As an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), when you license VBA, you automatically become a member of the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Partner Program. The VBA Partner Program is designed to prov
14. Open Source“We’re trying to engage the community. There are a lot of smart people out there. We’ll look at pull requests from the community just like we do our own ideas.”—C#/Visual Basic Architect Anders Hejlsberg The final improvement is not in Visual Basic itself, but in ...
Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. —Alfred North Whitehead Objectives In this chapter you’ll learn: ? What inheritance is and how it promotes software reuse. ? To use keyword Inherits to create a derived...
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14. Open Source“We’re trying to engage the community. There are a lot of smart people out there. We’ll look at pull requests from the community just like we do our own ideas.”—C#/Visual Basic Architect Anders HejlsbergThe final improvement is not in Visual Basic its...
Of course, the easiest way is to drop it into a Visual Basic-based program as an ActiveX control. When running the ScriptControl as an ActiveX control, you can put it right in your form and exercise the functions to your heart's content. To learn how to us...
Visual Basic has now had interfaces for several versions, but the old ideas have persisted because it is far simpler in Visual Basic to access a method directly through an object rather than to obtain the interface first. To describe interfaces and objects, I...
Before we dive fully into the language, it is first necessary to cover some basic concepts about the Visual Basic .NET language and the .NET Framework. This chapter covers some of the fundamental ideas that apply across the entire language. It also talks a little bit about the underlying des...
Languages are for humans, not for computers. When looking at a computer, the only language the hardware speaks is machine code. An intermediary such as acompiler or interpreteris needed to turn a human user’s ideas into machine code. Text-based programming languages have their origins in math...
Although Visual Basic .NET includes its own Random number generator (Rnd) and the Microsoft® .NET Framework provides the System.Random class, I prefer to use another random number generator. Within the Cryptographic classes, which make intensive use of random values, there is an RNGCrypto...