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Visual Basic developers revolting

The software company's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic. Read more »

Study: Visual Basic use may be slipping

Usage of Microsoft's popular Visual Basic development language--used by about half of all professional programmers--may be on the wane, according to a recent study. Read more »

The History of Builder AU

Builder AU has turned five and it's time to look back and see how we got here. Read more »

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My move from VB.NET to C#

The author confesses why he stuck with VB.NET for so long rather than moving to C# and reveals how life has been now that he's taken the plunge. Read more »

Pick up the basics of .NET Framework multithreaded programming

Writing multithreaded .NET applications can be tough for beginning programmers. We'll show you how to create threads and how the syntax differs for VB.NET, C++, and C#. Read more »

How I learned to stop worrying and love C#

After arguing for a long time that there's no difference between VB.NET and C#, Builder.com staff writer Lamont Adams is jumping on the C# bandwagon. Read more »

Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008

If you often have to track down bugs in an application installed on another machine, you should check out Microsoft's remote debugger tool with Visual Studio 2008. This article takes a look at its set-up and usage. Read more »

Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class

The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »

Encrypting .NET configuration files through code

Encryption support for configuration files was added to the .NET Framework beginning with version 2.0. We'll show you examples of controlling encryption and decryption in both VB.NET and C# code. Read more »

Log errors easily with the EMAB

The Exception Management Application Block (EMAB) can simplify your VB.NET or C# error handling, provided you know how to leverage it properly. Read more »

Protect sensitive data with .NET 2.0's SecureString class

Beginning with .NET Framework 2.0, the SecureString class is available to easily hold encrypted data in memory. Here are details about using the SecureString class. Read more »

Manipulate instances of Windows forms in C#

This article is the first in a series that's intended to ease the learning curve and help you get started working productively with C#. Read more »

Achieve pure .NET development with VB.NET

Are you confused by the choice of C# or VB.NET for .NET development? Most, mistakenly, think C# is the only viable choice. Read more »

Blog (3)

.NET doesn't have to mean VB.NET or C#

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It’s funny... when people think about the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) they tend to think in terms of either VB.NET or C#. Read more »

NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »

InAccess: Querying .Net

Paul Ayre [blogs:controlaltdefeat] -- INAccess: Tales of woe revolving around the Access Database system Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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