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Resolved A usercontrol on a form with long running method on BackgroundWorker

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Installation related issues with Visual Studio itself (this is not for application deployment discussion)
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.NET Framework

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.NET Core

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Nested Classes

Security/Obfuscation

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Best practices to protect your application

Localization and i18n (Internationalization)

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translate the application

Accessibility

Developing applications in compliance with accessibility requirements/mandates
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Question Checking if exist in access db problem

Third Party/Add-Ins

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Resolved Error when trying to install Microsoft Code Analysis 2017

Web Resources

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Learning videos

Training, Conferences, Events

Resources/Discussion for VB.NET Training, Learning, Conferences, and Events, etc.
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Testing, Quality Control, Debugging

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an old bug and learning something new

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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Answered Minimize WCF Console On Start Up

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

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Expression Suite

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Writing to file problem...

Silverlight

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VB.NET General Discussion

VB.NET general discussion area
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Windows Forms

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msgbox not modal

Graphics/GDI+

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parameter must be positive and < height

Windows Services

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Question Read Time & Seconds From JSON file and Send Mail

Remoting

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Question Capture the IIS start, Stop and restart time

Console Application

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quadratic equations

Component Development

Development of components with VB.NET
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Add-In Development

Discussions related to developing Add-Ins
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Fetching a Calendar in Outlook

Security

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Warning Messages on publishing

Third Party Products

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Debug mode works, but not RUN mode

ASP.NET

ASP.NET General Discussion

General discussion on ASP.NET development with VB.NET
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Rest API with ASP.NET MVC

Web Forms

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Resolved Return The Results Of An Updated Webform

Web Services

Anything about web service development with VB.NET
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What's the equivalent of Web.Services.Discovery for a REST service?

Caching

Discussion related to caching, session and state management, etc.
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Maintain Session or Cookie for 30-days on a web farm with SQL Server state management

Web Configuration

Discussion of all .config related files
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Save web.config. Terribly slow page load suddenly responds quickly

Web Component Development

Discussion on developing web controls
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Question Web deployment

Using Components/Controls

Discussion about server controls and related components for ASP.NET development
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Updating GridView with Database Changes

Web Security

Discussion related to ASP.NET security configuration, deployment considerations, user permissions, etc.
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Sending confirmation email to user

Web Deployment

Everything related to packaging and deploying ASP.NET applications and components
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ASP.net guidance for a newbie
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IIS

Discussion on any IIS configuration and related topics to ASP.NET development with VB.NET
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Trying to publish site. 500 internal server error. Godaddy = Useless.

E-Commerce

Discussion on building ASP.NET e-commerce solutions
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vb shopping cart

Hosting

Anything related to hosting asp.net sites, providers, considerations, troubleshooting, etc.
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Looking for Windows ASP .NET Webhost

Third Party Web Tools

Discussion on third party support for ASP.NET development
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Answered Get service interface (Message Formats etc) from Swagger Definition

Design / CSS

Web Page Design, Cascading Style Sheets, etc.
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Online tutorial

MV*

Discussion about using MVC, MVP, etc. (pattern development)
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Razor

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Question Why will ActionLink not take a variable piece of data for id?

Mobile Development

UWP

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Run other apps with your own developed Windows Phone App?

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Database

Database General Discussion

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Transfer data from combobox to columns with condition

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MS Access

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Resolved Search data between two dates and by Customer name

SQL Server

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XML

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Oracle

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MySQL

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OLEDB

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ODBC

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Question Reading data from a progress database

LINQ

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Resolved Deleting a DataTable Record w/ LINQ

Sync Framework

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Question Simple sample of syncing two Datasets?

Entity Framework

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'Add' function adds two objects instead of one. Is this a bug?

Components & Controls

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Answered How to set left click for ContextMenuStrip for datagridview cell or row ?

Grids

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Answered How to transfer updated rows of datagridview to database ?

GUI

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Are there pre-existing dialog boxes for constructing data connections?

Non-GUI

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Question Coundown Timer

Reporting / Printing

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Charting

Discussion on charting components for .NET
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Options for charting Maps?

Data Analysis

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datavisualization charting functions

Listviews / Treeviews

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Editors

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find and select multiple words in richtextbox

Archiving

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Question View zipped image directly

Schedule / Time

Discussion on components for schedule / time UI's
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Resolved MonthCalendar BoldedDates bug

Net / Sockets

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Components for building data layer / abstraction into applications
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FYI Layergen

Suites

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Infragistics, ComponentOne, Xceed, DevExpress, Janus...

Other

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SAP competitor for ERP?

Books - Reading List

General Learning Resources Discussion

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Why Microsoft has no VB examples

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New Windows App Programmer

ASP.NET Reading

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Learning ASP.net

Jobs

Running a Business

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Need advice on selling our applications

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Asynchronous data parsing sockets server

Job Postings

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Available Small C# SQLite Project that needs to modified and fixed

Looking for Work

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have a project for me?

Self-Employment

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What skills does one need to become self-employed?

The Break Room

Programmer Chat

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Help keep VB.Net a First Class Language on .Net 5

Articles of Interest

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FYI 5 Part Post to Microsoft from former VB.Net PM Anthony Green

Intellectual Property Discussion

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Discontinuing Tapatalk

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Testing VB.NET code

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