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VB grows up

Friday, 28 October 2005  

For experienced VB.NET developers this isn’t really anything new but having spent most of my time in the last five years writing web applications in PHP, I have to admit that I’m a bit of a late starter in this area. Having just recently worked on a new project using the .NET framework, I can tell you that as a former Visual Basic developer, I’m really impressed.

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XP manifest files

Tuesday, 27 September 2005  

Even though Windows XP supports skinnable interfaces, Visual Basic 6 applications will not automatically inherit the new look and feel. This is not surprising, considering VB6 has been around long before Windows XP came out. What is surprising though, is that your VB.NET applications also will not automatically inherit the new look.

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Lightweight ADO class

Friday, 9 September 2005  

When putting together dynamic web applications in an ASP environment, developers use ADO recordsets for the overwhelming majority of their database interfacing. Although most web applications will involve data entry forms, where the user will insert, update and delete database records, the biggest performance issues are in presenting recordset output to the client browser.

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VBScript hashtable

Tuesday, 30 August 2005  

For quite some time now, the more vigilant Windows IIS administrators have typically been configuring their hosts to have the “filesystem object” removed, due to an inherent security flaw which permits a malicious user to gain access to the servers directories and files.

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Hungarian notation

Monday, 6 June 2005  

Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of an object indicates its type and intended use. According to Charles Simonyi, the inventor of Hungarian notation and senior programmer (at the time) at Microsoft, it was invented so:

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