Introduction Following are a few tools categorized by development area that I would consider a necessity to any developer who is buried knee deep in hardcore .NET development. This is not meant t...

Paschal L posts: Just discovered that you have now Continue which allow you to close the current loop and jump into the next step. The keyword can be used with For, Do, and While loops. In nested ...

Paul Vick posts: The most aggravating thing to hear from customers at the PDC? “But I heard from (someone) that VB is (going to be dropped/going away/dead) and that we should switch to (insert ...

I’ve seen it asked over and over, “How do I disable the close button without having to remove the system menu, minimize and maximize buttons?”.  I’ve created an article that shows two separate meth...

Download source code - 6.34kb Introduction I’ve seen it asked many times, “How do I disable the close button on a Windows Form, but still have the system menu, minimize and maximize available?”...

Cameron Beccario discusses a performance optimization technique for converting between Object expressions to structures.  I know, he posted this a couple of months ago… but somehow I missed it.  Be...

Now that I’ve switched to .TEXT, I know have a place that is easily accessible for posting articles. OK, so right now their under a Story section, but hey at least there in an easy to get to locat...

By Cory Smith Note: This sample has been replaced by the ‘Control Your Console’ ConsoleEx sample available from the Samples listing. In addition to being able to specify the color, you can cont...

Adam Nathan has written a pretty good explanation of using ‘binary compatibility’ between your .NET assemblies and VB. bookmarked

Hmm… the statistics aren’t updating? Cool, Kirk pointed me to a SQL script that adds the necessary trigger. Hopefully, after this post, they will be working. UPDATE: Working like a champ now!...