With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

I'm designing a small application (VB .NET with an MSDE backend) to help us track various issues that our companies have. When someone enters the issue tracking system they either need to be able to ...

Two members of Microsoft's Windows Forms dev team appeared in a Channel 9 video on "Supporting VB.NET" in .NET 5," a task that in some ways poses "a huge challenge." Specifically, one such aspect is ...

Professional Design Patterns in VB .NET: Building Adaptable Applications is not merely design pattern theory. No, no. Instead, the authors show design patterns applied to real-world architectural ...

In VB form design, one can trigger the "on click" event by puting an "Access key" into a caption name...<BR><BR>e.g. &Close as a command button's caption name, would trigger the "on click" event if ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers several alternatives and the agony of choice is now greater than ever, as three external providers are also involved in the ...