In your Visual Basic.Net journey, you have definitely encountered a well used but little understood phenomenon called a delegate. You use them everyday, but might not know it. In this article, we will take a look at what a delegate is and how it will help you to develop better software.

             When you introduce multithreading in your applications, you immediately make programming more complicated and add design time.  You must know exactly what your application and all its threads are doing at all times.  You have to account for deadlocks, race conditions and corrupting variable values.  In this article we will examine the different methods in Visual Basic.Net to accomplish thread synchronization.  We will learn what deadlocks and race conditions are and how to avoid these common problems with multithreading. 

The Report Viewer control has it's roots in SQL Server Reporting Services.  While it used to require SQL Server as a repository, you can now generate reports for a client application without requiring a SQL Server repository for the reports. Is this a feasible alternative to Crystal Reports.