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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...
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...
Recently a fellow MVP pointed out the addition of the TransferRequest method to the HttpServerUtility class. The documentation falsely states it as being .NET 3.0 when in fact the change is made in .NET 3.5 Beta. You'd think stating the file versions...
a few weeks ago, I posted a quiz about the syntax low < x < high, which really was a quiz about implicit casting of Booleans. Of course the great Dan Appleman got that one right :) That quiz stemmed from an earlier post , and raised some questions...
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Builderau describing how to use snippets in Visual Studio 2005. I was kind of amazed to see that they provided two links to "snippy" editor, but not a single one link to the VB Snippet Editor. That's despite...
Well not really. But it has been interesting to watch the storm in a teacup over personas, the last day or so. What's really weird is the best post I have read on the matter has been by Paul !! ;) I'm not going to go into Scott Belaware's post, but saying...
I was just reading another one of Billy's blog entries, but this time I really have to disagree: Billy said : " At first, VB was to be brought into conformity with other languages on how AND and OR clauses are handled in If statements. That is, given...
In Visual Studio 2005, we typically have a lot of generated code per application. Strongly typed datasets are a classic example of this. One difficulty of having generated code parts of a class alongside manually written parts has been removed due to...
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When working with generics, there will be times you want to "clear" a variable reference, eg set it to null. In Vb.NET you can simply assign the value of Nothing, eg: Dim x as T x = Nothing This works perfectly for all types of T, be it a Structure, a...
So I was reading Andrew Coates blog entry about the keyboard hanging in VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and I went to reply to it so as to point him to Bill Vaughn's blog entry on the subject .... you know the typical smart a*s post saying "well if you subscribe to...
A new feature in Vb.NET 2005, requested by your's truely, is the ability to include the "0 To " in array declarations. Whe nI asked for this feature though, I aksed for it to be a project level switch, such that the "0 To " would always be included for...
In Whidbey both Vb.NET and C# get strongly typed resources. But the intellisense story is very different When hovering over a resource named AResourceString in C#, intellisense display the type information and the comments, hence displaying the default...
About six months ago I blogged about some of the issues with Default Instances . More recently Paul started to blog about Default Instances . Now judging from the feedback Paul has gotten, and the conversations I have had, there seems to be a lot of people...
Just like drinking and driving, seperately both are fun things, but put them together and we have a situation where loss becomes a likely result Consider this code : Public Class Invoice Public Price As Decimal Shared Operator +( ByVal first As Invoice...
I was reading Bill Ryan’s blog rant about Option Strict Off , and although I whole heartedly agree with him when it comes to writing .NET code, (that is turn Option Strict On and leave it On !!), I think some folk have missed the point as to why...
In Vb.NET we can use the Imports statement to create aliases, such as : Imports VB = Microsoft.VisualBasic Then in code we can simply type VB. And intellisense lists the members of the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace. Pretty cool huh ? But what would...
Rocky raises an eyebrow at the idea some folk at MS would like to have their own nDoc tool in VS.NET. I don’t see this as a crushing open source thing, more it’s giving customers a better integrated experience. Having the tool in the box makes...
Windows.Forms in Whidbey includes a new design time property you can set on controls. This property is named GenerateMember. Set it to False, and instead of the usual field generated for the control, it only gets declared inside the InitializeComponent...
(Setting WithEvents to Nothing) Under the covers , Events use Delegates, and Delegates store a reference to the object in which the method address resides. (Sender property of Delegate). One major problem with this, is if you have shared components or...
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