Opening, Closing, and Hiding Forms with Visual Basic .NET
Having multiple forms as part of your Visual Basic .NET program may be nice, but when your Visual Basic .NET program runs, it normally displays one form. To make the other forms of your program appear [more…]
Building Your First DataSet in Visual Basic .NET
A DataSet can contain all the basic elements of a database: tables, keys, indexes, and even relations between tables. So by creating a DataSet, you'll be discovering the structure of a database at the [more…]
Understanding Data Types in Visual Basic .NET
Variables are essential to computer programming, just as they are in many other aspects of life. Any container with a label is the real-world equivalent of a variable. And you're surrounded by named containers [more…]
Getting a Look At Web Services
Web services promise to be the next major frontier in computing. Up until the advent of Web services, interoperability and integration (the exchange of data among computer systems) were extremely limited [more…]
Creating Event-Handling Procedures with Visual Basic .NET
Whenever the user takes any action, such as clicking the mouse, pressing a key, passing out on the keyboard, or putting a bullet through the monitor, the action is called an [more…]
Understanding Scope in Visual Basic .NET
VB.NET programs are subdivided into zones, just as the United States is divided into states, counties, and cities. Just as law enforcement agents have different sizes of jurisdictions [more…]
Using Visual Basic .NET to Manipulate Your Windows
Visual Basic .NET gives you three ways to display windows on the screen. [more…]
Considering Design Strategies for Web Services
You should consider several strategies to better understand how you will design your Web services. How will you organize your code into projects, classes, methods, properties, and events? After you have [more…]
Checking Out the Visual Basic .NET User Interface
Because a computer monitor can display only a limited amount of information on the screen at any given time, Visual Basic .NET provides several different windows for displaying vital information about [more…]
Discovering Visual Basic .NET's Internet Technology: ASP .NET
ASP .NET is the technology built into .NET that you use to create Web pages and other Internet-based applications. ASP.NET is not merely the next version of ASP [more…]
Looking at the Pros and Cons of Using a Prefab Web Service
One of the great things about .NET is the capability to use someone else's software that was written as a Web service. This means that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you need to incorporate [more…]
Planning for Web Services: Gathering a Team
If you want to be successful in doing anything in life, you must plan. With real estate, you hear the often-quoted phrase, "location, location, location. [more…]
