How To Program For Windows Registry

This will guide you, how to use Windows Registry to store user specific non critical data which can be retrieved across applications.

Background
The Registry is split into a number of logical sections better known as hives.

Use operator shortcuts in VB.NET

Java and C++ developers have long been accustomed to using operator shortcuts for evaluating an expression and then stuffing the results of that expression back into one of the original variables. To do this kind of thing in VB6, you had to use code like this: