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I have searched Google many times for this problem, can't find a solution.<BR><BR>I am using a legacy COM Libraby written in VB6. The three objects that I use are:<BR>DBConnect, Document, Application.

Is there any reason to set all local objects to Nothing at the end of subroutines in VB.NET? My understanding is that they all get GC'd when they fall out of scope and this is simply a LOC++ tactic, ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...