In my recent article, "Is Visual Studio LightSwitch the New Access?", I looked at the suitability of LightSwitch as a replacement tool for departmental applications developed in Microsoft Access.

How C# and Visual Basic handle characters and single-character strings is a bit inconsistent. There's no tidy solution, but it's something you do need to know. Characters are the size zero of the .NET ...

I'm just learning Visual Basic in college right now, and I've searched the web everywhere, but I can't seem to find an answer for this. Just using code (no .exe compressors), how can I keep string ...