Visual Basic in the News

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Understand how to use VB6's UseMnemonic Property

Tech Republic

by Peter Aitken

January 19, 2006

If you don't want the VB6 Label control to treat ampersands in the usual manner, then learn how to use the control's UseMnemonic property to get the result you want.

VB6's Label control lets you define an access key by including an ampersand (&) in the control's Caption property.

A Visual Studio Add-In That Converts C# Code To Visual Basic

MSDN Magazine

by Scott Swigart

January 16, 2006

Build a Visual Basic add-in that lets you copy C# code and paste it into Visual Studio as Visual Basic using the code converter of your choice. Scott Swigart shows you how.

While perusing the Web one day, looking for a code example, it occurred to me that Paste as would also be beneficial for Visual Studio. However, instead of simply converting the text formatting, it could convert the language of the code example.

Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center

msdn.microsoft.com

April 19, 2005

VBRun: The [Microsoft] Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center.

...some of the best Visual Basic 6.0 content in the MSDN Library. VB Fusion provides some specific examples of using Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET together. Stay the Path provides information and free training for Visual Basic 6 developers who are looking to explore Visual Basic .NET...

Visual Basic developers revolting

ZDNet UK

by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic.

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. Developers claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages. Microsoft said it will end standard support for Visual Basic 6 at the end of this month, ending free incident support and critical updates. Both services will be available for a fee for another three years.

VBTV: Building Web Applications with Visual Basic .NET - 300k

microsoft.com

by Microsoft

November 22, 2003

Welcome to VBTV-the ground-breaking, no holds barred Webcast built for Visual Basic developers by Visual Basic developers! VBTV is a new breed of Web-based seminar-part technical Webcast, part talk show, all Visual Basic .NET.

In Episode 3, Chris and Ari come to the realization that they're clueless about Web application development and call in the pros for some much-needed help. Susan Chory and Andres Sanabria, Microsoft's ASP.NET wizards, usher in some yuletide joy and show how nothing tops off the holidays like building Web applications with Visual Basic .NET. So snuggle up next to that PC, crack open the eggnog lattes, and tune in for what promises to be a very, very special episode of VBTV.Note: This download also contains all the demos from this episode.

September, 2003 Issue of TechTrax

MouseTrax Computing Solutions

by Various techies

TechTrax back on track and better than ever.

Microsoft Publisher users will be thrilled to know that we've snagged Publisher MVP, David Bartosik. The new version of Office (2003) will be available soon and David joins us this month with his article that provides you with some insight on the new version of Publisher.

The Yahoo ASP User Support group (Shawn Hall, Adrian Forbes, Ray Costanzo provide support for e-zine.)

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