In my recent article, "Is Visual Studio LightSwitch the New Access?", I looked at the suitability of LightSwitch as a replacement tool for departmental applications developed in Microsoft Access.

I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...

Imports System.IO Imports System.Reflection Imports System.Security.Cryptography Imports System.Text Public Class EncryptString Private Key As Byte() Private IV As Byte() Public Sub New() Dim ...