Operator overloading or ad-hoc polymorphism lets you work with user defined types much the same way you work with fundamental data types Polymorphism is one of the basic principles of OOP (Object ...

I am writing a B+ Tree template class for a school project. I have been writing and compiling under VS.NET. Everything is fine, no complains. Now, I moved to the school's *nix system and try to ...

Yes, one can use this form, but this is still not a replacement for being able to implement linear algebra based algorithms in a readable fashion. What was the original reason for not allowing ...

I listened recently to a Channel 9 recording of Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Beckman, and Erik Meijer that caught me by surprise. Brian praised VB's dynamic features, yet said he used C# because it had ...

I'm writing a wrapped data class to allow me to easily convert between several similar datatypes. That is, I have a class MyClass which internally represents an item, but can interact with ints, ...

One of the most common misunderstandings I hear is the claim that VB doesn't have operator overloading. In 2005, VB8 introduced full support for consuming and defining operator overloads (Table 1 has ...