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  • Private Class Variables

    Cory Smith has a set of posts on some of the differences between VB6 and VB10. There’s one which I think needs a bit further clarification: Private Class Variables. In VB7 and later, you can access private class variables from another instance of the class. So let’s say you had a class A with a private...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Jul 1 2011
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  • Windows Phone 7 : 6 months later

    I’ve had my HTC Mozart for about 6 months now, so I thought I’d give an update of my thoughts about it and Windows Phone 7. The first set of WP7 updates were really slow to roll-out here in Australia to Telstra: Telstra was the 2nd last mobile operator to deliver the update in the world. Given that the...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Jun 17 2011
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  • Help Library Manager and error 0x80190194

    Yesterday I noticed that the Windows Phone content had been updated online, but my local help library didn’t have the new content. So I thought I’d just open up Help Library Manager and update my local content. Sadly it wasn’t that simple. Help Library Manager would only let me update the entire collection...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Nov 12 2010
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  • Microsoft: make VB like C#

    I was reading yet another VB versus C# rant: I don’t want to get sucked into wading into that, but I will say that anyone who thinks folks that use VB can’t use C# has really got things back the front.  Most people who use VB can read and write C# quite well; they choose VB knowing both.  Whereas...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Mar 19 2009
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  • 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 from them : Select Case searchFlagsValue Case 0...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Mar 11 2008
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  • 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 most popular language base. The question remains...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Mar 3 2008
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  • Something more succinct than Function ?

    I really dislike VB's inline Function syntax... it's incredibly verbose. When they were looking at it, I suggested Func, but given that usage in the framework that would be confusing. (I hadn't seen the Func(Of T,...) delegates at that time ) I would still like something more succinct. I'm...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Feb 22 2008
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  • 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 doesn't allow that ;) To get the .wmv's,...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Feb 22 2008
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  • 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 making the language more scriptable. This isn't...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Feb 21 2008
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  • Numerics and generics

    A couple of weeks ago a friend was chatting to me in IM and asked me about a problem he was having with generics constraints. I told him he was trying to solve the lack of an INumeric interface issue. Then last week I watched Brian Beckman go through the same thing with generics, again unable to use...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Dec 21 2007
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  • What a nasty compiler bug !!

    Kathleen has posted about a real nasty bug in the VB 9 (VB 2008) compiler. And I mean nasty !! The compiler won't warn you, won't give an error of any sort.. it will just omit lines of code from your application ! Yep, it will compile as if nothing is wrong, yet it will remove your code !! If...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 20 2007
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  • Oh so you want polymorphism ???

    I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005" stream of things. There was a Q&A session at...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Nov 4 2007
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  • Counting deck chairs on the titanic

    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 the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Nov 2 2007
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