Articles by Mahesh Chand

ADO.NET library provides different types of data providers to work with different data sources. Three common data providers are OLE DB, SQL, and ODBC. The main reason of using different data providers to maintain the performance and not loose native data provider functionality.

Handling events in VB is little bit tricky than in C++ or C#. In VB.NET, you write a delegate and then write an event handler. These event handlers are overridable public events defined in the Control or other WinForms classes.

Handling events in VB is little bit tricky than in C++ or C#. In VB.NET, you write a delegate and then write an event handler. These event handlers are overridable public events defined in the Control or other WinForms classes.

Windows DNA is a framework to build multi-tier, high performance, scalable distributed applications over the network. This article takes a Windows DNA perspective and compares how ADO.NET fits in Windows DNA.

Learn how string concatenation can affect application performance and why StringBuilder is useful for efficient string operations in VB.NET.

Using ADO recordset in managed code using ADO.NET data providers is pretty simple. Visual studio .NET provides you to add reference to the COM libraries. In this article I'll show you how to access data using ADO recordset and fill a ADO.NET data provider from the recordset data.

This tutorial explains how to represent strings in .NET using VB.NET and how to work with them with the help of .NET class library classes.

This article explains about the XML Prograaming using VB.NET. In this article we will explore XML classes and namespaces of .NET Framework Class Library and how to use them in VB.NET to read, write and navigate XML documents.

Windows Registry is a central database for application configuration settings and other information required by the applications. Actually there is nothing else you can do with Windows Registry besides reading its data and write data to it. In this small tutorial, I will show you how to read, write and delete Windows Registry.

You can create different types of brushes in GDI+. In this article, I will show you how to create various types of brushes.

GDI+ is next evolution of GDI. Using GDI objects in earlier versions of Visual Studio was a pain. This tutorial discusses the basic concepts, the System.Drawing namespace and gives you a head start towards graphics programming using GDI+.

Visual Basic .NET is a major component of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET suite. The .NET version of Visual Basic is a new improved version with more features and additions. After these new additions, VB qualify to become a full object-oriented language such as C++. In this article, I will try to introduce you to VB.NET and will cover new additions to the language. I will also compare VB 6.0 and VB.NET and how to develop simple applications in VB.NET.

Learn how to use VB.NET and .NET XML classes to read, write, and navigate XML documents.

Sharepoint portal server provides a set of COM API that can be used to access its functionality from .NET applications via COM Interoperability. In this article, I will show you how to import SPP functionality in your .NET application.

C# string is a common data type in C#. This tutorial teaches how to work with strings in C#.

In this article, I will show you how to access MySQL server database using ODBC data provider.

In this article, I will discuss some functionality related to the LinkLabel control and how to use it.

How do I change the default exe name of my project?. I received this question in an email.

C# sealed classes. The sealed keyword in C# language is used to create a sealed class. Sealed classes restricts classes to extend or inherit a class. The code examples of sealed classes in this article demonstrate use of sealed classes in C# and .NET.