Most programmers compile their VB programs using the default advanced compiler settings. If you know about these settings, you may be able to change them to improve the performance of your compiled ...

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VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

Optimizing a VB.NET application often requires a deep understanding of how the .NET Framework works, including details about the inner workings of the garbage collector and the Just In Time (JIT) ...

It's great that your new team is ready to support your immersion into Visual Basic. It's always a bad idea to exaggerate skills, but since everyone is being honest, I think you'll be successful in the ...

We recently conducted an interview with Microsoft's .NET team based entirely upon questions submitted by our members. Part one included comments from the team on the security of the .NET platform. In ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

This mechanism becomes clear if you explore the output of the VB compiler with the ILDASM utility (see Figure 1). Reading a WithEvents variable goes about two and a half times slower than reading a ...