Hopefully you already know VB has full support for Optional parameters, both declaring them and calling them, but did you know you can use Dates as Optional parameters ?    Public Sub AddNewCustomer(customer As Customer,                               Optional dateAdded As Date = Nothing)       If dateAdded = Nothing Then dateAdded = Now   VB has had this support for Optional […]

From time to time there’s discussion about the way dates are displayed in the Visual Studio IDE for Visual Basic. Typically dates are shown using VB’s date literal syntax of #MM/dd/yyyy# which is the standard US format.  For people outside of the USA this can be confusing or ambiguous at times.  The good news is […]