Listing 1 shows the Visual Basic ADO.NET source code to obtain a data table of the results schema for a database query. Using the Utility The code download has the full Visual Studio solution.

Next ' Get the result as a string Dim s As String = sb.ToString This code snippet runs about 200 times faster than the one based on the & operator. You get slightly better results if you create a ...

Speed Up Your VB.NET Code August 1, 2002 Speed Up Your VB.NET Code Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET. Here are eight new ways to build wicked-fast code. by Francesco Balena Technology ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation ...