VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

Connecting Visual Basic to SQL databases gives your applications the ability to store, retrieve, and update information dynamically. By setting up the right environment, using ADO.NET for database ...

I need to take info from about 15 Text Boxes and put them into an access DB. I have been trained in VB6 and could do it using VB6, but the problem is that I no longer have access to VB6. All I have is ...

Learn the best way to combine strings in VB.NET Your email has been sent Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also ...

Comparing strings with and without case sensitivity in VB.NET Your email has been sent Irina Medvinskaya offers an example that shows how VB.NET's String.Compare method can come in handy when you need ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...