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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:43 AM

Microsoft continues to treat VB as a 2nd class citizen

It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and lets you do cool things like create...
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Monday, May 05, 2008 8:15 PM

Why developers shouldn't do tech support...

I got an email inviting me to take part in some great deals on some books from a certain company ( name withheld to protect the innocent). As the site was new, they were also encouraging some feedback. As it turned out a lot of the site didn't work...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 1:08 PM

Where's the .NET framework ?

In putting together some virtual machines for testing on hyper-v, I was amazed and disappointed to find that Microsoft is NOT pushing out the .NET framework any more. On Windows XP, windows update offers only .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Vista includes 3.0. So why...
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