Patrick Meader speaks the truth in his Editor's Note, "Is VB Least Among Equals?" (April 2008). Most SDKs that Microsoft releases seems to be lacking VB samples, to the point that even the exceptions ...

VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much ...

I have a windows service written in VB.NET which uses DSOFile.dll to look at the properties of a MSOffice document. Everything seems to work fine for me here.<BR><BR>But on my client's machine, it ...