You can create [XML Literals](../../../language-reference/xml-literals/index.md) and populate them with the contents from an external source such as a file, a string ...
The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language targets both beginning and experienced developers alike. Paul Vick explains how VB works clearly and concisely, and he covers data types, conversions, ...
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Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...
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When you call a `Sub` or `Function` procedure, you can pass arguments *by position* — in the order in which they appear in the procedure's definition — or you can pass them *by name*, without regard ...
Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only not quite as ...