Visual Basic Frequently Asked Questions

Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie , MSDN This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 Suppose you want to run a command line application, open up another Windows program, or even bring up the default web browser or email program... how can you do this...

Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie , MSDN This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 This common question is often phrased as "How do I find the number of hours between two dates?", substituting minutes, seconds, days, or whatever interval you are looking...

Posted by: Phil Weber , VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 I see from our referrer logs that many people are coming here seeking information on multicolumn combo boxes (thanks to Ian's question ). Here's the scoop... No, the...

Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie , MSDN This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003 and Visual Basic 6.0 J. Henshaw asks "Is it possible to run both VB6 and VB.Net on the same machine,or do I have to remove VB6 to be able to use VB.NET", and the answer...

Posted by: Phil Weber , VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005 Judging by the questions I see in online discussion forums, many VB developers are not yet aware of this article, which lists Win32 API functions and their .NET equivalents...

Posted by: Phil Weber , VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005 OK, now that Paul Vick has explained why VB.NET doesn't support arrays with non-zero lower bounds, let's see how we can do them anyway. ;-) Say you want to store...

Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie , MSDN This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005 Another answer from Paul Vick , Technical Lead on VB.NET, explaining the changes in array bounds from Visual Basic 6.0: Why doesn't VB support non-zero lower bounds...

Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie , MSDN This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005 Paul Vick , Technical Lead on VB.NET, and the author of the Visual Basic .NET Language Specification, discusses the new short-circuiting boolean operators added in...

Posted by: Phil Weber , VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005 Ali Parvaresh asks: How can I document VB.NET source codes like what you do for C#? This is another feature scheduled for Visual Basic .NET 2005 (ref http...

Posted by: Phil Weber , VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2005 (“Whidbey”) Gokhan Altinoren asks: What was the design decision behind the fact that VB.NET does not support operator overloading? Will this feature be in the...

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