Critics of visual programming, however, often point out the areas where it is lacking or generally falls behind traditional text-based programming. One of the largest criticisms of visual programming is that it doesn’t “scale” well, meaning that as a program becomes more complex it is diffic...
To learn more about setting default font settings for the user interface (UI) in an application you're building with Visual Studio, check out the tutorials on Create a simple Windows Forms app or Create a WPF application.To change the font and text size in the editorOn...
The ADO API Reference describes the functionality of the ADO application programming interface (API) using a syntax similar to Microsoft Visual Basic. Though the intended audience is all users, ADO programmers employ diverse languages such as Visual Basic, Visual C++ (with and without the #import ...
While you might visualize a Visual Studio project as a series of procedures that execute in a sequence, in reality, most programs are event driven—meaning the flow of execution is determined by external occurrences calledevents. An event is a signal that informs an application that something imp...
Application programming interfaces. Microsoft will not assert any of its patent rights on account of your products calling application programming interfaces that it publishes on the Documentation Portals (“APIs”) in order to receive services from the Microsoft product that exposes the APIs. ...
It says “Object doesn’t support this property or method,” but the meaning is about the same. Later, in Chapter 8, “Extend Excel and Visual Basic,” you’ll learn how to fix a macro so that you can give it to friends without the risk of having Excel tell them that they’re ...
Visual Basic programming languagean overview 1991, theUnited Stateslaunched the Microsoft Visual Basic (may be referred to VB), is the latest version of the current VB 2008 Beta2 (VB9) Chinese version. Visual meaning the visual, visible, referring to the development of operating systems like wi...
The Concurrency Runtime framework supports applications and components that run simultaneously, and is the framework for programming concurrent applications in Visual C++. To support concurrent-application programming, the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides general-purpose containers and algorithms for ...
Instead of relying on the graphs and charts provided by Microsoft Excel, content creators are now finding ways to use an application programming interface (API) to import data into a graphic design software, as Paul Lamere of The Echo Nest demonstrates in Figure 1-8. Figure 1-8. The Echo...
NoteLike most Visual FoxPro application development systems, the framework is composed of both object-oriented programming (OOP) class components and non-OOP files. This distinction is important because you adapt these two types of components in different ways; classes can be subclassed, while non-...