In my recent article, "Is Visual Studio LightSwitch the New Access?", I looked at the suitability of LightSwitch as a replacement tool for departmental applications developed in Microsoft Access.

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Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

VB6 Tip: Making the most of user defined types (UDT) Your email has been sent A user defined type (UDT) is a Visual Basic technique for defining a data type that exactly meets the needs of your ...

In Visual Basic I'd write this: If stringVariable IsNot Nothing then Dim x as Integer x = stringVariable.Length End If I test the string for null/nothing because if I try to get the Length of a ...