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Geometric transforms let you take an image and distort it in someway, such as rotation, translation,

In the article ” Understanding the Nuances of Delegates in C#,” by Satya Komatineni, the concept of delegates and their general pattern of usage in C# was introduced. This article takes the subject further and looks at another feature of delegates–the built-in ability to perform tasks asynchronously by handing [...]

Beginners of OOP with VB.NET often don’t pay enough attention to constructors. The reason for this is their classes are usable even without a constructor. What’s worse is that many think constructors are just another type of method, which is simply not true. [...]

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s implementation of the Web Based Enterprise Management Initiative as defined by the Distributed Management Task Force. Or, if you like, the DMTF WBEM–and let me tell you it’s a monster.

This excerpt is Appendix A from VB .NET Language in a Nutshell , published in August 2001 by O’Reilly. This appendix is for readers who are familiar with earlier versions of Visual Basic, specifically Version 6. In this appendix, we describe the basic changes to the VB language, both in [...]

Compiled programming languages allow earlier error checking, better enforcement of programming styles, and generation of more efficient object code than interpreted languages, where all type-consistency checks are performed at run time. However, even in compiled languages, there is often the need to deal with data whose type [...]

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Editor’s note: It may not seem as though much has changed in Excel 2003, but if you’re an Excel VBA programmer, you will want to know about some new programming features. Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer’s Notebook will get you up to speed quickly on working with lists and XML data, securing Excel applications, [...]