The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes two methods that let you kill a process: CloseMainWindow should be used with processes that have a graphical interface, whereas the Kill method should be used

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

Enum FormatColumnAlignment Left Center RightEnd Enum’ format a value in a column of given width and with specified alignment’ using the specified pad character Function FormatValue(ByVal value As String, ByVal

SQL Server experts know that the DB engine never accesses directly the data pages on disk; rather it uses a special module called “Cache Manager”. It is possible, by using

ASP.NET doesn’t provide a built-in method for giving a control the input focus when the page loads. In fact, you can assign the TabIndex properties to controls on a page,

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Thanks to COM Interop, you can still use the Microsoft Script Control from VB.NET and any other .NET language. To do so, you must add a reference to the Microsoft

Unlike previous Visual Basic versions, under VB.NET you can’t use the Len function to calculate the length of a Structure or a class. However, it is easy to get this

The System.Collections.Specialized.BitVector32 structure can be used to store up to 32 boolean values, or a set of small integers that can take up to 32 consecutive bits. The BitVector32 is

.NET Boolean values require 4 bytes each, as opposed to the 2 byte taken under previous VB versions. When creating very large Boolean arrays this extra memory impacts negatively on

If you’re using a COM object through COM Interop you should be aware that the object isn’t released as soon as you set it to Nothing, as it happens with

This function computes the number of elements of any one-dimensional array?it sure beats ripping open the SAFEARRAY array descriptor. Use it when you

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In .NET, strings are immutable: When you pass them out to an API, you can

When you use components in your VB projects, sometimes it

Have you ever wanted to send more than one value for an associated name by passing values to a Servlet or JSP using a name-value pair? A simple way to

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The newsgroups offer a lot of discussion about bitwise comparison in SQL statements. VB supports true bitwise arithmetic with And, but SQL supports only a logical AND and returns only

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Contrary to popular thought, you can add new records to an ADO 2.1 Recordset object that is the result of a Join operation executed on multiple-base tables. You must specify

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