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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 — 3 days ago

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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

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What's a Programmer To Do?

A reader recently sent some emails asking about one of my articles, Application Settings in VB.NET 2008. To answer the question, I read the article with fresh eyes and decided two things: It needs some work! (Click here to read the new article.) Every writer should be forced to review his own ...

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About.co...al Basic — October 24

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LINQ Queries - An Example Driven Introduction

LINQ - Language Integrated Query - is the reason a whole host of new technolgies were introduced in VB.NET 2008. For example, Lamda expressions and partial methods. Another technology that was introduced with LINQ is the LINQ query ... a faster and more direct way to write LINQ query expressions....

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About.co...al Basic — October 16

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VBA to Shade an Excel Spreadsheet Cell

A reader in the forum asked how to shade a spreadsheet cell. The answer involved three techniques that could be useful in a lot of other cases, so I wrote... ...

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About.co...al Basic — October 07