http://visualbasic.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Visual Basic GuideSite. http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hi http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2009-06-26T20:46:40Z Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/07/02/vb-net-for-beginners-lesson-3.htm Types, Procedures, Properties, and MethodsLesson 3 of the Visual Basic .NET for Beginners tutorial has been posted. The tutorial is for people new to programming Visual Basic. This course totally... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/07/02/vb-net-for-beginners-lesson-3.htm Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:49:49 +0000 2009-07-02T11:49:49Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/26/vb-net-for-beginners-lesson-2.htm Lesson 2 of the Visual Basic .NET for Beginners - the tutorial for people new to programming Visual Basic - has been posted. This course totally replaces a previous course... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/26/vb-net-for-beginners-lesson-2.htm Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:46:40 +0000 2009-06-26T20:46:40Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/17/autotest-a-linq-to-xml-example-system.htm Microsoft's LINQ technology combined with XML can revolutionize the way you program, but it's difficult to make the transition from more traditional ways of programming to LINQ. Moving to XML... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/17/autotest-a-linq-to-xml-example-system.htm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:01:03 +0000 2009-06-17T16:01:03Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/14/the-beginning-tutorial.htm The beginning VB.NET tutorial on the site has been completely rewritten. When I read through the old one, I could only shake my head and mutter, "What was I thinking?". Actually,... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/14/the-beginning-tutorial.htm Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:24:59 +0000 2009-06-14T01:24:59Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/07/partial-classes.htm Partial Classes were introduced with Framework 2.0 and are used in a lot of different ways in VB.NET, including ASP.NET and Windows Forms. The article about them was originally written... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/07/partial-classes.htm Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:47:43 +0000 2009-06-07T12:47:43Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/06/focus-on-inheritance.htm Inheritance is the difference between VB6 and VB.NET ... Well - from a purely theoretical "object oriented" perspective anyway. VB6 had all of the other OOP features ... but it... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/06/06/focus-on-inheritance.htm Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:53:00 +0000 2009-06-06T15:53:00Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/28/the-difference-between-jagged-arrays-and-rectangular-arrays.htm You can think of arrays as being a little like a spreadsheet. A two dimensional array is like a spreadsheet of cells. But rectangular and jagged arrays have some big... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/28/the-difference-between-jagged-arrays-and-rectangular-arrays.htm Thu, 28 May 2009 17:34:06 +0000 2009-05-28T17:34:06Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/26/structures-and-arrays-how-theyre-different.htm A structure and a multidimensional array have a lot in common in Visual Basic. Often, you can use either one and your program will work just as well either way.... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/26/structures-and-arrays-how-theyre-different.htm Tue, 26 May 2009 17:32:40 +0000 2009-05-26T17:32:40Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/15/friend-and-protected-friend-in-vbnet.htm In addition to the three access modifiers we have always had - Public, Private and Friend - VB.NET adds one and a half more - Protected and Protected Friend. The... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/15/friend-and-protected-friend-in-vbnet.htm Fri, 15 May 2009 17:09:49 +0000 2009-05-15T17:09:49Z http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/11/using-shared-access-in-visual-basic-net.htm Shared access is a little opposite to the main thread of OOP ... Object Oriented Programming ... because it allows you to "break the rules" that normally keep objects separate... http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/05/11/using-shared-access-in-visual-basic-net.htm Mon, 11 May 2009 10:02:06 +0000 2009-05-11T10:02:06Z