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  • VB Quark #7 : Optional Parameters and Dates

    Hopefully you already know VB has full support for Optional parameters, both declaring them and calling them, but did you know you can use Dates as Optional parameters ?    Public   Sub AddNewCustomer(customer As   Customer ,                              ...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 8 2011
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  • Displaying Dates in VS 2010

    From time to time there’s discussion about the way dates are displayed in the Visual Studio IDE for Visual Basic. Typically dates are shown using VB’s date literal syntax of #MM/dd/yyyy# which is the standard US format. For people outside of the USA this can be confusing or ambiguous at times...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Nov 7 2011
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  • VB Windows Phone Toolkit Aug 11 sample

    The Silverlight Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011 (7.1 SDK) doesn't contain a working VB sample.  If you try to load the VB sample that does ship, you’ll get hundreds of errors.  So I put together the VB sample that should have shipped. Download the VB Windows Phone Toolkit samples Enjoy...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Aug 19 2011
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  • WP7 copy and paste is here !

    In the emulator in the tools SDK that is   Still waiting on the actual phone update, but for developers the tools update is now available from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=49b9d0c5-6597-4313-912a-f0cca9c7d277&displaylang=en
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Feb 5 2011
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  • LightSwitch

    So with the recent hype about “KittyHawk”, comes the product: LightSwitch. Jason Sanders has an introducing light switch blog entry up now. It looks good/promising.  The name however is terrible. Searching for it with Google will be a needle in a hay stack .
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Aug 3 2010
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  • .NET 4 is on windows update !

    Today I was running windows update on some virtual machines, and noticed that .NET 4 Client Profile is available via windows update.  Seems it was released to windows update in June. For Windows XP the update is optional . For Windows 7 and Vista the update is recommended .  What this basically...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Jul 20 2010
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