for any beginning programmer who wants to get familiar with the .NET Framwork and Visual Basic .NET in particular and to have fun doing so. Peter Bromberg is a Senior Programmer Analyst at Fiserv Inc. in Orlando and a co-developer of the EggheadCafe.com developer website. He can be reached at pbromberg yahoo.com Copyright 2002 EggHeadCafe.com....

By Bill Hatfield Go to page 1 2 Next In the first article in this series you set up everything you need to begin programming with the Visual Basic .NET language. You even created compiled and ran you first program. In this article you are going to begin exploring the Visual Basic .NET language with variables and data types. The first program you...

Jesse Liberty This article assumes you re familiar with Visual Basic .NET Level of Difficulty 1 2 3 SUMMARY If you re used to Visual Basic 6.0 and you re making the transition to Microsoft .NET you will find that error handling is quite different from what you ve used for years. Visual Basic .NET uses a more object-oriented solution to signaling and...

By Karl Moore Very few developers ever attempted to create DOS-style console applications by using previous versions of Visual Basic because it was just too darn difficult. Ever craving for a challenge I went the whole hog& mdash; and even wrote an entire magazine feature showing exactly how it could be done. But admittedly it was bloomin difficult....

By Thiru Thangarathinam Rating 4.2 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article download source code One of the new features introduced with Visual Basic 2005 is the My namespace. My namespace is aimed at making the common development tasks very easy to perform. Also with the My namespace the code you write will...

By Paul Kimmel Go to page 1 2 Next Part 1 of the three-part .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET series introduced a Singleton remote server with published events as a text-chat server. The basic idea is that all clients connect to and register with the single server. When a client sends a message the server broadcasts the message to all of...

Ken Getz This article discusses How events work in Visual Basic 6.0 Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005 How Visual Basic .NET events are compiled Exceptions and manual invocation of event handlers Writing custom events This article uses the following technologies Visual Basic .NET Framework Code download available at EventHandling.exe 158KB...

By Paul Kimmel Go to page 1 2 3 Next This final installment of the .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET series takes a closer look at some of the supporting code in the simple chat client and server application that Parts 1 and 2 demonstrated including the use of the command observer singleton and factory patterns. The previous installments...

By Paul Kimmel Go to page 1 2 Next Although you do not need to write overloaded operators every day this feature certainly puts the latest version of VB.NET whether you call it 2.0 or 8.0 there is some confusion in this area on par with even the most powerful object-oriented languages. This article demonstrates a step-by-step process for writing...

Ken Spencer This article was previously published on MSDN Magazine . Download the code for this article AdvancedBasics0308.exe 223KB Q How can I get the most out of data binding in the applications I write in Visual Basic .NET A As I mentioned in last month s installment of Advanced Basics data binding is alive and well in the MicrosoftÂ...

Jesse Liberty This article assumes you re familiar with Visual Basic .NET Level of Difficulty 1 2 3 Download the code for this article Delegates.exe 36KB SUMMARY Delegates new in Visual Basic .NET are type-safe object-oriented references to methods. By using delegates you make your methods accessible to others and therefore more extensible. This...

Brian A. Randell This article is based upon prerelease versions of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. All information contained herein is subject to change. This article discusses What s inside these new versions Building a Windows Forms application Powerful tools and Starter Kits Creating and accessing data Calling...

Mark Gerlach This article assumes you re familiar with Visual Basic .NET and ADO Level of Difficulty 1 2 3 Download the code for this article SpiderInNet.exe 549KB SUMMARY Visual Basic .NET comes loaded with features not available in previous versions including a new threading model custom class creation and data streaming. Learn how to take...

By Bill Hatfield Go to page 1 2 3 4 5 Next In the previous article in this series you discovered how to use variables to store information do math and other operations and how to display the results. In this article you ll explore the use of functions and arguments. Commands in VB.NET come in two flavors statements and functions. A statement...

Jesse Liberty This article was previously published on MSDN Magazine . This article assumes you re familiar with Visual Basic .NET Download the code for this article Delegates.exe 36KB SUMMARY Delegates new in Visual Basic .NET are type-safe object-oriented references to methods. By using delegates you make your methods accessible to others and...