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 ...

You control the availability of a variable by specifying its *access level*. The access level determines what code has permission to read or write to the variable. - *Member variables* (defined at ...

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 ...

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 ...