Code First frees you up from the chore of creating databases for your project. Here's a primer on how to do it. Entity Framework has been the latest buzzword in the Microsoft Development circle since ...

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

In our previous example, we have placed a certain amount of VB code inside the .aspx file. We will refer to this practice as In-Page coding (also referred to as inline coding by some programmers). In ...

Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

The following code can be used in a spreadsheet macro to enable the automatic calculation of Erlang values. The function GetBlocking generates a blocking value based on two inputs: Erlangs and ...