A belated 25th birthday to Visual Basic. Yes, 25 years ago, this language transformed the Windows app market in ways even Microsoft could not have imagined.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/24/2016
Using the Stream objects correctly can speed up your I/O, protect your files and simplify your code.
Newer version of the coding extension for Visual Studio makes incremental improvements in VB.NET 14 support, and will come with Intermediate Language viewer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/13/2016
Microsoft offered a preview of Visual Studio '15' at Build last week. And whileit's just not quite ready for prime time, it's got an impressive number of changes with practically every tool in it that demand developer attention.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
A number of tools are slowly being open sourced onto the Github repository, with all of them being available over time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2016
Official Microsoft support for the decade-old development platform ends mid-April. So, who is still using it to develop enterprise-grade apps?
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2016
These are the fixes you were looking for: more than 300 bugs squashed in C++, as well as a number of editing fixes for those working with C# and Visual Basic projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/11/2016
You can dramatically simplify your code by using value objects, but to create a value object that makes sense to the developer who uses it, you need to redefine what the equals sign means. Along the way, Peter points out some problems when you don't use classes to define your data.
What Martin wanted was to fulfill his internship requirement for his degree and possibly earn a little spending money for his efforts. He got both of these and the experience of meeting "The Monster."
You'd think that rounding should be simple, but why is it causing Ryan so much trouble? You can thank his managers for that.
According to Anywhere Software, B4J aims to be the modern alternative to Visual Basic 6.
Now that Visual Studio 2015 is upon us, here's a brief overview of the capabilities of the .NET Compiler Platform.
Microsoft's programming tools suite features get locked for its release to manufacturing later this month, and the company will simultaneously hold a number of online events and demos to formally introduce the tools to the world.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/29/2015
Peter's convinced you're not using Shared and static members enough, but then he's also convinced that none of you know about all the ways you can use those two keywords.
Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 comes with more efficient cloud services single sign-on, improvements in ASP.NET and Xamarin integration, and an update to Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2015
Here's the simplest possible code for creating a custom collection class in the Microsoft .NET Framework that includes support for For…Each loops, an indexer method and initializing collections with {…}.
If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good solution even for C# shops.
Microsoft skips to naming the next version of Visual Basic, and commits to new language developments that are planned for release at the same time as the release of Visual Studio 15.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/16/2014
Did you know you can combine C#, F#, Visual Basic, Razor, HTML and JavaScript within a single app?
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/01/2014
It’s crunch time for Ben and his team. After a long journey, their project to uplift their biggest client’s application code is nearly at an end. Hopefully they didn’t miss anything ...