Visual Basic

Exceptions occur when an application experiences some unexpected problem at run time. This lesson discusses how to use the try catch finally block to anticipate potential problems and attempt to shield the end user from those problems as much as is possible. We discuss best practices when checking…

Classes can contain many different types of information, not just Properties and Methods. We begin demonstrating the use of Enumerations because often in the .NET Framework Class Library, properties can only be set to a pre-determined subset of possible values. To illustrate this point we create our…

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new auto-implemented properties in Visual Basic 2010. He also demonstrates some of the code examples in his Help topic, Auto-Implemented Properties. Kathleen McGrath Visual…

This is Part 3 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. This is the second video of Part 3: Navigation, layout, and views. In this second video, we'll add an app bar for navigation and we'll add a fluid layout for our page that works in…

Today's Hardware Friday post is kind of thing that many gamers lust for, a hardware extension for their simulator of choice, be it as complicated as a airplane cockpit in their garage or something a little more approachable like a DIY hardware dashboard for your racing simulator. DIY Dashboard  The…

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010.  You can also learn more in his Help topic, Statements in Visual Basic. Kathleen McGrath Visual Studio User…

So you think you know the VB language? Come put your expertise to the test with this unique set of brainteasers and corner cases, from the unexpected to the downright mysterious…Lucian is the Spec Lead for Microsoft Visual Basic in Redmond, USA. Before that he was a post-doc at the University…

Today's Modern Monday post is kind of a repeat, but also kind of not. In the past we've highlighted building a "Hello RSS World" for Windows 8 series, Hello World... Building a simple RSS reader for Windows 8 Metro with HTML and JavaScript. Today's project takes so to a similar type of…

Since the launch of this series Microsoft has released Windows 8 along with new editions of Visual Studio. In this short update video, Bob Tabor explains which versions of Visual Studio 2012 Express you should download and explains the difference between Visual Studio for Windows 8…

In this interview, programming writer, McLean Schofield, demonstrates how to add data-bound WPF controls to an application. You can also learn more in the topic Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio. Kathleen McGrath Visual Studio User Education http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/