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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I think we can say that VB.NET finally made it to ASP.NET Core," developer Mohammed Hamdy Ghanem told Visual Studio Magazine about his new open-source project. The project, eShopOnWeb in VB.NET (.NET ...

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 ...

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