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Visual Basic.NET is getting comfortable in its new position as a top five programming language in the TIOBE index, which measures popularity based on search engine data. After hitting a high in the ...

Keyboard shortcut keys let you allow commands to run after users press a key combination. You use the VB.NET "keydown" event handler to detect that a key was pressed by a user, and create your ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also provides a simple example of how to combine stings in VB.NET. Combining ...

I have an old VB6 project (DLL) that someone wants converted to VB.NET. It's been a long time since I've worked with VB6, and I've never done VB.NET, though I've done enough C#. I've read up on the ...

I'm new to the whole .NET thing and I'm attempting to exercise my brain by coding up a little app that'll keep X days of backups available... Anyway, I'm stuck at copying everything from source to the ...