With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it. Q What happens when I check "Enable application framework" in my ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Developers frequently need to process ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

Lambda expressions were first introduced in .NET 3.5, at the same time that Language Integrated Query (LINQ) was made available. Lambda expressions are like anonymous methods but with much more ...