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Prepare Visual Basic for Conversion to C#
Last updated: Friday, April 8, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - May/June
There’s nothing wrong with coding in VB, but to stay contemporary, you need to get coding in C#. Paul shows you how to convert legacy VB files to C# without re-inventing the wheel.
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MVP Corner: Looking Back on the Great VB/C# War
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - July/August
Recently, I received an email comment on a blog post I wrote roughly 3 1/2 years ago. I had completely forgotten about writing the post, but as soon as I saw the title I remembered every word of it. It also got me thinking about who the guy was that wrote it... then and now.
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From Zero to Business Application in 15 Minutes
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.
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Inside Visual Studio LightSwitch
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch uses a model-centric architecture for defining, building, and executing a 3-tier LightSwitch application.
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The Razor View Engine
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
The new view engine for ASP.NET MVC and WebMatrix combines simplicity and functionality to facilitate clean view development. In this article, I’ll dive into the Razor View Engine, the new default view engine for the ASP.NET MVC framework and WebMatrix products. Razor’s main goal is to simplify view development and to improve developer productivity while providing a clean view infrastructure.
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Using Entity Framework in Silverlight with Visual Basic
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - November/December
A common requirement in building applications is the need to serialize objects and pass them across tiers between the server and the client. These objects typically hold references to each other, and managing this “graph” and tracking all the changes so that they can be properly persisted to the database can get complicated quickly.
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Centering Text on a WPF Shape Using a User Control
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - July/August
WPF excels at creating great looking applications.
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Ask the Doc Detective
Last updated: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - May/June
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Post Mortem Web Project
Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
First Premier Bankcard (www.firstpremier.com) is the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the United States.First Premier employs multiple thousands of people spread across the state of South Dakota. A major percentage of the employees at First Premier work in call-center operations helping people apply for credit cards.
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Practical Uses of Lambdas
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - January/February
Deborah covers many of the different ways you can use lambda expressions to work with your lists and make your code easier to read and write.Lambdas provide shortcuts for sorting, filtering, finding and working with information in lists, making your code easier to read and write.
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Chapter 3 - The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
Although you can create lots of kinds of projects both for Windows and the Web with Visual Basic 2010, there is a common set of files for each project. In this chapter you learn which files give the structure to each project and how the files influence the building of an application. You also get an overview of references, namespaces, classes, modules, and Visual Basic keywords.
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Hour 1 - Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2010 Programming Tour
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
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Objects - Chapter 1
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
“This excerpt is from the book, ‘Windows 7 Device Driver’ by Ronald D. Reeves, Published Nov 16, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theAddison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series series.l, ISBN 139780321670212, Copyright 2011. For more info please visit the publisher site: http://www.informit.com/title/0321670213
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Visual Basic 2012 Unleashed, 2nd Edition - Chapter 2 - Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE
Last updated: Friday, March 6, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
By Alessandro Del Sole, Published Jan 18, 2013 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. Copyright 2013, ISBN-10: 0-672-33631-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33631-7. http://www.informit.com/store/visual-basic-2012-unleashed-9780672336317