Visual Basic
Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using DAO, RDO, or ADO, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
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Delegates, new in Visual Basic .NET, are type-safe, object-oriented references to methods. By using delegates, you make your methods accessible to others and therefore more extensible. This article...
Visual Basic .NET offers its users, among many other things, a fully object-oriented programming (OOP) experience. Some former VB6 developers have prepared themselves well to embrace this new version...
It seems with every new release of Visual Studio we get a new data access method. DAO, RDO, ADO...and now ADO.NET. Well, this version of Visual Studio not only introduces ADO.NET, but also the SQL...
In last week's article I showed you some of the basic principles of exposing properties and methods in user controls. As we left off I mentioned that you could work with properties and methods...
Microsoft introduced ADO.NET together with the .NET Framework. This new data access object is built upon the .NET Framework. When you install the .NET Framework on your machine, two .NET providers...
This article demonstrates how to create a new macro project in Visual Basic .NET, and then record a simple macro that inserts a TODO token into the code and subsequently opens the Task List window to...
This article demonstrates how to use an ActiveX component from within Visual Studio .NET by using Visual Basic .NET.
This article demonstrates how to marshal an object by reference to a remote server. When you marshal an object by reference, the runtime creates a transparent proxy so that the server can make calls...
This step-by-step procedure demonstrates how to create a client that accesses a remote server. This client can be located on the same computer, on a different computer, or on a different network....
The Microsoft .NET Framework includes many useful classes for networking, including the ability to make Web requests. This article demonstrates how to make a simple GET request to retrieve a Web page...
This article demonstrates how to use the XmlTextReader class to read Extensible Markup Language (XML) from a URL. The streamed information can come from a variety of sources, such as a byte stream...
ADO+ is the new set of data access services for the .NET Framework. ADO+ is a natural evolution of ADO, built around n-tier development and architected with XML at its core. This article presents the...
Recently there was a discussion related to DataSet’s HasChanges
and GetChanges methods. This article discusses the basics of
DiffGrams and how DiffGram format is utilized by a DataSet to
in...
A well-designed application that uses a relational database management system in the backend should make extensive use of stored procedures. A stored procedure is a named collection of SQL...
This article is an unedited part of Chapter 11: Working with
ODBC .NET Data Provider from A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in
C# book. This chapter teaches you how to work with various data...
