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Cory Smith has a set of posts on some of the differences between VB6 and VB10. There’s one which I think needs a bit further clarification: Private Class Variables. In VB7 and later, you can access private class variables from another instance of the...
I’ve had my HTC Mozart for about 6 months now, so I thought I’d give an update of my thoughts about it and Windows Phone 7. The first set of WP7 updates were really slow to roll-out here in Australia to Telstra: Telstra was the 2nd last mobile operator...
Yesterday I noticed that the Windows Phone content had been updated online, but my local help library didn’t have the new content. So I thought I’d just open up Help Library Manager and update my local content. Sadly it wasn’t that simple. Help Library...
Last night I accidentally pulled out the wrong power plugs, crashing my computer. For some reason this meant it wouldn’t start properly. I don’t quite get why that would mean it wouldn’t start as the hard disc didn’t fail, but none the less it wouldn...
I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005"...
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've been rummaging through the Windows Vista User Interface Experience Guidelines draft, a 33 MB pdf file , and it poses some interesting questions around warning and exception dialog messages. Now apparently it is not OK to present the user with...
C# has some interesting rules for operators on nullable types. Given: int? x ; int? y ; Laws of transitivity tells us that if x is equal to y, (x == y), then x<= y would be true too. Well not in C#. With this function: static void test(int? arg1, int...