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This dynamic keyword can be put to good use when doing COM. And in turn you could be more productive when you need to complete tasks regarding the Windows API (that expose COM functionality).

With many applications, spell checking can be a vital aspect to include. Most people are accustomed to the spell checking capabilities of products like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. There are products available for purchase that can add spell checking capability, such as SharpSpell that can cost hundreds of dollars. Unfortunately, there is a lack of Open Source, freely available tools that can provide the functionality of Microsoft Word. That is why I began to work on a spell checking IExtenderProvider that could extend any control that inherits TextBoxBase (both TextBox and RichTextBox inherit TextBoxBase).

This article will explain 6 important concepts Stack, heap, value types, reference types, boxing and unboxing. This article starts first explaining what happens internally when you declare a variable and then it moves ahead to explain 2 important concepts stack and heap. Article then talks about reference types and value types and clarifies some of the important fundamentals around them. Finally the article concludes by demonstrating how performance is hampered due to boxing and unboxing with a sample code.

Recently, Microsoft merged the Visual Basic and C# teams to help ensure that C# and Visual Basic grow together. And Visual Basic has been updated to include a number of C# features that it was previously missing. This article explores some of these new features that were added to Visual Basic 2010.

Discover how easy it is to call the Twitter API from your .NET applications.

Networks can model all sorts of situations including physical networks as well as non-physical situations. Learn how to use network algorithms to test connectivity, build inexpensive connections, assign work, and split networks as inexpensively as possible.

Visual Basic 9 completely eliminates the barrier between the code you write and the XML you're trying to express. Creating, querying, and transforming XML is much more intuitive and productive than ever before.

This article describes three approaches to parsing the sentences from a body of text; three approaches are shown as a means of describing the pros and cons for performing this task using each different approach.

This is a simple to use Custom Button control, but with a lot of visual design options

Visual Basic (in some of its forms) has always been Microsoft’s choice in dynamic quarter. With the latest release of Visual Basic 9.0 (comes with Visual Studio 2008), dynamic features of VB have been further improved. So, in VB 9.0 you can use extension methods, local variable type inference, lambda expressions and others that make VB even more dynamic. What’s unique about VB is that dynamic behavior can be controlled with a simple directive..