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 ...

C# might be more elegant with escape sequences, but that doesn't mean Visual Basic is weaker in this area. Sometimes you just need to escape. I'm speaking, of course, about escape sequences in strings ...

Holds sequences of unsigned 16-bit (2-byte) code points that range in value from 0 through 65535. Each *code point*, or character code, represents a single Unicode character. A string can contain from ...

This Help page discusses how Visual Basic uses culture information to perform string conversions and comparisons. ## When to Use Culture-Specific Strings Typically, you should use culture-specific ...