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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When developing for .NET one can use any number of languages COBOL, Visual Basic, C, and C#. The question is what is best? Well personally I use C#. I was traditionally a Visual Basic programmer and...
Here's the code to render a DataGrid with a DropDownList in an ItemTemplate when the row is in edit mode. This How To is from a presentation I did for the Chicago .NET User Group's A Daya of .NET,...
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...
DataSet objects, a key part of data access in the Microsoft .NET Framework, are in-memory objects that can hold tables, views, and relationships. This article shows how to fill a DataSet object with...
DataSet objects, a key part of data access in the Microsoft .NET Framework, are in-memory objects that can hold tables, views, and relationships. This article demonstrates how to take a DataSet that...
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....
This article describes how to use the cryptography classes that are provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework. You can use the cryptography classes to encrypt a text file to an unreadable state. Then,...
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...
My co-workers cringe when I tell them the truth. What XML parser are you using? MSXML? With Perl? You've gotta be crazy. Yes, it's true, but I couldn't help myself. After test driving MSXML in a...
There is a proliferation of date/time formats on the internet,
egged on by competing standards, setup by various international
standards organizations. These dates appears in email message...
