I'm about build my next database, and I need to decide on a .Net language. I've been using Access for a few years, and have gotten as far as using Access Data Projects with Sql Server. The next step ...

Two members of Microsoft's Windows Forms dev team appeared in a Channel 9 video on "Supporting VB.NET" in .NET 5," a task that in some ways poses "a huge challenge." Specifically, one such aspect is ...

Microsoft's .NET computing framework stands poised to help you speed test application development. With Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft's .NET programming package), you can write distributed ...

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 ...

Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic. More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have ...

What are we going to do with all this Visual Basic? If you’re a project manager with a portfolio of Visual Basic applications to maintain, that’s no idle question. Microsoft’s newest version of its ...

Hey guys...<BR><BR>Subject pretty much says it all. I need to completely shut down a process in VB .NET. I did this before with a VB 6 proggie, but we're moving to ...

[FEBRUARY 25, 2003/ADT'S PROGRAMMERS REPORT] - Threading often seems the game of C programmers, one in which Visual Basic adherents are relegated to the sidelines. With .NET, that is changing. This is ...

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