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By Joe Kunk 08/01/2012 A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this ...
The sample screen shown in Figure 1 displays a list comprised of both a randomly-generated ID code and six-character name; both are displayed to help illustrate the search functionality. The code ...
For those folks wanting to use Murach's Visual Basic 6 in a classroom setting, a complete instructor's guide is available on the Murach Web site as well. About the Author ...
The logical choice for .Net development is C#.” New features in Visual Basic 14 “may help some current Visual Basic developers, but they are not geared at gaining a new audience,” he says.
Instead of presenting facets of Visual Basic code in a fragmented manner, Murach's book presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming in the context of real-world ...
In North America most Visual Basic developers continued to use VB6 and older versions — 45 percent of all North American developers, compared with 34 percent for Visual Basic.Net.
Available as a stand-alone download for use from Windows’ terminal or as part of the Visual Studio Code tools for Power Platform, it’s a relatively simple set of command line tools.
As Visual Basic morphs into an object-oriented language, programmers face serious retraining and code transition issues. Here's how they're coping.
How to Link Sheets Using Visual Basic in Excel. Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use ...