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  • 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 January column : The web site fails to display &...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Dec 20 2007
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  • 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 once per the document or outer element. The problem...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Nov 23 2007
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  • 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 that was resulting in a double \ midway of file...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 6 2007
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  • 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. The standard LINQ query operators (e.g Where...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Aug 15 2007
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  • 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 was as I was told it would work form discussions...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, May 30 2007
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