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This seems so incredibly long overdue, but at last as of .NET 4, IntPtr has + and – operators added to it !! This means you can now easily write code such as : Dim ptr As IntPtr . . . . ptr += 4...
First the good news : The February release of the Snippet Editor has now had 10,000 downloads ! Now for bug fix news: There were a couple of issues with the paths per language. A problem with Express Editions of Visual Studio occurred due to partial...
Well if you mark your methods as being void from the outset …….
A couple of months ago I blogged about iterators in VB (or the lack there-of), and pointed folks to an article I wrote for Visual Studio magazine that provides snippets and templates to help with iterators in VB . One of the things I talk about in that...
Back in April 2006, I blogged about a nasty JIT compiler optimisation that would cause String.IsNullOrEmpty to throw a null reference exception; ironic really given that is the very thing you’d use the IsNullOrEmpty method to check against. ...
VB has a lot of high level features other .Net languages, in particular C# don’t. Sadly these are often overlooked by some developers because other languages like C# don’t have them – the lowest common denominator syndrome. This is sad because...
I’ve just uploaded a new screen cast: Snippet Editor Tips and Tricks Enjoy :) (oh and don’t forget the “ buy me a beer ” button)
Snippet Editor 2.1 is now released on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor Apart from the few minor bug fixes, it includes improved search and now support for Visual Studio 2010 as well as 2008 and 2005. I’ve also added a “buy me a beer...
Although VB 10 won’t have a formal syntax for iterators, it will have all the necessary ingredients to easily write iterators. In VB10 you can use a generic template and multi line lambdas to create iterators. This iterator in C# : static public...
I’ve just finished uploading the Snippet Editor to CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor It includes some minor bug fixes from the previous release. Enjoy :) And Merry XMas :)
Over the last week I’ve got a sudden influx of emails about the Snippet Editor. I’m figuring this is stemming from Lisa’s recent blog entry and her tips and trips for VS 2008 presentation :) Some of the emails have been really nice praise...
you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ? Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow. Take for example this one line of code: Dim doc = XDocument.Load( "abc...
To answer what is in VB 10, have a look at the document on the vb futures site . Basically the list is removal for the need of the line continuation character in many places, collection and array initializers, multi statement lambdas, and generic...
When Visual Studio 2008 SP1 was released it didn’t have the source code for the framework like the original version of 2008 had. Well now it has !! Actually it was released almost two weeks ago .
Davy Brion posted about how events can keep object references alive. In C# to rid yourself of this issue you have to manually unwire any event handler you wired. In VB, it is a lot easier, all you have to do is use WithEvents and set the variable...
Check out the msdn subscriber homepage . S P1 for Visual Studio 2008 English is about 830 MB… downloading at present :) Then I can install SQL 2008 :)
Lucian has kicked off the conversation on generic variance in VB , so I thought I’d write a few posts outlining my perspectives on the subject… the first of which is this one, and what better place to start than to question whether or not it is really...
It seems apparent that with computers as we currently know them, processors are now set to scale out not up.. that is, clock speeds aren’t rapidly growing, and certainly not doubling every year or two, instead the number of processors on a chip is. ...
I really like the preview pane in explorer in Vista, but it doesn’t have previews for a lot of text based files registered. You can of course write your own or download and install some other preview filters, but personally I find a text preview...
I was reading Kathleen’s post about what a C# developer needs to know about VB and thought I should clarify the bit about Booleans converted to numerics. A Boolean in VB when converted to an integer type numeric, will be zero or the bitwise Not...
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