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Hungarian Notation Revisted

This may be a pretty obvious idea, but it hadn't occurred to me before. W-a-a-a-y back in 2005, I wrote a blog, Hungarian Notation - Good Idea?, in which I noted that Microsoft wasn't consistently recommending a naming style called Hungarian notation anymore. In brief, Hungarian notation names v...

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About.co...al Basic — 4 days ago

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Fixing the InputBox

In The Trouble With InputBox, I pointed out that InputBox wasn't really a very good way to input data to a ListBox and I pointed out that it also had a fatal flaw - there wasn't any way to tell the difference between blank input and the Cancel button. It turns out that this isn't quite true .....

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About.co...al Basic — 5 days ago

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The Trouble With InputBox

A reader asked for help coding a loop to input data to a ListBox control. The problem was that the reader was using an ancient holdover from VB6 that still happens to be available in VB.NET ... for backward compatibility. There are better ways and this Quick Tip shows one of them: the Validating ...

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About.co...al Basic — November 14

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It's Good to Share!

VB.NET Shared and Instance Members Old programmer joke: There are 10 kinds of programmers. Those who understand binary and those who don't. There are also 10 kinds of Class members: Shared and Instance. I was looking for information about this and I found my own article! It answered my questi...

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About.co...al Basic — November 07

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A Different Program

In my "other" life, I'm a writer. I was recently thinking about books that have been bypassed by the march of time such as 1984 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. When they were written, their dates were far into the future. Now, they're artifacts of history. The idea of using Visual Basic to w...

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About.co...al Basic — October 31

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Win7 and VB ... A Report from the Front Line

Anybody above ground knows that Windows 7 is out now. "SpiritualMadMan" sent this report from the field in and I thought I'd share it ... I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 on an HP DV6609wm and I installed Visual Studio 6 and initially had problems. However, ignoring Microsoft's...

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About.co...al Basic — October 25