July 27, 2002

.NET strings are objects, so what you store in a String variable is actually a reference to a String object allocated in the managed heap. Even though the VB.NET compiler

While you can access individual pixels of a bitmap by means of the GetPixel and SetPixel methods of the Bitmap object, in practice you seldom want to use these methods,

VB6 developers can use the App.PrevInstance property to check whether there is another instance of the same process already running on the current machine. This property isn’t available any longer

The .NET Framework enforces secuity at several levels. For example, assemblies downloaded from the Internet have very limited permissions (especially after installing the Service Pack 1 of the Framework). This

You can compare strings in many ways under VB.NET: by using the = operator (or another comparison operator), with the Equals method (which the String class inherits from System.Object), or

It is a common feature in an application to require the current date time to be displayed in a text field or something similar.This can be done easily in PalmOS

‘****************************************************’Written By KNR’Excel Sheet Reading’Read Excel File Using ADO’You can use Microsoft EXCEL Driver’****************************************************Public Function Read_Excel(ByVal sFile As String) As ADODB.Recordset On Error GoTo fix_err Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset Set

Shrinking a transaction log in SQL Server can be tricky, especially if you need it shrunk ASAP. You could use DBCC SHRINKFILE() to shrink it, but it will not shrink

You can easily connect to a MS Access database by using JDBC. First, you need to set up the data source for your MS Access database using the ODBCAdministrator. You