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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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Friday, December 21, 2007 1:23 PM

What's new in VB 2008

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...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:16 PM

Cleaning up your XML literal namespaces

If you use XML literals in your code, adding one to another: Dim e1 = <a:books></a:books> dim e2 = <a:book></a:book> e1.Add(e2) You will have the xmlns declaration repeated in each of the elements, when really it is only needed...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:49 PM

Snippet Editor 2008 release

I've updated the Snippet editor to work with Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 releases. Note this release requires .NET 3.5. Changes/fixes: Added 2008 product range to the list of products Fixed replacement of the install root variable for Visual Studio...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:04 PM

Thoughts on Expression Trees

I just finished writing an article about Expression Trees for Visual Studio Magazine (aka VBPJ ) and there seemed to be some "holes" that I think should be plugged. An expression tree is basically a descriptive way of representing a lambda function...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:34 AM

Extension methods on VSM

My article about Extension methods is now on the web . Unfortunately an edit I made didn't make it into the print version (and the web version is the same as the print). The problem was as I looked at the way extension methods worked in Beta 1, it...
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