Designing Complex Interfaces in VB
arge scale applications should have a consistent look and feel, a consistent interface, and a menu structure that reflects the basic operations of the application. Typically, each form’s menu contains
arge scale applications should have a consistent look and feel, a consistent interface, and a menu structure that reflects the basic operations of the application. Typically, each form’s menu contains
typedef declaration, or a typedef for short, creates a new name for an existing type. As such, it is often used in writing more aesthetic and readable code. Aesthetics not
here will be times when you’ll need to hand-code your .NET Compact Framework controls, without using the drag-and-drop feature of Visual Studio .NET. For example, you may not know how
s a database programmer, when you don’t know where the tables and columns you need to do your job are, you’re dead in the water. You can browse through Enterprise
n a previous column I explained the rules of POD initialization. The rules of class member initialization are radically different, due to the fact that, in certain contexts, member initialization
Presenting information on the web can be a challenge, especially when you need to show more information than fits neatly on a given screen. This article presents a way to
ext processors, spellcheckers, and IDEs are just a few classic examples of applications that need to manipulate strings extensively. Web-oriented applications also make heavy use of strings for generating text,
ntil recently, moving data between HTML lists was problematic due to differences in each browser’s DOM; however, as browsers move toward W3C DOM compliance, those differences are disappearing rapidly. In
ertain applications need to share data among different users or among distributed instances of the same application. Using a file to store the shared data isn’t an ideal solution due