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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, 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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Friday, March 28, 2008 1:40 PM

Auto properties : What ifs ...

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...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:30 PM

Can't get no VB Action ?

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...
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Friday, March 14, 2008 10:50 AM

Using the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Zip assembly

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...
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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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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:17 AM

Now the entire Windows Live team says f*ck you VB

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...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:39 PM

Live Search gives VB the finger

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...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 1:47 PM

videos from Lang.Net symposium

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...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:37 PM

Microsoft thinks VB programmers are so "special" ...

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...
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Monday, February 18, 2008 4:14 PM

Power Pack 3.0 released !!

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...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:05 PM

Arrays in VB.NET

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...
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