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Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:38 AM

The trials and tribulations of installing VS 2008 SP1

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...
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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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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:31 AM

Bit-wise algebra

Today I answered a question saying use A XOr (A And B). Then I thought, well isn't that the same as A And Not (A And B). Now I knew there is a simplification because of the double A and both And's but I honestly couldn't remember all my boolean...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 2:05 AM

VB on the up !

Latest TOIBE analysis shows VB on the up ! VB 11.7 %, C# 3.8%
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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:40 PM

More on implied interfaces.

If you read section 12.2 of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Partition II document, you'll see the following part in regards to interface implementation: If there are any virtual methods in the interface that still have empty slots, see if...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:36 PM

SQL Timestamps

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...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:33 PM

Implied Interfaces

One of the many things I love about VB is it's explicit interface mapping . It's the beauty of declarative coding that not only allows for flexible mapping but also makes the code explicit. You don't need to know the intimate details of a...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:39 PM

VB finished ??

If you open Visual Studio 2008, you'll notice that the start page for VB hasn't been updated since December 4th, 2007. Strangely enough the VB team's blog still seems to be used from time to time. Hopefully someone's just asleep at the...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:36 AM

Google kicks Microsoft's a**

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...
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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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