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I have always been a fan of Super Mario game (and its variants) ever since the first time I touched
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Recently I came across a codeproject article about extension methods in VB.NET, where one reader complained that he could not
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The following is a list of some new language-specific features available to C# 3.0 and VB 9.0, available in Visual
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The DefaultEvent attribute indicates a class’s default event. If the class is a component and you double-click on it in
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‘If st is an empty string, e.g.:Dim st as String = String.Empty ‘The following returns TRUE:Dim ok as Boolean =
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Early-binding: Variable types are defined at compile time (e.g. string, integers): String st = “hello world”;Boolean ok = st.Contains(“hello”); The
Read moreRelaxed Delegates in VB.NET 2008
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms364068(VS.80).aspx In VS2005 the following code cannot compile and gives an error saying that testSub does not have the
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