Ars Technica

VB.NET and DSOFile.dll: QueryInterface Failure

I have a windows service written in VB.NET which uses DSOFile.dll to look at the properties of a MSOffice document. Everything seems to work fine for me here. Having the relevant code snippet would be ...
Ars Technica

VB.net: How to load objects that support an interface dynamically from files.

I wish to search a directory for plugins by looking at what files support a certain plugin interface. Unfortunately I have never tried anything like this before so if someone could get me off on the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open Source Project Creates ASP.NET Core Apps with VB.NET

"I think we can say that VB.NET finally made it to ASP.NET Core," developer Mohammed Hamdy Ghanem told Visual Studio Magazine about his new open-source project. The project, eShopOnWeb in VB.NET (.NET ...
Visual Studio Magazine

WinForms Team Details VB.NET on .NET 5: 'A Huge Challenge'

Two members of Microsoft's Windows Forms dev team appeared in a Channel 9 video on "Supporting VB.NET" in .NET 5," a task that in some ways poses "a huge challenge." Specifically, one such aspect is ...