http://visualbasic.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2012-02-18T17:49:56Z Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/19/bingo-revisted.htm <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/visualbasic/1/H/0/_/BingoNET.gif" alt="The About Visual Basic Bingo Program" /></p> <p>A while ago, I wrote this Q&#038;D Bingo app in response to a request I received.</p> <p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2008/12/30/a-quick-little-bingo-program.htm">A Quick Little Bingo Program ...</a></p> <p>Reader Robert Taubert pointed out that I did something of a non-standard Bingo card. Which was true. As I told Robert, I hadn't actually played a game of Bingo since I was in short pants. The problem was that I numbered all of the columns from 1 to 15 when the set of columns together should have gone from 1 to 75. Being fundamentally as lazy as a slug, I left the correction of the program as an exercise for readers.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/19/bingo-revisted.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/19/bingo-revisted.htm Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:07:32 +0000 2012-02-19T14:07:32Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/18/linq-to-dataset.htm <p>The Quick Tip on DataSet in the previous blog was written mainly to support <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/a/linqDataSet.htm">this article about LINQ to DataSet</a>. LINQ to DataSet feels a lot more like "ADO.NET Reloaded" than a part of LINQ. It's really just a whole layer of objects that help you use this most central part of ADO.NET more effectively.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/18/linq-to-dataset.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/18/linq-to-dataset.htm Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:49:56 +0000 2012-02-18T17:49:56Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/17/a-quick-tip-on-dataset.htm <p>Regular readers of the site know that I'm doing a whole series of articles about LINQ. DataSet isn't LINQ, but there is a "LINQ to DataSet". So I checked what I had already about DataSet on the site and decided that it was simply not enough and out of date.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/17/a-quick-tip-on-dataset.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/17/a-quick-tip-on-dataset.htm Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:16:05 +0000 2012-02-17T17:16:05Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/11/linq-to-xml.htm <p>One way to classify the various parts of LINQ - <strong>L</strong>anguage <strong>IN</strong>tegrated <strong>Q</strong>uery - is by data store. I recently added an article about <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/09/linq-to-sql.htm">LINQ to SQL</a>. Another major data store is XML.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/11/linq-to-xml.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/11/linq-to-xml.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:35:46 +0000 2012-02-11T18:35:46Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/09/linq-to-sql.htm <p>The LINQ series, now being filled out at About Visual Basic, has been expanded to include a new article about LINQ to SQL. (<a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/a/LINQtoSQL.htm">Click Here to go straight to the new article.</a>) One of the things mentioned is the scare that went through the developer community, about a year after LINQ to SQL was announced, that it would be summarily dropped again in favor of a different way of accessing databases from an application, the Entity Framework.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/09/linq-to-sql.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/02/09/linq-to-sql.htm Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:55:17 +0000 2012-02-09T17:55:17Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/21/hard-code.htm <p>I. M. Wright (<em>catchy pseudonym</em>), consummate Microsoft insider, has published the secrets he shared <em>only</em> with his co-conspirators in the company!</p> <p>Wellll ... That's a little over the top. Actually, Eric Brechner - consummate Microsoft insider -&#160;has published his most popular columns. But it's a great read. I review Eric's book at:</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/21/hard-code.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/21/hard-code.htm Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:35 +0000 2012-01-21T13:34:35Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/15/linq-starting-a-new-series.htm <p>LINQ - <strong>L</strong>anguage <strong>IN</strong>tegrated <strong>Q</strong>uery - is probably the most successful innovation in .NET since ... well ... since .NET. There have been lots of others ... MVC, Entity Frameworks, WPF. But they just haven't hit a home run like LINQ has. There's an old saying that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. LINQ has lots of "homes" these days. It's being included in more and more data technologies. So this week, I'm starting a new series about LINQ.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/15/linq-starting-a-new-series.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/15/linq-starting-a-new-series.htm Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:08:15 +0000 2012-01-15T22:08:15Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/12/a-simple-simulation.htm <p>I love programming!</p> <p>You can apply it to all kinds of personal situations. For example, I have all of my liquor cataloged in a SQL Server Database, along with drink recipes and places for reviews. My wife was working a newspaper puzzle and wanted all of the words that could be formed from eight letters. A simple combination calculating program gave it to her.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/12/a-simple-simulation.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/12/a-simple-simulation.htm Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:59:02 +0000 2012-01-12T21:59:02Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/10/richtextbox-oldie-updated.htm <p>A few years ago, a reader asked how to delete just the top line of text in a RichTextBox. He was using ASCII style code that tested for the vbCrLf characters that have been used since teletype days. RTF, the formatting used by RichTextBox, isn't like that and the article shows what it is like.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/10/richtextbox-oldie-updated.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2012/01/10/richtextbox-oldie-updated.htm Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:28:08 +0000 2012-01-10T17:28:08Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2011/12/20/257664.htm <p>(Guest Blog / Donald Fogelsanger)</p> <p>Reader Donald Fogelsanger took the trouble to write a heartfelt message, mainly about Microsoft. I wrote back that I agreed with him and had said so on this page. (<a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/od/imhoinmyhumbleopinion/a/VB6Petition.htm">Visual Basic 6 Programmers Are Revolting!</a> - It's a little dated now, but I haven't changed my mind.)</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2011/12/20/257664.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2011/12/20/257664.htm Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:30:39 +0000 2011-12-20T12:30:39Z