This step-by-step article describes how to make a UserControl object behave as a control container at design-time after you add the UserControl object to a Windows Form. There may be situations where you want to drag a control to your UserControl object. To permit this, the UserControl object must behave as a control container. More info

This step-by-step article shows you how to do six basic file input/output (I/O) operations in Visual Basic .NET. If you are new to .NET, you will find that the object model for file operations in .NET is similar to the FileSystemObject (FSO) that is popular with many Visual Studio 6.0 developers. More info

In some scenarios, providing a static user interface is sufficient. However, if the number of business objects to display to the user varies, you need an adaptable means of presentation. One way to accomplish this is to programmatically add new tabs and controls to your UI at runtime. In this example, you will add a new instance of a User Control to a TabPage then add the TabPage to the TabControl on a Windows Form. More info

Visual Basic .NET is a major component of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET suite. The .NET version of Visual Basic is a new improved version with more features and additions. After these new additions, VB qualify to become a full object-oriented language such as C++. In this article, I will try to introduce you to VB.NET and will cover new additions to the language. I will also compare VB 6.0 and VB.NET and how to develop simple applications in VB.NET. More info

Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. It has multiple customization/modification/reporting tools. Currently there is upgrade campaign to version 8.0 and due to the discontinuation of the technical support for Microsoft Great Plains Standard on Ctree and Pervasive SQL - we see substantial increase in migration needs: migration from ctree/Pervasive to MSDE/MS SQL Server. This in turn increases interest to customization and customization upgrade. If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Great Plains – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further. More info

When large queries to a database are executed, the application may become unresponsive for a long period of time. To avoid this behavior and decrease the waiting time of the user, the query can be executed on a background thread, releasing the application for other tasks until the data is returned from the database and databinding is performed. This step-by-step article demonstrates how to query a database on a background thread and use databinding to display the results in a DataGrid object. More info

This article describes how to use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET code to dynamically create templates. More info

This article demonstrates how to retrieve information from a text file and use an ArrayList class to display that information to the user. More info

This step-by-step article describes several subclassing techniques that are available in Visual Basic .NET. More info

Very few programmers have the luxury of toiling on their code for a really long time - we are expected to churn apps out in a quick manner. Which means that to be productive, we must use tools that enable us to be that. So let's get practical, religion aside, with an eye on programmer productivity, here are the top 10 reasons why VB.NET is better than C#, in no particular order More info