- Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2010 Programming Tour
- Jun 2, 2010
- New to programming and Visual Basic? James Foxall offers a quick tour of Visual Basic that takes you step by step through creating a complete, albeit small, Visual Basic program.
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- Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2015 Programming Tour
- Sep 14, 2015
- In this excerpt from Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, James Foxall gives you a quick tour of Visual Basic that takes you step by step through creating a complete, albeit small, Visual Basic program.
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- Live Code Analysis with Visual Basic 2015 and the .NET Compiler Platform
- Jul 13, 2015
- After introducing a new code-focused experience in Part 1 of this series, in Part 2 Alessandro Del Sole, author of Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed, shows how to create your own code analysis rules and integrate them into the Visual Basic code editor for reporting code issues and suggesting fixes as you type.
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- Major VB.NET Changes
- May 18, 2001
- With VB.NET comes a set of major changes to the VB language. Here, Craig Utley uncovers these changes and points out both the new features and the features that have received major modifications.
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- Making a Splash
- Sep 7, 2001
- Your customers' first impressions can mean success or failure to your application. In this article, Rod Stephens shows how you can use a memorable splash screen.
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- Master's Toolbox
- Mar 30, 2001
- Learn how to build a number of interesting products using Visual Basic in this chapter from Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts' book, Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998).
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- Mastering the Visual Basic Language: Procedures, Error Handling, Classes, and Objects
- Jun 27, 2003
- Master the concepts behind procedures, error handling, classes, and objects to create your foundation of Visual Basic .NET knowledge. From here, you will be able to get on your way to ascertaining full understanding of the language.
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- Preventing Multi-User Concurrency Problems
- Aug 6, 2001
- Applications that support multiple users need to include code that protects against concurrency problems. This article discusses several solution alternatives, and shows how to implement one that works, no matter what architecture you are using.
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- Programming Card Games with Visual Basic
- Dec 4, 2000
- Learn how to write card programs using classes in this sample chapter by Clayton Walnum.
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- Putting It All Together: Your First WMI/ADSI Script
- May 21, 2004
- Visual Basic Scripting (VBScript) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) are vital tools for systems administrators grappling with the increasing complexity of Windows technologies. Ready to put them to use? In this sample book chapter, you'll learn the complete design process for an entirely new script.
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- Query By Example
- Sep 7, 2001
- In this article, Rod Stephens shows you how to use Visual Basic to build a query by example form that allows users to easily filter records returned from a database query.
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- Reasons to Prototype in Visual Basic
- Mar 30, 2001
- In this chapter from his book Prototyping with VB, Rod Stephens walks you through the essential steps of developing a prototype, from defining its functionality to assembling the development team.
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- Retaining User State without Sessions or Cookies in ASP Applications
- Aug 6, 2001
- ASP Session variables have a dark side (if cookies aren't enabled, they don't work. What should you do if you don't want your Web application to require cookies? Here's one technique for retaining state that doesn't use Sessions ...
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- Separating the User Interface from the Business Logic
- Aug 6, 2001
- Separating your application's user interface from its business processing logic can make your code more reusable and make your application more scalable. Here's one example that you might consider adapting for your next project.
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- Seven Steps to Improving Your VB Code
- Aug 17, 2007
- Here are the improvements you must make if you want to be more than a macro writer.
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- Software Issues 1: Programming Is Really a Language Art
- May 4, 2001
- Do you think of programmers as scientists in white lab coats? Maybe you should think in terms of painters in smocks and berets instead, suggests software development expert Tyson Gill.
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- Software Issues 2: The Future of Programming
- May 4, 2001
- Software development expert Tyson Gill posits that even if we could build Star Trek's Commander Data today, we wouldn't be able to program him to be intelligent. He'd basically just be a tall calculator.
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- Software Issues 3: The Ethics of Programming
- May 4, 2001
- Is it possible to program unethically? Software development expert Tyson Gill definitely thinks so, and explores that dangerous possibility in this article.
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- Software Issues 4: The Demise of Reuse
- May 4, 2001
- Reusable code might steal a famous line from Mark Twain: "The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." If it really is dead, software development expert Tyson Gill presents a compelling argument for its resurrection.
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- Software Issues 5: Creativity Through Standardization
- May 4, 2001
- Software development expert Tyson Gill presents a strategy for building effective, maintainable "reuse-quality" code.
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