Michael Sorens Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: The Basics Although PowerShell Cmdlets are usually written in PowerShell, there are occasions when the level of integration with existing C# or VB libraries is awkward to... 19 February 2016 18 min read
Richard Morris Alan Cooper: Geek of the Week Alan Cooper helped to debug the most widely-used PC language of the late seventies and early eighties, BASIC-E, and, with Keith Parsons, developed C-BASIC. He... 15 April 2015 14 min read
Andy Brown 10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C# After having converted a whole lot of training materials based on VB.NET into C#, Andy 'Wise Owl' Brown decided to write a tongue-in-cheek rant whilst... 14 February 2012 8 min read
Hima Bindu Vejella The New Features in C#4.0 The co-evolution of Visual Basic and C# is increasingly going to bring the feature-set of those languages closer together. So, having walked us through the... 04 November 2010 20 min read
Hima Bindu Vejella Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements The latest evolution of VB in Visual Studio will bring with it a bundle of C# functionality, nudging the two languages even closer together. To... 14 July 2010 17 min read
Greg Larsen Deploying Reports using the ReportingServices2005 Class and the RS Utility Much of the routine administration of Reporting Services (SSRS), such as the routine deployment of RDL reports, can be automated by using the Reporting Service... 16 April 2010 17 min read
Allen White Automate your Database Integrity checks using SMO Allen White shows how to use Visual Basic to create simple routines that use SMO for inserting and deleting jobs from SQL Server Agent and... 15 September 2007 22 min read
Phil Factor The Simple Talk SQL Prettifier Tired of struggling through dull, monchrome SQL, C# and VB code in website blogs and forums? Then check out the all-new Simple Talk code prettifier!… 22 May 2007 11 min read
Jeff Hewitt Building Active Directory Wrappers in .NET The ability to authenticate .NET application users against Active Directory is a common requirement. Here, Jeff Hewitt demonstrates how to build wrapper classes in Visual... 09 February 2007 18 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Custom Events in VB.NET 2005 Visual Basic .NET is well known for its event-driven programming capabilities. VB.NET 2005 adds new functionality for custom events that provides flexibility in handling and... 26 September 2005 7 min read
Douglas Reilly Geek of the Week – Bill Vaughn William Vaughn is a well-known author who writes about Visual Basic and database-related topics. He previously worked for Microsoft, and now runs Beta V Corp.… 11 July 2005 15 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Visual Basic.NET 2005 Discover some of the new features in Visual Basic.NET 2005 such as partial classes, generics, operator overloading and using block… 06 May 2005 7 min read
