With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

I was recently trudging along a trail to fish for some trout in a remote Northwest Montana mountain lake when I met a guy coming out. Whereas I was gasping up the rocky path in military surplus camo ...

Another goal is to create a platform on which developers can more easily mix languages within a single project. Although the product achieves this goal, it does so with numerous new features, which ...

An *integrated development environment* (IDE) is a feature-rich program that supports many aspects of software development. The Visual Studio IDE is a creative launching pad that you can use to edit, ...

You can use the `partial` keyword (`Partial` in Visual Basic) to divide the declaration of a class or structure among several declarations. You can use as many partial declarations as you want. The ...