If you're looking for a lean, mean, cross-platform, desktop code editor then Visual Studio Code might be just your cup of tea. However, if you're used to the level of functionality you get with Visual ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

After a year of previews and one release candidate, Microsoft today officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its ...

The big debate in Windows development has always been how to build your application’s user interface. We’ve been spoiled for choice, and every time Microsoft unveils a new front-end framework we’re ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

Hi Folks,<BR><BR>Is there any way we can print files(.doc,.xls files) using Visual Basic code? What I intend to do is this (as an example):<BR><BR>create a command button, and under its click event, ...