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The Visual Basic Team, July 23, 2008
Last month when I was in Redmond I was pulled into a photo with some of the people working on Visual Basic. Do you notice something quirky about these pictures (besides me)? Yes, they are all wearing ...
The Visual Basic Team, July 18, 2008
This week on the VB Dev Center we're featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de Beijer (VB MVP) on Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation. Mauric...
Panopticon Central, July 18, 2008
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. It's been a while since I've had much of anything to say about our thinking about VB10 (well, it's been a while since I've had much of anything to s...
ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, July 18, 2008
Visual Basic 2008 contains more new features than its previous version. In this review, Anand voices his opinion about the book Murach's Visual Basic 2008 by examining the content provided under each ...
The Visual Basic Team, July 17, 2008
If you haven't noticed, we released a couple new how-to videos on the VB Dev Center starting a new series which is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Found...
Hannes Preishuber, July 17, 2008
In my last post Michael Schwarz noticed that search engine spiders can theoretically index xap files. Silverlight 2.0 creates a xap file where dlls, images, videos and xml are included...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, July 14, 2008
Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue developers experience when they start dealin...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., July 13, 2008
Someone posted a question
in the Entity Framework MSDN forum asking for an example of overriding SaveChanges.
I thought I had posted one in an early thread but couldn't find it. Nor could I find
an o...
Ajax.NET Professional, July 12, 2008
Carlo Mendoza is modifying the i.MXS board for SPI: "The board had a few missing 0Ω resistors, and had to be addressed. Figure 1 was obtained from the schematics included in the CD (iMXS...
Code Climber, July 10, 2008
Michael Eaton started a meme with the question: How did you get started in software development? Yesterday Matt Berseth tagged me in his post, so its now my turn to answer the questions and tag oth...
Simple Talk, July 8, 2008
One of the greatest pleasures of programming in C# is that wonderful, giddy, feeling of superiority one has over VB.NET programmers. In C#, one has a vague awareness that what one is doing has eleganc...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, July 7, 2008
So I like VB better than C# for many reasons. Primarily because development experience in VB is built to help productivity. The Development experience in C# is built around being proud of the language...
4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines, July 2, 2008
While reading through some of Jeff Atwood's old blog entries, I stumbled across this gem:
The Danger of Naivete. In it, Jeff discussed the pitfalls the can befall a programmer
who implements a naive ...
FTPOnline .NET Channel, July 1, 2008
Readers chime in on VB getting left behind....
The Visual Basic Team, July 1, 2008
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up...
Jotekes Blog, June 29, 2008
By being momentarily pissed off to the level of job I needed to do with classes working with DB and business logic in a project, I made suggestion in Connect, a while ago Ability to spe...
Jotekes Blog, June 27, 2008
Joe Stagner discusses in a blog post based on reader feedback, if one should choose VB.NET or C# and he ends with that it doesn't matter. Well, I sort of disagree, but let me first ...
Stephen Kaufman's WebLog, June 25, 2008
Well, it would appear that I have been 'tagged' to answer a few question on how I got started in this business. This chain seems to have started back quite a ways and it is interesting to see ho...
Rob Howards Blog, June 20, 2008
This release adds support for .NET 3.5; has some significant performance updates; along with a number of improvements to CodeSmith Projects. You view the entire list of additions/updates here.We've al...
ASP.NET Announcements, June 19, 2008
Introduction
Having a chart with several Y axes is a requirement you will meet very often when you develop charting enabled applications. It is essential that a good charting product supports flexible...
Karl Seguin [MVP], June 18, 2008
Few keywords are as simple yet amazingly powerful as virtual in C# (overridable in VB.NET). When you mark a method as virtual you allow an inheriting class to override the behavior. Without this funct...
ISerializable, June 14, 2008
Hmm. I'm going to apply just to see what happens. On second thought, I'll just try to solve it in .NET and blog it, so I can prove to all of you that I am a such a bad coder, it's not even funny (whic...
Karl Seguin [MVP], June 12, 2008
It's hard to imagine that almost a year has gone by since my jab at Resharper's 3.0 lack of support for .NET 3.5. Yesterday I finally got around to installing thew newly released Resharper 4 a...
Scott on Writing, June 10, 2008
As I noted in an earlier blog post, in May the first of my Master Pages tutorials were published on www.asp.net. Two new master page tutorials were put online today:
URLs in Master Pages [VB | C#] - ...
Brad Abrams, June 5, 2008
A few months ago we announced that we are working on a Managed Externality Framework and there was a lot of feedback just on the announcement! Today we posted the very first CTP of MEF.&nb...
The Visual Basic Team, June 5, 2008
This week I presented "Microsoft Visual Basic IDE Tips and Tricks" at TechEd US 2008. Thanks to those of you who attended. The presentation materials are listed below.
Slide deck
2008 solution - p...
Jason N. Gaylords Blog, June 5, 2008
There is no way to add querystring parameters to the SiteMapNode in a SiteMap control "out of the box." I'm quite surprised there is no option but luckily the SiteMap uses the provider model...
The Visual Basic Team, June 4, 2008
The VB team has two great sessions coming up on Wednesday June 4th, covering tips & tricks for the language and IDE. Abstracts are below. Hope to see you there!
TLA319 Microsoft Visual Basic 2008:...
ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, June 2, 2008
In this first part of the series, Abhishek describes the concepts of threading, different procedures to create threads, synchronization among multiple threads, uses of Sleep and Join methods, code loc...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., May 31, 2008
In the past few weeks, I have received an number of differentVB2008 books for
distribution at the VTdotNET User
Group. I thought authors/publishers were cutting back on VB books but this is great
to ...
Misfit Geek, May 28, 2008
Some time ago, my buddy Jesse posted about his new favorite utility. As a matter of policy, we record How-Do-I videos while doing the programming in VB and than I have to re-write the sample code in...
Misfit Geek, May 28, 2008
Some time ago, my buddy Jesse posted about his new favorite utility. As a matter of policy, we record How-Do-I videos while doing the programming in VB and than I have to re-write the sample code in...
DevX: .NET Feed, May 22, 2008
This book is a thorough exploration of Visual Basic 2008's capabilities, written for developers by an expert developer. Chapter 34, excerpted here, covers printing with VB.NET, including graphics, cha...
Frans Boumas blog, May 21, 2008
This afternoon I was writing some VB.NET specific Linq queries for the documentation for our upcoming LLBLGen Pro v2.6 (currently in beta) version, and typically I was simply porting over C# queries ...
Jason N. Gaylords Blog, May 21, 2008
I've recently discovered that LINQ and VB can be confusing. I was attempting to pull the top 10 rows of a table where the column started with 'W'. You'd think after I typed that, I'd figure out the so...
Guy Barrettes WebLog, May 20, 2008
[From Henrik Lykke Nielsen]
VB goes prime time on CSI NY!
...
JohnPapa.net, May 20, 2008
I had to laugh at this. It is from CSI NY. Just watch this 15 second video ... no explanation needed....
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., May 20, 2008
Michale de la Maza follows up his popular C# day events with a VB.NET day at the Microsoft
office on Tuesday May 27th.
Join us for a relaxed, no cost introduction to VB.NET programming. By engaging
i...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 18, 2008
Just to tie the previous two blog posts together, I copied the C# into Instant VB and here is what it spit out (line break added to fit) Private Sub AnyPropertyCheckBox_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, May 16, 2008
Before I say a word, let me tell you that Dave from Tangible Software has been sending me free copies of InstantVB and Instant C# for years and they posted a testimonial from me on their site. That is...
The Visual Basic Team, May 15, 2008
Last week I went on a user group tour around Southern California. I've uploaded the materials from my talk:
Powerpoint presentation
Solution at the Start of the Demo
Solution at the End of the Demo
Y...
The Visual Basic Team, May 9, 2008
The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and VS 2008 topics. If you look at the center of the page you'll see the list of top...
Panopticon Central, May 8, 2008
Random musing for the day: I was thinking about reserved words in programming languages and whether they're really necessary at a lexical level. As you know, most programming languages define in their...
Panopticon Central, May 5, 2008
WARNING: This is a speculative post. Caveat emptor. Well, I appear to be on a rhythm of about once a month posts, which seems OK for the moment. Moving on to another "future" topic, one of the most...
The Code Project Latest Articles, May 5, 2008
Date Format function for vbScript / ASP...
Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 : ASP.NET, April 26, 2008
The bits move on, and only the code keeps changing.
My complaints in the last post are no longer valid. As of the 4/16 release of the MVC framework, VB no longer has that weird behaviour. Now, all ac...
The Visual Basic Team, April 25, 2008
An identity transform in XSLT does just what the name implies: replace the identity of an element or attribute with a new identity. Identity transforms are especially critical when dealing with XML ma...
Fabrice's weblog, April 24, 2008
C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variabl...
Shaun Walker, April 14, 2008
One of the things I have been doing lately with my projects like the DotNetNuke CodeEndeavors AJAX templates along with the ClientAPI and WebControls is to use a custom MSBuild script to package the c...
The Visual Basic Team, April 14, 2008
On Wednesday we released onto the VB Developer Center the second part of Maurice de Beijer's article on Windows Workflow. In this second article about developing custom Workflow Activities, Maurice ta...