After years neglecting the VB6 community, Microsoft seems to be missing something. Us!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/27/2009
After using a given API for a decade or more, you tend to just take it for granted that it works. Karl Peterson shows how he worked around a challenge when it didn't.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 10/13/2009
ASK KATHLEEN: Readers explore Managed Extensibility Framework, using callback delegates and how to create the equivalent of a C# partial interface in Visual Basic.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2009
ON VB: Four ways to synchronize threads with your app's user interface.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2009
REVIEW: DevExpress CodeRush 9.2 is a powerful productivity booster for .NET developers that includes the Refactor! Pro tools from Developer Express.
Tired of wondering which version of dumpbin or link is executing? Would you like to copy that tool you use all the time to another machine, but can't seem to find it? Here's a little utility that can help.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 09/22/2009
The difference between a successful program and a complete flop may come down to how you treat your users. Here's one simple way to avoid needlessly annoying your users.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/25/2009
Creating and persisting new environment variables can be surprisingly tricky in Classic VB. Here's how to avoid a common trap.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/18/2009
ClassicVB was created in a pre-Mousewheel era, hard as that may be to conceive. Here’s how you can watch for, and react to, the user spinning that now-ubiquitous device.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 08/11/2009
Subclass multiple controls with a single class module to add the missing MouseEnter and MouseLeave events.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/28/2009
Windows XP offers a much-improved method to subclass windows. Is it the right call for you to make?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 07/16/2009
64-bit-capable machines are everywhere. It's time you start thinking about 64-bit support as you develop your Visual Basic applications.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2009
Is the open source IDE for cross-platform .NET development a viable alternative to Visual Studio 2008?
- By Krystyna Rosicka-Blonska
- 07/01/2009
Visual Studio Magazine gives a rundown of AVIcode's Intercept uX, Mykonos' 1.0 AJAX security framework, and Borland's TeamDefine.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
There's only one add-in that I have auto-loaded every time I fire up the Classic VB IDE. After disappearing from the market, it's back now, and it's free!
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/15/2009
Need to recreate that olde-timey Terminal look? There's a stock object built into every version of Windows that'll serve that need.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 06/02/2009
As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/02/2009
Here's the least complicated method for determining how long a given process has been running or how much CPU time it's actually consumed. This technique is used here to establish how long Windows has been running.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/05/2009
Need to extract binary data from the registry? Here's a quick primer on reading and interpreting structures stored there.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 04/20/2009
Aligning SQL in the cloud to SQL on the ground is about more than just common sense. It's about getting things done.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2009