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or a decade people have been predicting the demise of Visual Basic, and with VB.NET, nothing has changed. According to one recent report, the future of VB.NET is threatened competitively

everal years and employers ago, I worked for a school of information technology in Australia. At one point, administrators, frustrated by a confusing and distributed collection of tools for testing

ere’s a genuine “real-world” problem: a particular company has a Web-based intranet for their document and content management. This system stores many hundreds of documents. Some of these are on

Join the DiscussionGo to this threadvb.generalDiscussions Homepage roblem #1Jerry Nesbett asks: “Is there a function in VB6 that would convert a string date to a numeric date? In other words,

mong the controls installed with VB6 is the WebBrowser control, which is nothing less than a complete browser disguised as an ActiveX control (technically, it’s a wrapper around Internet Explorer

As developers, we are trained to look at workflows, trends and needs, perform an analysis of our own personal experience, and recognize repetitive actions that could benefit from automation. So

ll graphical user interfaces, including Windows, make excellent use of the mouse. One way that the mouse can be used is drag-and-drop, the ability to initiate some action by dragging

ne major advantage of the Windows operating system?and most other operating systems for that matter?is that it provides all programs with a similar user interface. A program’s menu, for example,

he TreeView control is one of the most flexible Windows controls. It displays hierarchical data and lets users navigate through the hierarchy by expanding and collapsing nodes at will. I