(Paul Kimmel) Anonymous methods are similar to C++ inline methods. Basically, an anonymous method is the method body without the method header defined at the point of use. In .NET, anonymous methods are used for delegates. (Think event handlers.)

Code reusuability is (or at least should be) one of the major goals of any good object-oriented programmer. Reusuable code cuts development time and also minimizes the chances of introducing new bugs into an application. Fortunately, the ASP.NET framework has made code reusuability easier and mu

Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET is is the complete technical guide to upgrading Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET, covering all upgrade topics from APIs to ZOrders. It shows how to fix upgrade issues with forms, language, data access, and COM+ S

(Michael Jones) Reflection is truly a paradigm shift for developers using Microsoft’s line of development tools. The runtime availability of assembly metadata provides developers with new flexibility and the ability to develop interesting software tools. Developers often use reflection to load assem

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you’ll encounter. They’ll step you through a quick p

(W. Jason Gilmore) Arrays offer an ideal means for storing, manipulating, sorting, and retrieving the kinds of data sets that programmers spend a lot of time working with. PHP supports the array data type. This article explains the array-based features and functions it supports.

(Wei-Meng Lee) If you have been a hardcore VB6 programmer and you’ve hesitated about switching to Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2005 will change your mind and you’ll want to take the leap forward to move to .NET.

(David McAmis) Since the introduction of Visual Studio, Microsoft has held a near monopoly on integrated development environments(IDEs) for it’s own developer tools. With the release of Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft’s grip on the developer tools market has slipped with a number

(Armirthalingam Prasanna) The Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform introduces a new namespace called System.Transactions that brings in a lightweight, simplified transaction model. This article discusses the shortcomings of current transaction models and introduces System.Transactions for .NET Framework 2.0

(Scott Mitchell) The .NET Framework 1.x contains a variety of built-in collection types that can be found in the System.Collections namespace. These built-in collections include the commonly used ArrayList and Hashtable collections, along with the CollectionBase class which serves as a great class t