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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...
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...
Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping...
Recently a fellow MVP pointed out the addition of the TransferRequest method to the HttpServerUtility class. The documentation falsely states it as being .NET 3.0 when in fact the change is made in .NET 3.5 Beta. You'd think stating the file versions...
I just read again today the claim that you should use + for string concatenation in VB. You should NOT. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. VB has the Concatenation operator & as distinct from the + operator. Yes for the most part adding...
VB really has a very cool Select Case set of features, features that other languages with their childish switch blocks can only today dream of. For example, did you know you could do this in Vb ? Select Case myAge ' myAge is an Int32 Case 42 'totally...
Just finished watching another great channel 9 video . It really should have been two parts, but it's worth watching the whole thing. The real kicker stuff comes in about 40 minutes or so into the tape. It's really interesting to hear the talk about dynamic...