(Nilpo) In VBScript, as with any programming language, it is extremely important to familiarize yourself with variables and how they work. Variable usage in VBScript is highly simplified, but before we begin, let’s take a look at what variables are exactly.

(Tony Patton) Microsoft .NET 3.5 introduces the DataPager control, which delivers a paging interface that is tied to the ListView control. DataPager also communicates with its corresponding ListView control regarding user input. Here’s an explanation of how you can use the DataPager control to page

(Lalit Dwivedi) When you develop an application in Microsoft Access, your combo boxes will, by default, incorporate autocomplete. However, Visual Basic does not include this intrinsic support. If you want autocomplete in VB, you’ve got to do it yourself. This tip shows you how.

(Paul Kimmel) Neither male or female parents are superfluous. Parents teach children things implicitly by their habits and sometimes explicitly when the kids are listening. Sometimes, a parent has a bad habit; the child sees the consequences and says “I don’t want that bad thing to happen to me!” So

(Bipin Joshi) Developing a nice custom control is just one part of the story. As a control author you should also pay attention about the experience of other developers who will be using your control. In most of the real world cases developers use Visual Studio as the IDE for developing .NET applica

(Tess Fernandez) Since it took me so long to get Lab 6 out the door i’ll post the review right away… After this we only have one memory leak lab to go before you have gone through the whole lab set.

(Alessandro Del Sole) This is a typical article which raises from a practical situation. I needed to bind a DataGridView to a generic collection of custom classes, in an application written in Visual Basic 2008. The objective to reach is that, whenever editing, adding or deleting items from the Data

(Tess Fernandez) It’s been about a week since I posted the debugging challenge for this lab, things have been a bit busy lately so sorry about the tardiness on posting the lab.

(Mike Gold) A while ago I wrote an article on a strategy for extending the string class in the .NET Framework. The problem with extending many .NET 2.0 classes was that they were sealed, so you could not inherit from them, making extending them painful. Well it looks like Microsoft has waved their

(Kenneth Downs) Last week we started a new sub-series on queries. Today we are going to see one of the most important parts of any query, the JOIN clause. The JOIN is the fundamental mechanism for combining data from different tables.