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you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ? Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow. Take for example this one line of code: Dim doc = XDocument.Load( "abc...
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 .
Davy Brion posted about how events can keep object references alive. In C# to rid yourself of this issue you have to manually unwire any event handler you wired. In VB, it is a lot easier, all you have to do is use WithEvents and set the variable...
Check out the msdn subscriber homepage . S P1 for Visual Studio 2008 English is about 830 MB… downloading at present :) Then I can install SQL 2008 :)
Lucian has kicked off the conversation on generic variance in VB , so I thought I’d write a few posts outlining my perspectives on the subject… the first of which is this one, and what better place to start than to question whether or not it is really...
I really like the preview pane in explorer in Vista, but it doesn’t have previews for a lot of text based files registered. You can of course write your own or download and install some other preview filters, but personally I find a text preview...
I was reading Kathleen’s post about what a C# developer needs to know about VB and thought I should clarify the bit about Booleans converted to numerics. A Boolean in VB when converted to an integer type numeric, will be zero or the bitwise Not...
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...
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...
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...