Testability and Design
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How important is testing in software development? Explore the relationship between testability and design.
Customising Your Desktop with Visual Basic.NET 2005
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Learn how to launch, configure, and preview screen savers on your own form; also, learn how to change the computer's Visual style (along with the fonts and colours pertaining to the particular visual style), and other useful things.
Programmatically Import Excel Worksheets Using IBM's ActiveX Object Library
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Everybody likes to export DB2 data to an Excel spreadsheet. It's quick and easy, and there are plenty of ways to do it. On the other hand, I'm often asked by people, including fellow developers, to assist them with importing an Excel worksheet into a DB2 table. In fact, what developer hasn't had the experience of a bean counter asking for assistance in uploading a spreadsheet into an ERP system?
Bug Reporting to Microsoft - A Continuing Story
10/10
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While writing an article for the About Visual Basic page, I ran into what seems to me to be a very clear-cut bug in Visual Studio. Since Visual Studio is a pretty good product, I hadn't encountered a bug as definite and clear as this one before, so I figured out how to report it to Microsoft.
