" for a lot of WPF operations. But how can you be sure which...
Changing Font Properties in VB.NET
VB6, Windows Forms, and WPF - They're all different! A reader asked how to write the Visual Basic code for a Bold, Underline and Italic checkbox. It should be dead easy,...
Addressing a Single Cell in a WPF Grid
It's a lot harder than it should be ... right now. A couple of years ago (Before LINQ to XML), I wrote an example program using the DOM syntax Microsoft provided...
WPF Markup Extension Classes
Where did Microsoft hide the documentation this time? About Visual Basic is featuring lots of content about WPF because you may see Windows Forms in the obituary notices any day now....
WordBasic Lives!
They won't support VB6, but you can run Office macro code from 1995! A reader in the forum recently asked a question involving an early macro language for Microsoft Word called...
Sum an "Hours and Minutes" Time Column in Excel
I have a business relationship with someone who sends me an Excel spreadsheet with a column of time amounts formatted as "hours and minutes" like this ... 15 min 1 hr 1 hr...
WPF is a Version 0.9 Product
Don't get me wrong. I, and every other programmer I've actually talked to about it, think that WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation - is one of the most amazing technologies...




























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