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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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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:10 PM

Least among equals ?

Patrick Meader writes on the divide between VB and C# inside Microsoft , and raises an interesting question. My response is probably going to be lengthy; more than I have time for at present. In the meanwhile, what do you think of the issues raised in...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:00 PM

Increment operators ?

Does VB need prefix and postfix increment and decrement operators ? Here's an example I posted today for a question on adding an index with LINQ: Sub Main() Dim values() As String = { "aaa" , "bbb" , "ccc" } Dim index...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:11 AM

Windows Live team continues insults at VB'ers ...

After my post about the first set of insults from the Windows Live team and the Search API samples, it was nice to see some VB samples released. Sadly though they were just the C# samples run through an automated tool. I mean look at this bullshit code...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:01 PM

C# (4.0 ?) and dynamic lookups

Kudos to Charlie Calvert for opening up the discussion of C# future features to the public (sure would be nice if the VB team did likewise). In the first post on future features , Charlie talks about dynamic lookups in C# .... Although the catchy term...
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