ith this completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you’ll quickly learn how to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features of Vista and .NET 3.0. The tutorial section
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the easiest way to produce and consume Web services on the Microsoft platform. With .NET 3.5, WCF has been extensively revamped?and Visual Studio 2008 gives
n Part 1 of this series, you saw how to get started with Direct3D, Microsoft’s high-performance three-dimensional graphics library. Part 2 explained how to make scenes more realistic by adding
ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the VB language to its latest version, 9.0. In VB 9.0, there are several key language enhancements that have
was surfing the web the other day, looking for Visual Basic questions to answer, when I stumbled across an old FAQ that explained why Visual Basic no longer has arrays
My previous article on Silverlight demonstrated how to use the MediaElement control to playback media files. This bare-bones control simply plays back a media file?it does not have visual controls
ny user-centric application you write will require some sort of data integration?at minimum, you’ll need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must retrieve
etting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft
ou undoubtedly know by now that Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing in November, just in time for Christmas. It comes wrapped up with a new version of Visual