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Goodbye ... 24 Aug 2012 | 04:05 pm
Wishing Bug-free Code to Everyone! It's with quite a bit of regret that I must tell you that I won't be the About Visual Basic site guide starting next month. This will be my last blog. It's been rea...
Filter Function - String Processing in VB.NET 19 Aug 2012 | 05:41 pm
Strings may be the second most useful "type" in VB.NET. (Integers are probably the first.) So there is a lot of useful string processing built into VB.NET. The Filter function is one and a new article...
Shallow Copy versus Deep Copy 13 Aug 2012 | 03:27 am
Although you will find these terms mentioned in technical articles, you won't find any methods with these names. In fact, "Shallow Copy" is the only type of copying directly supported by a method and ...
Does this Microsoft Example Make Sense To You? 5 Aug 2012 | 06:12 am
Check out the example at Microsoft's page about the String.Clone Method. A snippet of the code there ... ' Create a Unicode String ' with 5 Greek Alpha characters... Read Full Post
A Double Linked List Program 29 Jul 2012 | 06:29 pm
So, I was reading a book about Design Patterns which had a neat piece of code that kept track of nodes in a double linked list. But there was no code to show how to use it. ... Read Full Post
The Factory Design Pattern 22 Jul 2012 | 06:08 am
The factory pattern is usually classified as part of a family of patterns called "creational patterns" ... they're ways that your code can "create" objects. A common definition of the factory pattern ...
Designing Classes - The Delegation Design Pattern 15 Jul 2012 | 08:01 am
Delegates have become part of .NET now, and they perform about the same function as the Delegation design pattern. But they're not the same. A new three article series was necessary to cover the Dele...
Design Patterns 14 Jul 2012 | 10:25 pm
The Singleton Design Pattern Technical articles, including those at About Visual Basic, usually discuss the detailed syntax of VB.NET, not the overall philosophy of why you might want to do things in...
Using TimeSpan and DateTime 8 Jul 2012 | 07:32 pm
A companion article here at About Visual Basic, Of Ticks and Timers describes the fundamental basis of DateTime and TimeSpan from the point of view of the Ticks that they're made of. This article goes...
Multiple Interfaces 24 Jun 2012 | 06:05 am
According to C++ programmers, a lack of something called "multiple inheritance" in VB.NET (and other .NET languages - we're certainly not alone in this) make it slightly less than fully object oriente...
