C# might be more elegant with escape sequences, but that doesn't mean Visual Basic is weaker in this area. Sometimes you just need to escape. I'm speaking, of course, about escape sequences in strings ...

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In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...

I've had to do a lot of work with pointers when working with the API. Hopefully some of you might find these items useful when you have to do the same.<BR><BR><BR>Obviously, you will need StrPtr, ...

Working with date and time values often requires an ability to convert these values into string values in a particular format. In this article, I’ll look at a simple way of converting these values ...