I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...

I'm just learning Visual Basic in college right now, and I've searched the web everywhere, but I can't seem to find an answer for this. Just using code (no .exe compressors), how can I keep string ...

In Visual Basic I'd write this: If stringVariable IsNot Nothing then Dim x as Integer x = stringVariable.Length End If I test the string for null/nothing because if I try to get the Length of a ...

Unicode lets you display extended characters in your Visual Basic 6 forms. This means that you can display characters, for instance Chinese or Russian letter, in a form that is used by an English user ...