You can think of arrays as being a little like a spreadsheet. A two dimensional array is like a spreadsheet of cells. But rectangular and jagged arrays have some big ... Read More

A structure and a multidimensional array have a lot in common in Visual Basic. Often, you can use either one and your program will work just as well either way. ... Read More

In addition to the three access modifiers we have always had - Public, Private and Friend - VB.NET adds one and a half more - Protected and Protected Friend. The ... Read More

Shared access is a little opposite to the main thread of OOP ... Object Oriented Programming ... because it allows you to "break the rules" that normally keep objects separate ... Read More

I've always been fascinated by recursion. Calculating a simple factorial - a common problem in statistics - can quickly make even Vista's virtual memory crash because it requires recursion. So ... Read More

I'll bet you already have a pretty good understanding of the logical operators: And Or Not If A is True and B is False, then A And B is False. And so forth. So ... Read More