VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

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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 ...

Is there any way to programmtically remove controls from a windows form at runtime with VB? I haven't done any VB development since helping friends in college (a long time ago). I have found how to ...

In VBA for access 2000, it was really easy to prevent someone from entering a value that was not in the list. In the combobox's properties, you just change the "LIMIT TO LIST" property to ...