April 2004 - Posts

• Multicolumn Combobox?

  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 .NET Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:47 AM by vbfaq | 8 Comments Filed under: Windows Forms, Controls

• Can I run Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET on the same machine?

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 2:56 PM by vbfaq | 6 Comments Filed under: General

• Does the .NET Framework include an equivalent for [Insert Win32 API function here]?

  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: Read More... Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:37 AM by vbfaq | 2 Comments Filed under: General

• Workaround: Arrays with non-zero lower bounds

  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 a collection Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:59 AM by vbfaq | 3 Comments Filed under: Language

• Why doesn't VB support non-zero lower bounds for arrays?

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:01 AM by vbfaq | 1 Comments Filed under: Language

• Why did Visual Basic .NET introduce AndAlso and OrElse?

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:47 AM by vbfaq | 0 Comments Filed under: Language

• XML Documentation?

  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://panopticoncentral.net/archive/2003/11/08/239.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:23 AM by vbfaq | 3 Comments Filed under: General, Visual Basic 2005 (Whidbey)

• Operator Overloading?

  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 VB.NET Read More... Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 11:54 PM by vbfaq | 3 Comments Filed under: Language, Visual Basic 2005 (Whidbey)

• Ask Your VB.NET Questions Here!

  Do you have a question about the VB.NET Language, Compiler or IDE ? If so, then you've come to the right place, comment on this post and your question will be added to the list to be answered. Of course, depending on the nature of your comment, and the Read More... Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 1:01 AM by vbfaq | 137 Comments