Posts tagged ‘Visual Basic’
Highest Demand Programming Languages in March 2015
A question that I hear frequently is: “Which programming language (or languages) should I learn? Usually the person asking is a student and what they really mean is, “What programming language will get me a job?!” My usual answer is that it’s more important to focus on learning concepts (like: inheritance, composition, polymorphism, data structures, design patterns, etc.) because these are pretty much the same regardless of language. If you learn C# in-depth, and then get a job where you need to use Java, you should be able to apply the concepts you know (and even a lot of the syntax) and pick up Java quickly. But, of course, you would still want to choose a language that is at least in the top dozen, as far as job demand. (more…)
.NET Remoting with Events in VB 2005 and .NET 2.0
I learned how to add events to a remote client by studying the “Chatter” remoting example in .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET, by Paul Kimmell. I will not attempt to explain the entire “Chatter” code example, since a good explanation is already given in Kimmell’s article, but I do want to point out a few important aspects that weren’t clear to me at first. (more…)
More on Delegates and Events in VB 2005
In the .NET 2.0 Framework, with Visual Basic 2005, there are a number of ways to define and use delegates, and even more ways to define and use events . This post summarizes these differences. (more…)
.NET Remoting: The Simplest Remoting Example
I just read chapter 10, .NET remoting, in Introducing Microsoft .NET 3rd Edition, 2003, by David S. Platt. His explanations are very clear and easy to read, but I had a little trouble compiling and running the sample code. Part of the problem is that the code was written for an earlier version of Visual Studio and the .NET library. I took notes as I upgraded and built this example and I thought I’d share them here. I built this example in Visual Basic 2005 Express SP1. I have upload this project into my Box.net folder on this blog. Even if you don’t have David Platt’s book you can probably get a good idea about how remoting works by looking at my VB2005 version of his example code, reading the introduction below, and reading the on-line articles listed at the end of the introduction.
