99% of Microsoft samples and web resources are created for C#. If a VB developer wants to learn something new he has to figure it out for himself. Read on to learn how complicated it is just to get the right tools for the job.


99% of Microsoft samples and web resources are created for C#. If a VB developer wants to learn something new he has to figure it out for himself. Read on to learn how complicated it is just to get the right tools for the job.

In each entrepreneurial venture there are common hurdles – or opportunities. Here is the good news: Support in the form of products, people and promotion is available from known entities to help innovative entrepreneurs launch and grow an idea.

Learn how to play Flash Videos and YouTube videos from a VB.NET application.

Learn how to use tracing to figure out how your code is being executed and to track its execution sequence.

Hannes du Preez shows you how to embed Windows Media Player into a program and play any form of media through it.

Windows Phone 8 introduces some very hot features from Common Language Runtime that provide tremendous benefits to Windows Phone application developers. Read on for one man's list of top 6 CLR features.

By default Web API action methods use the same HTTP method name that they are serving. There are several ways in which you can customize these action method names. Read on to learn more.

Arun Karthick walks you through the ChannelFactory caching feature introduced as part of WCF 4.5, providing insight into the various caching modes available, along with suitable source code samples.
Are you a Web developer using HTML? Take this short Tech IQ Test to see if you already know enough to start building Windows 8 Applications. You might be surprised at how close you are!
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

99% of Microsoft samples and web resources are created for C#. If a VB developer wants to learn something new he has to figure it out for himself. Read on to learn how complicated it is just to get the right tools for the job.

Arun Karthick walks you through the ChannelFactory caching feature introduced as part of WCF 4.5, providing insight into the various caching modes available, along with suitable source code samples.

Starting this week, Leap Motion has promised the arrival of its Leap Motion gesture controllers.

Microsoft announced native support for 3D Printers; however, are they ready for prime time?
Microsoft Build 2013 presented Microsoft's plans for the coming months for developers. On the first day, there were a number of announcements ranging from Windows 8.1 to a Bing platform.