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    Controlling Program Flow in Visual Basic 2010

    VB.NET provides a solid set of programming tools to implement flow control. VB.NET 2010 includes the For Each construct, making it possible to easily iterate over a list of items with little to no extra coding. This article examines the different VB.NET keywords and gives examples of how they're used.

    Modules, Classes and Namespaces in VB.NET

    Visual Basic .NET 2010 is a fully functional Object Oriented Programming language providing access to the full complement of .NET 4.0 features. Understanding what a Namespace is and how it relates to Classes and Modules will lay a good foundation for understanding the language as a whole.

    Guide to Building a VS 2008 User Control in VB

    Quite often we need a VB control that has requirements that don't quite exist within the current control set, such as all data-entry controls be on a single page with scroll bars. Read on to learn more...

    Animation In Visual Basic .NET: Interacting with Objects

    Discover how to Interact with the objects on a playing field. The article uses a game as a base for the code.

    Visual Basic Development 101: VS 2010 Part 2: Menus and Tools

    This article is part two of an introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. It covers how to navigate through the different menus and tools. It specifically covers Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition. Read along to learn how to write a very simple Hello World application using Windows Forms.

    Visual Basic .NET Development 101: Learning and Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a great integrated development environment for turning out top quality .NET framework applications. VB 2010 Express provides the same basic tools without some of the high-end team development pieces. This first of a two-part article will introduce the user to the VB 2010 Express product.

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    USING VC++ .NET

    Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard

    During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.

    Nuts & Bolts

    .NET NUTS & BOLTS

    .NET Framework: Use Your Own Cache Wrapper to Help Performance

    See how you can use the .NET framework to create your own wrapper classes in C# programming to help boost your application performance when accessing a bunch of reference or other look-up type data that you frequently use.

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    VISUAL BASIC TODAY

    Controlling Program Flow in Visual Basic 2010

    VB.NET provides a solid set of programming tools to implement flow control. VB.NET 2010 includes the For Each construct, making it possible to easily iterate over a list of items with little to no extra coding. This article examines the different VB.NET keywords and gives examples of how they're used.

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    PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS

    Understanding .NET Framework Task Parallel Library Cancellations

    TPL includes Cancellations and AggregateExceptions for interrupting work and dealing with collections of exceptions often generated when multiple Tasks are interrupted. There are patterns to implementing Cancellations and this article demonstrates some of the more common patterns.