tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24736155945226697982011-04-21T14:27:58.708-07:00This blog is targeted at beginning / novice programmers for the Visual Basic (VB) language.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12968105462220114467noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473615594522669798.post-71761825597941760512008-05-23T09:02:00.001-07:002008-05-23T09:02:56.045-07:00

I wanted to write this quick blog entry to let you know I recently performed a review on a book called, "C# & VB.NET Conversion". This book basically acts as a reference to help in the process of converting from C# to VB.Net (or vice versa). For under $6 (for used versions) it's well worth the read. It was written quite some time ago, but still very much applies in today's uses. You can read my

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Overview: By now, most of us have heard of LINQ and have a general concept of what it is and what can be done with it. For the few that don't I'll lightly skim over it. The remainder of this post will discuss what the major differences are between LINQ in VB and LINQ in C# and also offer some resources to get technical information, practical examples, and some very helpful videos. Best of all;

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Today, I was browsing the vb.general.discussion newsgroup and came across a person who had wanted to take a textbox input and group the text into groups of 3 using a space to separate the groups. Example being: Input: 1234567 Output: 1 234 567 Because I was unsure if they were dealing strictly with numbers I found the easiest method was to use the System.String namespace and create a function

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This will be a quick blog. This is a topic that you should already know, and if you don't, you should stop everything and learn as much as you can about it. I'm not kidding either!Coding Conventions:Coding conventions is really simple. These are a set of conventions that help the programmer that is coming into a project, handing over a project, or simply returning to their own project to be able

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Well, it's been a little over 6 months since my last entry for this blog. Life's been a challenge and required my absence from this blog (and my other blogs).Now things have settled down. My health is stable, my career has become stable. Now, it's time to get this blog back to being stable! I hope to be able to continue along the path I was headed with this blog.You may, or may not, know that

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This is quite a broad area of topic; I will do my best to keep this blog concise and cover the essential basics for the beginning programmer. Intermediate programmers will most likely find this to be a refresher course, if anything at all.I think the best thing to start with is Microsoft's definition, this is a snippet of the definition (you can read the full definition by reading the MSDN

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This is partially true. The Garbage Collection is a set of classes that is a part of .NET Framework’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). The reason it is percieved as being uncontrollable is because Microsoft uses the Garbage Collection classes at unknown times. Thus, it is unpredictable. The part that is untrue of this class being uncontrollable is that the developer can call its methods at anytime

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If you are unsure of what the .NET Framework is; you can read a brief discription in our blog (located at: http://codingchat.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-net.html).   Accessing the .NET Framework from within a programming language is actually a very simple task to accomplish. The reason it is so simple is that during the development of the framework Microsoft had created what is called

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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a concept used for programming. It is like a different way to look at things. The basic principle of OOP is that everything is either an object, a property to the object, or a method of the object. Before we can get into why you need OOP, you need to know a few other things first.OOP originally was designed to provide an answer to a "software development

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I frequent message boards and find that there are so many questions posted that can be answered by simply reading a book. I write this posting not to discourage you from posting a question on a message board; or from someone answering simple questions. We all have been there at one time or another; and I'm a strong believer in there is no such thing as a stupidquestion.I suggest to each and

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MSDN has a fairly decent comparison of VB.Net and C#. I would recommend checking out this link if you are torn between which languages to choose. http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/11/87816.aspxAdvantagesOption Strict – Prevents unintended type conversions. This means that you cannot accidentally assign an ‘Integer’ value to a ‘String’ variable; however, this is not always foolproof.

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You will find that there is not all that much distinguishing differences from Visual C# and Visual Basic. These languages are known as Intermediate Languages (IL). This becomes an important factor in that this can have a limitation in what systems may run the applications that are designed with these languages. The limitation falls from the code being interpreted by the Common Language Runtime (

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Quite simply put....choose it because it fits your personal preference. In order to answer this question there are a few things that must be understood.There are a multitude of programming languages to choose from. It is important to understand the advantages, as well as the disadvantages of your chosen programming language. In most of my postings I will refer to designing applications; it is

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This blog is intended to focus on helping the beginning Visual Basic programmer. This blog will cover topics such as what a keyword is, how to use a keyword, how to declare a variable, etc. This blog will not cover topics in-depth that are beyond the capability of a beginning / novice Visual Basic programmer. This blog will not cover topics that are unrelated to VB.If you are looking to read a

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