Ok, first a disclaimer: I'm a Microsoft MVP with a competency in Visual Basic. Normally I would not give this much thought, I've always favored VB (I started using it back when it was in version 3) over all other languages and thought very little of the debates that went on online comparing it...
Line and Shape controls, PrintForm component, and Printer Compatibility LibraryMicrosoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs 2.0 includes a new set of Line and Shape controls and updated versions of the two previously released Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs, the PrintForm Component and the Printer Compatibility...
Hey, all you Facebook fans out there, Microsoft and Facebook have launched a partnership and Microsoft has released a 'Facebook Developer Toolkit' which allows you to create applications for Facebook using Microsoft Popfly and Visual Studio Express. You can even create a Windows Forms application...
New releases from Microsoft for all you developers out there: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 .Net Framework 3.5 Beta 2, and SilverLight 1.0 Release Candidate Happy downloading! Links: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx Bashar Lulu / MVP...
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I just came back from Friday prayer, my kids are out with their Aunt (probably at McDonald's), my wife's in the kitchen prepping something up for lunch, so I have the study room all to myself. I went in, and instead of firing up my laptop, I logged on to my desktop, which I don't usually...
Ever since it introduced Visual Basic .Net some six years ago, Microsoft has been striving to have developers jump the VB6 wagon and onto the .Net one. Being a VB6er myself I can sympathize with all those who still find it difficult to do so. Migrating VB6 code to VB .Net is at best, a helluva task....
Back in the VB6 days, when creating applications that required specific settings unique to a particular machine (such as screen sizes, fonts or even connection strings), I used to use either an INI file or the registry for storing these settings. A few days ago, when writing an application on .Net v2...
When creating applications, there sometimes comes the need to use interfaces. An 'interface' is one of the types available in the VB .Net language (and for that matter almost all other OO languages). Interfaces are perhaps one of the most difficult types to explain. Most writeups or articles explain...
Over time, the number of .Net languages has increased drastically. In addition to the languages provided by Microsoft there is a very large number of new languages being added everyday. Don't believe me, check it out yourself; http://www.dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx . Now, each of these languages...