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Thanks to Visual Studio.NET macros, it is quite simple to automate the task of transforming a Public field into a Property with the same name that accesses a private field

When you’re working with the Visual Studio .NET code editor, typing a Try keyword plus the Enter key automatically creates the End Try statement. The following simple macro does something

It often happens that you need to swap the operands of an assignment. For example, say that you have this set of assignments: p1.FirstName = m_FirstNamep1.LastName = m_LastName and later

Nothing beats ILDASM when it’s time to understand what your VB.NET or C# compiler actually emits. In this case you should prepare a desktop shortcut to ILDASM so that you

As you might have noticed, the Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio displays all the assemblies in the GAC, which brings up the following question: is there a way to

Persisting an array of data in a SQL Server DB is usually considered quite difficult. The common solution is to use a master detail table, but this leads to a

‘ Download the HTML source code at the specified URL’ You can optionally specify the username/password credentials,’ in case the page uses Basic Authentication’ Returns a null string if any

You can use the VB.NET Shell command (in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) to run an external process and wait for its termination, but you can get better control if you work

Enum FormatMemorySizeUnits BestGuess Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes GigabytesEnd Enum’ convert a number of bytes into Kbytes, Megabytes, or GigabytesFunction FormatMemorySize(ByVal value As Long, _ ByVal unit As FormatMemorySizeUnits, Optional ByVal decimalDigits