VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

Comparing strings with and without case sensitivity in VB.NET Your email has been sent Irina Medvinskaya offers an example that shows how VB.NET's String.Compare method can come in handy when you need ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

Learn the best way to combine strings in VB.NET Your email has been sent Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also ...

"I think we can say that VB.NET finally made it to ASP.NET Core," developer Mohammed Hamdy Ghanem told Visual Studio Magazine about his new open-source project. The project, eShopOnWeb in VB.NET (.NET ...

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Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...