Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

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I'd like to pass to a method an object, and a REFERENCE (handle?) to one of its properties, so it can refer to the value and operate on it. (For specific reasons, I CANNOT pass the actual value; it ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...