I'm about build my next database, and I need to decide on a .Net language. I've been using Access for a few years, and have gotten as far as using Access Data Projects with Sql Server. The next step ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

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, ...

Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talked at length to VSM Editor in Chief Patrick Meader about the present and future of Visual Basic .NET, including its target ...

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 ...

When building Visual Basic.Net applications, consider adding an export to Excel feature in addition to printed reports. The added functionality takes little code and your customers can sort and ...

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code ...

Microsoft's oft-maligned Visual Basic .NET programming language was the big mover in the December TIOBE Programming Community index, which gauges programming language popularity. In fact, VB.NET was ...