Irina Medvinskaya explains why you should usually opt for using the & operator over the + operator to combine strings. She also provides a simple example of how to combine stings in VB.NET.

It's effectively impossible to migrate VB6 applications to VB.Net, and for VB6 developers, learning VB.Net is as complex as learning a completely new programming language, critics say.

Note that one thing that may make learning VB.Net actually a positive for you in the short/medium term is the underlying ethos of the language designers.

It's effectively impossible to migrate VB6 applications to VB.Net, and for VB6 developers, learning VB.Net is as complex as learning a completely new programming language, critics say.

From my early Visual Basic programming days (VB 2.0) until recently, many books have covered the complex details of writing applications, communication, and connecting with databases. However, the ...

The difference between VB.NET and C# boils down to whether you like semi-colons. .NET promises an opportunity to choose the best language for a given task without sacrificing power.