Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Orcas (
RSS)
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. ...
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...
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 :)
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 .
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...
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...
Paul Vick posted a speculative post as to Automatically Implemented properties for VB10. Although it's kind of nice, it really is just a minor modification from what C# did in 3.0 and misses a lot of the "what if" scenarios we should be...
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...
I got an email today asking about the use of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Zip assembly. Hi, my name is XXXXXX and I'm from XXXXX. I'm writing a custom .Vsi writer and I saw that in the Code Snippet Editor for VB 2008 (a great tool!) you made use...
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...
Yesterday I reported how the Windows Live Search team posted samples in 5 different languages, but not VB. Well today the Live team has posted their Live ID Web Authentication SDK, which boasts : This release includes a sample application for each of...
Microsoft's Live Search API team have released samples in Java, PHP, C#, Python and Ruby, but no VB samples. Better not say the " N word ", even though that's the way it seems yet another team at Microsoft chooses to treat their supposedly...
Thanks to Paul Vick for pointing out the Lang.Net symposium talks are now on the web. I've only watched a few so far, but here's my thoughts/review of them Paul's talk on VB.Next A quick overview of one area VB will probably be heading is...
I was flicking through some MSDN help pages, when I noticed this topic on Component Authoring: Isn't it nice how "special" Microsoft views VB folks. Obviously anyone using C# doesn't have this issue, it's just the people using VB...
Just noticed the VB Power Pack 3.0 has been released with the much anticipated Data Repeater component...... Haven't had a chance to test it yet, but fingers crossed it looks promising. The download is here , the pretty splash page about it is here...
You probably know that declaring an array in VB, such as : Dim names(9) As String creates an array with 10 elements. As of VB8 you can use the 0 To syntax for the same thing: Dim names(0 To 9) As String I prefer the 0 To syntax as it clearer for those...
Thanks to Julie's post , I looked in the image library that comes with VS 2008 and found some nice new images. What's really cools is many of the icons are in Vista format. Open them with Visual Studio, and you'll see that the Visual Studio...
in VB 2008 you get a great intellisense experience when working with XML axis properties if you add the schema(s) to your project. You don't need to add the actual schema, you can just add a link. From the Project menu select Add Existing Item, browse...
Sara Ford writes about the "Open Containing Folder" command in Visual Studio. I use that sometimes, but it won't work on "temporary" projects, instead that menu appears grayed out. The trick here is to add a Explorer item to your...
I was looking at Lisa's latest blog entries , and the second last screen shot made me sit back and say "what": In that example of Lisa's, the local variable surfaceArea is actually the one that VB creates for you by default, allowing...
More Posts
Next page »