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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...
This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while, so I thought I should post it, mainly because I want to talk about this and generic variance and arrays in more detail in the days ahead. The reason this post was put on hiatus was I was waiting...
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. ...
Paul Stovell finally notices the lack of support for statement lambdas in VB9 . Unfortunately Vb9 only supports lambda expressions such as can be expressed in today's expression trees. .NET 4.0 will most probably include support for lambda statements...
If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight...
I was catching up on reading some msdn blogs and stumbled across an entry from Yves Dolce. Yves was showing how to create a word document part including a graphic . Thing was, he was using C#, not VB. Here's an example : var graphic = new XElement...
RJ posted an interesting entry about LINQ to XSD. The early LINQ to XSD bits that surfaced back in Orcas Beta 1 or thereabouts were basically an object layer of the underlying xml data. It was better than *just* an object model in that much of the XElement...
Just spotted it on MSDN subscriber downloads. Enjoy :)
I've finally given the Snippet Editor a major make over including a new look. To go with this, I've given it a new home on my web site: http://billmccarthy.com/Projects/Snippet_Editor And I've added a Snippets category to this blog for feedback...
Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping...
I got an interesting email today, which, to paraphrase, said: I would like a syntax where I can say “an XElement that follows this XSD" This question actually digs deep into the issue of strong typing versus dynamic typing and what it really is we...