Visual Basic .NET Power Coding offers concise discussion and helpful examples of VB.NET's most complex topics, such as delegates, threading, remoting, Reflection, and security. If you are the average ...

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For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

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BEA Systems is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook with its latest Java tools strategy. In a bid to widen its lead in the e-business software market, BEA is courting software developers with a ...