Programming Tutorials

By: Issac : 2009-01-30

Description: Implicit conversion is done automatically by .net compiler lets see a example of how it is done

By: Issac : 2009-01-30

Description: There is one datastructure in .net that is very similar to Hash table it is called as Name Value collection, which is used to store data in a unique format Name, Value format, Hash table stores in Key, value format but NameValueCollection can hold more than one value for a reference key.

By: Issac : 2009-01-30

Description: Another important data structure in .net is Queue, it works with the FIFO mechanism, like a linear pipe where water enters one side and exits the other side, the item enqueued first will be dequeued first.

By: Issac : 2009-01-30

Description: Stack is another useful data structure in VB.net which is based upon push-pop method. It works on LIFO mechanism, the last value inserted will be the first one to be removed.

By: Issac : 2009-01-30

Description: ArrayList is a very supple data structure in VB.NET; it can contain a list of values. These values can be handled very easily (i.e. they can be easily be inserted, deleted or viewed

By: Syed M Hussain : 2009-01-18

Description: In this article I will explain how to connect to a MySql database in VB.net. MySql is an open source free database. In order to follow along with this tutorial you will need to have MySql installed on your machine. You can download MySql from the MySql website.www.mysql.com.

By: Steven Holzner : 2008-11-25

Description: In this case, I've turned Option Strict on, which means that Visual Basic will not automatically convert data types when you assign a value of one type to a variable of another, so it'll have problems with the statement highlighted above, where I assign a double precision floating point variable to an integer variable. To fix this problem, I have to do a specific type conversion. I do this with the CInt function, which converts its argument to type Integer

By: Steven Holzner : 2008-11-25

Description: How can you make choices in your code, deciding what to do next depending on the values in your variables? You can use the If statement, which is the bread-and-butter of Visual Basic conditionals, and which lets you evaluate your data and execute appropriate code. Here's how this statement works:

By: Steven Holzner : 2008-11-25

Description: It's time to create a new variable—but what type should you use? For that matter, exactly what kinds of variable types are there and what do they do? Even if you remember what types there are, you probably won't remember the range of possible values a particular variable type allows.

By: Steven Holzner : 2008-11-25

Description: VB Statements are execution statements that perform actions. Besides having single statements in your code, statements can also be grouped into blocks, as we'll see when we discuss conditions like the If statement, which might look like this, where I'm testing the value in the variable BankBalance to see if it's less than 0