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, ...

Visual Basic.NET is getting comfortable in its new position as a top five programming language in the TIOBE index, which measures popularity based on search engine data. After hitting a high in the ...

I have an old VB6 project (DLL) that someone wants converted to VB.NET. It's been a long time since I've worked with VB6, and I've never done VB.NET, though I've done enough C#. I've read up on the ...

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 ...

I need to learn .Net ASAP. I'm going to be programming using .Net soon, and I guess I'll be using ASP.Net, VB.Net and maybe C#. I will read the Ars .Net article, but that is a year old so I thought ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...