Learn about trace testing and the tools available for Visual Studio.
Using Tracing to Test Your Visual Basic Apps
Published 09/11/2014
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Incremental Intellisense Improvements in Visual Studio 2010
Published 12/18/2009
Learn about the history of debugging and evolutionary improvements in Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010.
Running Custom Tracepoint Macros in Visual Studio
Published 07/06/2009
Programming is hard,debugging is hard. Doing both well is critical to being a good programmer. To make things easier for us Paul Kimmel demonstrates how to run custom Tracepoint with macros.
XML Documents from Comments
Published 01/08/2008
Intellisense is a programmer's best friend. The framework is too big to memorize, but Intellisense can make finding things manageable. Extend Intellisense into your own code with XML comments in Visual Studio 8 and 9.
Compilers Demystified: Function Pointers in Visual Basic 6.0
Published 06/21/2007
Learn how to enable VB6 applications to use function pointers and how to embed native code without using external DLLs.
Implementing a Custom TraceListener
Published 12/04/2002
A mainstay of software engineering is a concept called tracing. The basic idea is that you insert statements into your code that provide information about your application while it is running. (.NET)
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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.
When to Use Static and Non-Static
Published 09/29/2014
When is it appropriate to use a static construct? Learn about it here.
Databases and Windows 8.1 and VB
Published 10/01/2014
Even if you're a newbie, working with databases with VB.NET is a manageable task.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Published 06/18/2014
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.
