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I wasn't going to install VS 2008 SP1 Beta on my main development machine until I read a MSDN blog that said the final SP1 will install over the top of it. So I figure there's more good in getting feedback into the system now, than waiting. Installing...
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...
I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes...
Well April first pranks have come and gone. Google, the fun company , had lots of hilarious April 1st pages and sub sites on their web: Virgle colony to Mars , Moon base work centre, new google anytime scheduling; all really well done :) Microsoft on...
Patrick Meader writes on the divide between VB and C# inside Microsoft , and raises an interesting question. My response is probably going to be lengthy; more than I have time for at present. In the meanwhile, what do you think of the issues raised in...
No, not the chocolate ones or the decorated chicken eggs... I mean software easter eggs. Like the ones in Excel where you could display an animated scroll of all the contributors. And they had similar in Outlook, and even in Visual Studio 6 ! Has all...
"First time or casual programming" : that's apparently what VB is good for. If you want a great combination of power and productivity that's what C# is good for...... well, at least that's how Microsoft tells it to us . Microsoft...
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...
It must be hot or I'm having one of those days. I was just testing some code and it seemed to do the unexpected. The problem was I had written : Public Overrides ReadOnly Property IsInvalid() As Boolean Get Me .handle = IntPtr.Zero End Get End Property...
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...
I really dislike VB's inline Function syntax... it's incredibly verbose. When they were looking at it, I suggested Func, but given that usage in the framework that would be confusing. (I hadn't seen the Func(Of T,...) delegates at that time...
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...
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...
As you probably know Windows Server 2008 has been released. I set up a virtual machine for the 64 bit Win 2008 with VMWare (Virtual PC doesn't support 64 bit) and was happily surprised to see I could just drag a VB6 application into the VM and it...
In what seems to be the latest buzz word at Microsoft, seems everything is being democratised. I first noticed the term when Eric Meijer talked about "democratizing the cloud". Then yesterday I was reading Mary Jo Folley's article on Microsoft's...
Via Julie's blog , I stumbled upon some recent stats for last year's US patents: 1 st IBM 3148 2 nd Samsung 2725 3 rd Canon 1987 4 th Matsushita 1941 5 th Intel 1865 6 th Microsoft 1637 Most of these companies, such as IBM make semi conductors...
Despite all the talk about VBA and whether or not it will be in the next version of office, is the message from Microsoft clear ? On the Excel blog they claim "no plans for the removal" On the VSTO blog they claim "the next generation of...
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