(Sam Allen) How many characters are contained in your VB.NET String? With the Length property on the String type, you can determine this count very fast. Here, we look an example of Length and also touch on the Length property’s implementation.

(Ben Nadel) This almost doesn’t warrant its own post; but, it seems to be one of those small factoids that I can’t keep in my head without writing it down. And so, a quick post to demonstrate creating repeated sequences with the modulus operator (MOD or %).

(Mukesh Kumar) Creating a database connection is somewhat time-consuming because it involves the overhead of network-level handshaking and security credentialing for each new connection request. ADO.NET uses a technique called connection pooling, which minimizes the cost of repeatedly opening and cl

(Peter Vogel) So you’ve got this long running application that gradually takes over all the memory on the computer that it’s running on. You’ve got a resource leak somewhere; but how do you track it down?

(Richard Newcombe) In this article we are going to look at Bitmap Animations in VB.NET. In VB6 we had to make extensive use of API’s in order to load and initialize large quantities of smaller images. Now in .NET we have the GDI+ dynamic library that has a large selection of graphic classes and func

This tutorial will show you how you can encrypt query strings in ASP.NET using the VB.NET programming language.

(Sourabh Sharma) This project is about How to Convert any Number to Words. You can Convert any Decimal Number to Word using VB.NET.

This is the first in a series of articles introducing the parallel programming techniques that are available in the C# programming language and the .NET framework version 4.0. The first part describes some of the concepts of parallel programming.

(Manjunath Shrikantiah) There are times when users ask for some features in web applications similar to those in Windows applications. I have tried to cover one of them here. This article explains how you can navigate through controls in a GridView using up/down/right and left arrows.

(Suprotim Agarwal) The IDictionaryEnumerator enumerates the elements of a non-generic dictionary like a HashTable. It is a strongly typed enumerator which inherits IEnumerator by adding three properties: