You can hide a variable by *shadowing* it, that is, by redefining it with a variable of the same name. You can shadow the variable you want to hide in two ways: - **Shadowing Through Scope.** You can ...

A derived class inherits all the definitions of its base class. If you want to define a variable using the same name as an element of the base class, you can hide, or *shadow*, that base class element ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

I call GetSubMenu by saying <BR><BR>GetSubMenu(hMainMenu, i)<BR><BR>and it won't work. i is an integer, with, say, 0 in it. If I call it through<BR><BR>GetSubMenu(hMainMenu, 0)<BR><BR>Then it works ...

Goto statements, whether they're used in Visual Basic or C#, can be confounding as to their purpose in some contexts. The Goto statement in both Visual Basic and C# seems like an amazing tool for ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

I have VB6 and CR9. I can open a Crystal Reports report from VB and can even use VB to do an SQL query and hand off the record set to Crystal Reports for use in a report. <BR><BR>What I can't figure ...

A variable's name is known as an identifier. The identifier given to a variable usually follows certain rules known as a naming convention: It can contain letters and numbers but must start with a ...