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Can a C# developer turned VB developer ever return to C# later in their career without a significant penalty? [closed]
Background: IT Recruitment in UK has absolutely exploded over the last five years and I get quite a few calls from recuiters each week with positions. One recruiter offered to put me forward for a ...
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importing multiple images using VB macros in excel [migrated]
Firstly, i'm a design student and not a programmer, so am turning to forums such as this for help. As part of a project, I'm creating a prototype interface using excel. The excel document accepts ...
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Better use on the name of variables
I have a method that looks like this:
Public Function NormalizeStreetAddress(country As Namespace.Country,
streetAddress As Namespace.StreetAddress) _
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Visual Basic link to SQL output to Word
I am in need of some advice/references. I am currently trying to develop a legal document interface. There are certain fields in which I need to query out of my sql db and have those fields output ...
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Software solution from the 2000's, should I attempt to patch or remake the whole thing?
I was sent out to discuss a system that a certain company is currently using and what should be done with it.
The company manufactures various carton displays. This system was developed to keep track ...
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Get a Programming Internship if you don't know programming? Learning instead?
Is it possible to get an internship to learn programming if you've say only had one classs in visual basic?
For example, I want to learn any programming language, but I've only taken 1 class in ...
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How can I migrate from Excel VBA with ADO to C++ with OCCI?
I am employed as a developer, but the only application development tools I have available to me are Access and Excel (i.e., VBA). Fortunately, I have good access to our Oracle DB, but that took some ...
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Meaning of phrase: “Not your father's Visual Basic”
I have ran into the above phrase many times (especially during classic VB days) and I have been wondering what it really mean and where it originated from. Any ideas?
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What to teach a 12-year-old VB programmer about programming in general
I am mentoring a 12-year old in programming.
He has started to do some VB (.net) (2008) and is making simple WinForms programs, but does not get some of the basic concepts (loops, functions, ...
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Is Visual Basic a dying language? [closed]
I have been developing for about 4 years now with my primary language being C#. My first language was Visual Basic though. The thing is through my journey I noticed more and more C# examples, posts, ...
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Is this code bad enough to warrant a rewrite?
This is a web application for payment processing. I've been here maintaining it for nearly two years now, so I have a good idea of the problems with the system. About a half a year after starting here ...
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port vb3 app to 32 bit with no source code — chances of success?
I have a potential client who sells a VB3 app, for which he lost the source code. It does not run on Windows 7 64-bit because the app is 16-bit. Only 32- and 64-bit programs will run on 64-bit ...
