Drill down on how arrays work and learn some cool tips and tricks for taking advantage of them in .NET.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2008
Use .NET's inheritance or extensibility to improve VB's textbox layout.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 06/01/2008
Use PInvoke to take advantage of Windows APIs that aren't part of the .NET Framework.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2008
Learn how to minimize inherent inaccuracies with Singles and Doubles when performing comparisons; learn how to use extensions, a .NET 3.5 feature, when targeting .NET 2.0 apps; and learn why you should avoid using Names that are used in a type you are extending.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 03/01/2008
VB 2008 includes some terrific new XML functionality that will make you both more effective and more productive when working with XML in your applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 01/01/2008
The VB IDE is a terrifically productive development environment out of the box. But it can be a lot better still. Learn how to customize the IDE for better productivity and performance.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 12/01/2007
Take advantage of the new PipeStream classes and XML features in .NET 3.5 and VB9 to resolve the age-old problem of creating a single-instance application.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2007
Learn the details on the new anonymous types and nullable type features in VB 9 (VB 2008).
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2007
Extension methods bring together old and new ways of working with data, and open doors to new language opportunities.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 09/01/2007
Determine whether an existing variable is a generic type and whether you have to use reflection in particular cases; create irregularly shaped forms; and enable remoting with single-instance applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 06/01/2007
Extension methods bring together old and new ways of working with data, and open the doors to new language opportunities.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2007
VB's My.Settings class makes it easy for you to remember user-preferred settings; also, what a quirky result in VB's debug window reveals about how its compiler and the .NET runtime work together.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2007