VB.NET allows you to use Web services as if they were entirely local objects since most of the marshaling between the client and the server is taking place in the background. This tip shows you how to create a simple Web service.

Visual Studio .NET simplifies the process of installing your applications by providing an easy way to add the Setup Wizard to your applications. In this tip, Irina Medvinskaya will create a simple VB.NET Windows application and add the Setup Wizard to it in order to allow the Windows application to install.

If you want to allow users to print form components in run-time, the PrintDocument component lets you offer users this functionality. The PrintDocument component is an object that allows users to send an output to a printer from Windows Forms applications. In this tip, I show you how to use the component in your VB.NET ...

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code that shows you how to generate GUIDs with VB.NET.

Irina Medvinskaya offers an example that shows how VB.NET's String.Compare method can come in handy when you need to compare two string variables.

Developers should have a basic proficiency of a language's data types. In this article, Irina Medvinskaya presents an overview of two types of predefined C# variables: value types and reference types.

Learn how to convert date and time values into formatted strings by overloading a version of the ToString method, which accepts a format string.

Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also provides a simple example of how to combine stings in VB.NET.

Visual Basic 6 makes graphical user interface development so easy that developers often put too little time and effort into designing a clean GUI. This article offers some pointers for keeping your VB6 GUIs intuitive and attractive.

Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We'll walk you through the simple API steps to add this functionality to your projects.