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Vista-like TaskDialog control for .NET Framework 2.0, compatible with Windows XP

Will VB's new LINQ to XML prowess finally gain it the community respect accorded to other mainstream languages?

The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part Two of this series will walk you through VB 9's new LINQ support features and other time-saving enhancements.

The release of Visual Studio 2008 updates Visual Basic to version 9.0, with several key language enhancements and LINQ support. Part one of this series will walk you through using nullable types, type inference, the If operator, and other time-saving enhancements.

Discover anew why Visual Basic is one of the most successful programming languages in history by exploring some of the new features Microsoft added to Visual Studio and Visual Basic.

With Visual Basic 9.0, working with XML gets much easier for developers. Here's a look at some of the new features, including LINQ support, XML literals, embedded expressions, XML properties, and XML Schema IntelliSense.

JPG Capture is a utility designed for the developers to capture the debugging screenshot, while it is also ideal for general screen capture purpose. JPG Capture can capture the desktop screen into picture files in sequence. Users can define the capture hotkey, capture area (Current window, Full screen or Rectangular area), picture format ( .jpg, .gif, and .bmp etc) and destination.

This article explains a 3D Geometry library developed using VB.Net

In order to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a suite of new technologies was added to the upcoming release of Visual Basic 2008 that includes type inference. In earlier versions of Visual Basic, a member's type was assumed to be Object unless a different type was explicitly declared in code. A drawback to declaring a variable this way is that the compiler is only able to assume that the value of the variable will be of type Object. The experience for the developer is that IntelliSense is only able to display information for the members that are common to all Objects, though there may be other members available on the actual instance at run time. With late binding, the other members are bound at run time, which means they will not be verified in any way until it is time for the line to be executed. So, nonexistent members can be referenced in code, and the problem will not be caught by the compiler. This can easily result in a MissingMemberException and generally requires you to keep track of more information on your own...

The Analog Clock control is a control that has almost all functionality that clock control can have and it is fully modifiable.