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Frequently Asked Questions, or Frequently Requested Code (FRC?)

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Hey folks.... I've been thinking (dangerous, I know) and I've decided that you need to see more code. This might mean more code in this blog, more on the site, more pointed to that lives on other sites.... whatever, just more code in the end. I'm looking for topics though, what do you see as the most common topics that need code snippets? What comes up again and again when you are on the newsgroups and on the web forums out there?

Should we (MSFT, VB Team, Me, etc...) focus on the simple stuff for beginners or is that all covered on other sites and in the docs? Should we be focusing on those top few percentage of hard problems that very few folks have a good example for?

I'm leaning towards the 'simple' samples at the moment, like my printing example a few weeks back, and considering doing a simple data-entry application as a demo, then perhaps an application that uses the WebBrowser COM control (it comes up a lot on the forums I frequent)... and then, despite having already written an article on it, something involving multiple forms and passing data back and forth...

If you have any ideas or if you are just sick of answering a particular question over and over again (or asking it, and not getting a good answer) then just let me know.

[Listening to: Man on the Moon - R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (05:14)]

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2004
    There seems to be a lot of requests for a "Hello World" example. I've seen it all over the place.<g>
  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2004
    Simple samples like hello world are ok - but the other simple stuff - with a little googling you can find nearly everything - what gives me a hard time is always WMI, APIs, System Management Stuff, Network Stuff, etc.

    But actually I realy want to see fancy samples - like how to use BlueTooth APIs on XP SP1
  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2004
    I agree, I'd like to see the more difficult samples as well, including WMI and system management. To name one example, I've been searching for VB.NET sample code that initiates a Remote Assistance session for some time now. The only examples that I can find on MSDN are in C and VBscript.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    There always seems to be lots of questions on customizing WinForms controls, hosting the WebBrowser control in your app, and getting a WinForms control onto a web page.

    Also, a lightweight control that displayed simple HTML formatting. Rather than having to load the WebBrowser control when someone wants to display simple HTML with text, <b>, <i>, lists, links, etc.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    What is the best way to do math (such as integration, data regression...) in VB without writing to much code?

    Could I get code for frequently use math functions some where?
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    I'd like to see real examples. For instance, everyone is linking to the MSDN DateTime best practices article. The article lists the #1 best practice and then, in the very first sentence under that heading, instead of showing how to use that practice, tells of the way that many people work around it. The actual best practice is never demonstrated in the article, only secondary, lesser methods.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
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    Thanks..
    Bibhu
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    March 04, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    Please, please please no more beginner's code! I don't think that many beginners in the first place would really be looking at this site in the first place, and anyways the simple stuff can be found all over the internet.

    However, I wouldn't say to go into the obscure, really complex stuff either (that MSDN sometimes publishes).

    Pick a happy medium -- popular topics that are of interest to intermediate/advanced programmers.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    I would prefer to see simple examples of code with comments where one should include validation code. Since I've been a programmer for 20 years, but just learning VB, I want to quickly see the basic syntax. I can figure out the supporting code.
  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
    How can I define a global variable that I can
    refer to from every form in the project ?
  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
    I think since most of the business applications use Database, I would prfere that some really cool and real work examples are posted to the code centre. Validation, Master Detail, Grid, Editing in Grid, Reports both in text format, export to other formats.
  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2004
    It's sometimes annoying how most of the code around the net happily skips all the error handling and validation etc. In a book it's understandable, but as a beginner-intermediate when i see how everyone else skips that important code, it's easy to get the feel that you can get without it, atleast for a while.

    Also some discussion as to why something was done like it was would be nice, perhaps explaining why this is 'the best practice'.

    I'd prefer the examples use async IO where applicable. There's certain cases in .NET when beginner wants to do IO he will find himself having big problems when using synchronous IO, i've had this several times. Then i learned after ton of research into the matter that async is the only way to get something serious done.
  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2004
    hello... please help me !!!
    please...
    I Want send a data to Com port in Visual Basic..
    Please give me Commands in Visual Basic relation Com port with a example ...
    Thank you .

    I am waiting ...
  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2004
    I am a vb6 developer and want to explore vb.net and asp.net now.
    What about a reusable database-application skeleton for vb.net and asp.net? I mean, if you break it down to the essentials, what do I need to get started ?
    -An Access Table with 5 fields (1 String, 1 Date, 1 integer, 1 currency, 1 boolean)
    -A List Records/Filter dialog
    -A Find Record dialog
    -An edit/update/delete/cancel dialog with reuseable validation code for each type of the fields
    -A reuseable Errorhandler
    -One Report with the five fields

    That's all, I guess, and it will help a lot.
  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2004
    I too am a VB6/ASP developer that is in need of some sample code for .NET. I have wrote several sites with shopping carts. What is different in doing this in .NET? I used classes and ASP. Is this still the preferred way in .NET. I am trying to put together a horse training site for a friend and would like to do it with the latest and greatest like XML to SQL Server 2000 and .NET. Any ideas or existing code that I can look at?
  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2004
    I am Vb.NET and C# developer and i would like to see more code on web mining, building multi-threaded web applications and data mining html documents
  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2004
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    March 17, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2004
    how will u open a simple excel file using visual basic