- Software Issues 6: Application Architectures: Past, Present, and Future
- May 4, 2001
- What is a tier, anyway? What can we learn from games? In this article, software development expert Tyson Gill discusses various strategies for architecting applications.
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- Starting the Project: Design in Visual Basic 6
- Sep 22, 2001
- Learn how to understand requirements and formulating a design with Visual Basic 6.
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- Taking More Control of Access
- May 11, 2001
- Using macros and creating Visual Basic for Applications code, you can take more control of Access capabilities. This chapter shows how VBA code can overcome limitations of macros and illustrates some other useful things you can do with VBA code.
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- Tales from the Trenches
- Sep 7, 2001
- In this excerpt from his book Prototyping with Visual Basic, Rod Stephens shares interesting and amusing true-life stories that highlight important prototyping concepts.
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- Techniques for Retaining State Information in ASP Applications
- Aug 6, 2001
- Planning to build a Web application using ASP? If so, I bet you are planning on using the built-in ASP Session object to retain information between pages. But before you do, make sure you have considered the alternatives.
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- The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project
- Jun 23, 2010
- Although you can create lots of kinds of projects both for Windows and the Web with Visual Basic 2010, there is a common set of files for each project. In this chapter you learn which files give the structure to each project and how the files influence the building of an application. You also get an overview of references, namespaces, classes, modules, and Visual Basic keywords.
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- The Code-Focused Experience in Visual Basic 2015
- Jun 25, 2015
- In this first article of a new series, Alessandro Del Sole, author of Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed, introduces improvements in the coding experience with Visual Studio 2015 applied to the Visual Basic programming language.
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- The COM+ Event System
- Oct 30, 2000
- The COM+ event system introduces Visual Basic programmers to the concept of a loosely coupled event (LCE) system in which event consumers -- known as subscribers -- don't have to declare a variable against the event provider -- known as a publisher ...
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- Three Big VB.NET Changes
- Aug 6, 2001
- Craig Utley presents the basic VB.NET changes that will affect day-to-day programming for VB developers.
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- Understanding Objects and Collections in Visual Basic.NET
- Mar 1, 2002
- In this sample chapter from Understanding Objects and Collections in Visual Basic.NET, James Foxall covers the following topics: understanding objects, getting and setting properties, triggering methods, understanding method dynamism, writing object-based code, and more.
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- Understanding Program Variables
- Mar 19, 2007
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- Understanding Program Variables in VBA
- Jun 15, 2007
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- Understanding Transports and Payloads
- Oct 30, 2000
- To communicate the concepts inherent in moving data sets around a tiered system, we define two new terms: transport and payload. A transport is the container inside which we pack data, schema information, and error information. The data, schema, and ...
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- Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005
- Nov 5, 2004
- Tired of writing the same class code over and over to meet specific datatype requirements? John Mueller recommends generics.
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- Using Geometric Transforms for Text Effects in .NET
- May 26, 2006
- Peter Aitken points out that text is just a graphic image and therefore can be manipulated like any other graphic. .NET provides some built-in tools for manipulating the size, shape, and orientation of text. Just be sure it remains readable!
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- Using the My Feature in Visual Basic .NET
- Sep 8, 2006
- Computer people are great at coming up with clever quips and phrases. One of Paul Kimmel's favorites is the term "syntactic sugar" meaning something that, like sweets, isn't necessary, but tastes good. That's what the My feature is -- syntactic sugar. The difference between the sugary gooey foods you might eat and the My feature is that My is better for you.
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- Using the XML Classes in VB. NET
- Aug 20, 2001
- Many organizations use XML to pass documents and data within the organization as well as between trading partners and vendors. Sooner or later, developers will need to read and write XML documents, transform them with XSL, and validate them using XML ...
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- Using VBScript
- Mar 30, 2001
- In this selection from Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 (Que, 1998), authors Brian Siler and Jeff Spotts provide an overview of VBScript, a subset of Visual Basic that can be used to program the Internet.
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- VB Tech Tip: Better Base Addresses for In-Process Components
- Feb 1, 2002
- Developers can improve the performance of their in-process COM components by assigning appropriate DLL base addresses. Scott Loban describes a strategy for Visual Basic 6.0 developers.
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- VB Tech Tip: Faster String Concatenation
- Feb 1, 2002
- Visual Basic 6.0's standard string-concatenation tools are not the most efficient ways to concatenate many smaller strings. Scott Loban looks at a better way to handle this task.
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