Ron Petrusha is the editor of a number of O'Reilly's Windows and Visual Basic titles, and the author/coauthor of many books, including VBScript in a
Nutshell and VB.NET Language in a Nutshell.
Ron is no longer at O'Reilly, but while he was here, he hosted Ron's VB Forum, where he helped VB developers explore the hidden power of Visual Basic. Although this site is no longer active, we'd like to keep Ron's VB Forum Archive available to VB programmers, newbies and veterans alike. Below is a sampling of the latest columns.
The New Keyword
October 2001
What's the difference between creating an object using the New keyword during the declaration of the object variable, and using New with the Set keyword? Ron Petrusha explains.
Read this posting.
VB.NET: Too much too fast?
May 2001
Microsoft's VB.NET is so different from Visual Basic that Ron
suggests you continue using earlier versions of VB for existing code and
only use VB.NET for new projects. However,
VB.NET revitalizes Visual Basic, and it is an exciting programming language
for the future.
Read this posting.
Make Your Programs Run on Windows Startup
April 2001
The two best methods for automatically launching a
program at startup are to use the registry and the system's Startup folder.
Ron walks you through the selection of a registry key and possible methods
for writing to the registry, and he provides the code you'll need to modify
the Startup folder in both VB6 and VB.NET.
Read this posting.
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