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
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
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
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
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
The Process class provides all you need to create a command-line utility that lists all the processes running on the system and all the related information. This utility is therefore
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