VB.NET Tutorials & Articles
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C# 4.0 goes dynamic - a step too far?
by Mike JamesIs C# in danger of too much change? Mike James ponders the implications of dynamic types in C
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Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 - Top 10 Features
by Mark SmithAfter a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I’d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.
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Enhancing your applications for Windows 7
by Kevin GriffinWindows 7 brings new salvation for .NET developers, and it comes in the form of the Windows 7 API Code Pack for the.NET Framework.
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Implementing AJAX in ASP.NET
by Karl SeguinAsynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has recently become the craze thanks, in no small part, to Google’s usage of it in Google Suggest as well as Google Maps. Karl looks at how it works, and how we can implement it in ASP.NET using a free AJAX.NET wrapper.
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Why Patterns
by Andy ClymerWe look at the rise of 'patterns' in the developer community, and how they've evolved to help communication between developers and understanding more clearly the intent of a given piece of code.
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.NET Applets
by M KenyonMark walks you through how you go about creating a ".NET Applet" - a Windows Forms control hosted within a web page.
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Introduction to Designers
by Tim DawsonDesigners are essential in creating professional controls with polished design time behaviour. This article serves as an introduction to writing your own.
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Common Intermediate Language
by Granville BarnetttGranville gets down with the CLR, and takes a look at CIL/MSIL - the intermediate language that every .NET language gets compiled to, and has full access to the capabilities of the CLR.
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Collection Controls with Rich Design Time Support
by Tim DawsonThis extensive article details the process of creating complex list-based controls with rich design time support similar to my DotNetWidgets and OutlookBar controls.
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Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool
by Roy OsheroveI’ll show how to use regular expressions to parse a Web page’s HTML text into manageable chunks of data. That data will be converted and written as an RSS feed for the whole world to consume. Finally, I’ll show how to create a generic tool that enables you to automatically generate an RSS feed from any website, given a small group of parameters.
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Windows Form Designer generated code
by Palo MrazTaking a closer look at the code generated by the Windows Forms Designer and understanding some of the important implications.
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C# Threading in .NET
by Randy Charles MorinThe first in a two part series on C# threads, introducing how to create and manipulate threads with the .NET framework, including creating a thread, thread pools, syncronization, race conditions and timers.
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XML transformations in .NET - Part I
by JLogicAn introduction to using XSL transformations on XML documents, and how to perform these in VB .NET using the XslTransform class.
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Introduction to Microsoft's .NET Platform
by Nakul GoyalASP.NET is not just another upgrade or the next version of ASP. It is a unified web development platform that provides necessary services for developers to build Enterprise Web based Applications. ASP.NET allows you to use a full featured programming language such as C# or VB.NET to build web applications easily.
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Winforms Data Binding Lessons Learned
by Roy OsheroveI’ve been dabbling with Winforms data binding and the DataGrid control for the past week, and here are some lessons I’ve learned.
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Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET
by G.Gnana Arun GaneshUsing the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications. Arun Ganesh introduces the new features of VB.net for VB programmers.
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RichTextLabel WinForms Control
by Palo MrazEmbedding and displaying RTF resources to tweak the UI of an application easily and efficiently.
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The Quick & Dirty .NET Guide to C#/VB OOP
by Dimitrios MarkatosAlthough this article won't be an exhaustive OOP treatise, its objective nevertheless is to present in a quick and dirty manner C#/VB Object-Oriented Programming. Moreover, even though this article may be slightly geared more towards C#, all important VB assessments or similarities are addressed and demonstrated. By the way, keep in mind C# is very case sensitive. Incidentally, don't be put off at the length of this article, a lot of it is simply repeated code examples for both languages.
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Object-Oriented ASP.NET
by Greg EnnisLearn how to use the powerful object-oriented features of C# and VB.NET to build re-usable classes in ASP.NET
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Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Part One
by Bryan SullivanIn part one of this two part article, you will learn about five of the top ten “worst offenders” of misconfigurations of application security that can cause overall problems for ASP.NET Web-based applications. Learn more about how to secure the Web.config files of an ASP.NET application.