Dear Final Debug: I work as a Visual Basic programmer for a big insurance company. I won’t reveal my name because I don’t want my boss to know how frivolous I can be. Some guys here at … ...

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Prior to .NET, Visual Basic used an invisible form for the message queue, and thus you could open and close visible forms at will. In .NET, the message queue is associated with the main displayed form ...

Many developers who need to run or terminate an application from Visual Basic 6.0 rely on shell commands. However, you can also accomplish this task by using API functions. Time to code Let’s ...

You’ve got mail From our simple example, you can see that it is a relatively easy matter to add e-mail functionality to your Visual Basic application. But it gets even better.

ArtinSoft, a provider of automated software transformation technology, and Gizmox, a developer of the Visual WebGui rich Internet, cloud application development platform, have announced a new ...

Partly for legacy reasons, Visual Basic supplies an alternate shutdown mode. In somewhat simplified terms, Windows manages the message queue for events based on a window, or form. When this main form ...