VB Object Class

Having spent some years working with Microsoft Access, I am new to Visual Studio. I thought I would point out some trivialities that have made this transition bearable maybe even enjoyable!! Debug Working Directory When you finally get you project into a suitable state to hopefully viewe... [More]

When designing a Form it is often useful to change the colors of some controls or the font of text controls on the Form. Below is the Form "Phrase Header” from the Phrase XML project (you may wish to download this project).  PhraseXMLSetup.msi (397.00 kb) In the sample below ... [More]

OOP started life in the sixties but the publication of "Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" in 1994 really established it as the direction that software design was moving. Dividing the world into objects and classes, complicated to set up, even more complicated to execute. But once estab... [More]

I have always used uppercase when writing field names.(FIRSTNAME,SURNAME). The text editor uses intelliSense and when you are using the editor to enter characters in lowercase it is great when they turn to uppercase on the field names. It tells you that you have the right target!

If you are programming in Vista this can be a confusing error message to receive. In my case I was updating some data in a XML file. There could be several reasons for such a message to originate, but in this case it was the UAC (User Account Control) administrative rights. In XP there were no Admi... [More]