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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:10 PM

Least among equals ?

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...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:00 PM

Increment operators ?

Does VB need prefix and postfix increment and decrement operators ? Here's an example I posted today for a question on adding an index with LINQ: Sub Main() Dim values() As String = { "aaa" , "bbb" , "ccc" } Dim index...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:11 AM

Windows Live team continues insults at VB'ers ...

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...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:17 AM

Now the entire Windows Live team says f*ck you VB

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...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:39 PM

Live Search gives VB the finger

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...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:05 PM

More on videos from Lang.NET symposium

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...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 1:47 PM

videos from Lang.Net symposium

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...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:37 PM

Microsoft thinks VB programmers are so "special" ...

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...
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