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Creating Visual Studio Project Templates Publish Date: Oct. 17, 2006
Visual Studio 2005 offers a great tool for those who create largely identical projects--custom project and item templates--that automates project creation and eliminates the need to add the same references, project items, or even largely identical code to new projects. Ron Petrusha shows you how.
Creating a Windows DLL with Visual Basic Publish Date: Apr. 26, 2005
Think it's not possible to create a Windows DLL using Visual Basic? Think again. Ron Petrusha shows you that it's not so tough.
Using Timers to Evaluate Code Performance Publish Date: Mar. 1, 2005
Need to evaluate the execution time of a block of code? Ron Petrusha shows you how to use the Timer function to do it.
Working with Icons in Visual Basic Publish Date: Aug. 17, 2004
Need to work with icons in Visual Basic? Ron Petrusha shows you the ins and outs of every aspect of it, from assigning .ico files to using a resource file and more.
Reading and Writing Registry Values with Visual Basic Publish Date: Jul. 27, 2004
Need to use Visual Basic to read and write Registry values? Ron Petrusha shows you how to retrieve known and unknown values, and how to set values.
Reading and Writing Registry Keys with Visual Basic Publish Date: Jun. 15, 2004
Need to use Visual Basic to perform basic operations upon registry keys? It's not tough to do, once you know the basics. Ron Petrusha shows you how.
Creating Desktop Shortcuts Using Visual Basic Publish Date: Apr. 13, 2004
Looking to use Visual Basic to create desktop shortcuts programmatically or as part of an installation program? Ron Petrusha shows you how.
VB .NET Language in a Nutshell: What's New and Different in VB .NET Publish Date: Oct. 1, 2001
Learn about the fundamental changes to the VB language syntax, functionality, error handling and additional object-oriented programming (OOP) support in this excerpt from VB .NET Language in a Nutshell
Visual Basic and the Kremlinologists Publish Date: Jun. 20, 2001
O'Reilly Visual Basic editor Ron
Petrusha reflects on the unfounded fears VB programmers have about
Microsoft's introduction of the .NET platform.
News Publish Date: Oct. 1, 1999
Today, many believe that Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the programming language first included with Microsoft Excel in 1993, represents this long-awaited universal batch language.
Where Am I Running? Publish Date: Aug. 1, 1999
Such a seemingly simple task as determining the version of the operating
system or the operating system on which an application is running has been
surprisingly difficult for many programmers.
News -- The O'Reilly VB Publishing Program Publish Date: Oct. 1, 1998
From the time of its initial release in 1991, each new version of Microsoft Visual Basic has become a more and more sophisticated development tool for creating Windows components and applications.
