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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...
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...
A couple of weeks ago a friend was chatting to me in IM and asked me about a problem he was having with generics constraints. I told him he was trying to solve the lack of an INumeric interface issue. Then last week I watched Brian Beckman go through...
Visual Studio magazine's January On VB column, by your's truly, has a quick reference guide to what's new in VB 2008 . The guide includes links to earlier articles that provide more in depth information on specific features. Errata for my...
Sara Ford writes about inserting snippets in VB and C#. Unfortunately, Sara hasn't got it quite right. In VB 2008 the statement completion window does NOT show snippet shortcuts. It only shows namespaces, types, members and keywords. It just happens...
RJ posted an interesting entry about LINQ to XSD. The early LINQ to XSD bits that surfaced back in Orcas Beta 1 or thereabouts were basically an object layer of the underlying xml data. It was better than *just* an object model in that much of the XElement...
If you programmatically add attributes with namespaces to an XElement, when the XElement is written out it will give each attribute a namespace prefix and then define a xmlns for that prefix. The way XElement does this is first it examines the namespaces...
When working with VB9 you may get this cryptic error : XML namespace prefix 'xmlns' is not defined If you are using only default namespaces you can fix this by including a definition for the xmlns as an Import statement or as an xmlns attribute...
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