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  • PDC 2010 Sessions

    You can view PDC 2010 sessions online at microsoftpdc.com , but you can also download sessions to view later or copy over to your windows 7 phone The sessions info is all online in one nice big XML file : http://videoak.microsoftpdc.com/pdc_schedule/Schedule.xml Just scroll down or search for <DownloadableContent>...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 2 2010
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  • ElementAtOrDefault

    VB 9 or later has a particular feature that can make life easier in some circumstances: the compiler allows you to access indexed items on non indexed enumerables.   Let’s say you have code such as: Dim items as IEnumerable(Of String) . . . . For i = 0 to items.Count - 1    Debug...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Dec 14 2009
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  • Iterators: a flag for simplification ?

    A couple of months ago I blogged about iterators in VB (or the lack there-of), and pointed folks to an article I wrote for Visual Studio magazine that provides snippets and templates to help with iterators in VB . One of the things I talk about in that article is often the use of iterators in C# code...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Apr 20 2009
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  • Generic Variance Part1 : Do you really need it ?

    Lucian has kicked off the conversation on generic variance in VB , so I thought I’d write a few posts outlining my perspectives on the subject… the first of which is this one, and what better place to start than to question whether or not it is really needed…… Generics came to .NET after the base framework...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Aug 10 2008
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  • Generic variance and List(Of T)

    This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while, so I thought I should post it, mainly because I want to talk about this and generic variance and arrays in more detail in the days ahead.  The reason this post was put on hiatus was I was waiting for my article on arrays to appear in Visual Studio...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Aug 7 2008
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  • Are iterators fundamentally flawed ?

    It seems apparent that with computers as we currently know them, processors are now set to scale out not up.. that is, clock speeds aren’t rapidly growing, and certainly not doubling every year or two, instead the number of processors on a chip is.  As a case in evidence, 2 or 3 years ago, my PC...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Aug 1 2008
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  • Can't get no VB Action ?

    Paul Stovell finally notices the lack of support for statement lambdas in VB9 . Unfortunately Vb9 only supports lambda expressions such as can be expressed in today's expression trees. .NET 4.0 will most probably include support for lambda statements, and hopefully at the same time VB10 will have...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Mar 27 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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  • Right tool for the job ?

    I was catching up on reading some msdn blogs and stumbled across an entry from Yves Dolce. Yves was showing how to create a word document part including a graphic . Thing was, he was using C#, not VB. Here's an example : var graphic = new XElement (dm.GetName( "graphic" ), new XAttribute...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Dec 8 2007
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  • LINQ to XSD --> VB can do better !

    RJ posted an interesting entry about LINQ to XSD. The early LINQ to XSD bits that surfaced back in Orcas Beta 1 or thereabouts were basically an object layer of the underlying xml data. It was better than *just* an object model in that much of the XElement capabilities remained, but it was still just...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Dec 5 2007
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  • VS 2008 is LIVE !!!

    Just spotted it on MSDN subscriber downloads. Enjoy :)
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Nov 19 2007
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  • Update on Snippet Editor

    I've finally given the Snippet Editor a major make over including a new look. To go with this, I've given it a new home on my web site: http://billmccarthy.com/Projects/Snippet_Editor And I've added a Snippets category to this blog for feedback, info etc. I'll update the web page with...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Nov 12 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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  • Schemas in the scheme of things...

    I got an interesting email today, which, to paraphrase, said: I would like a syntax where I can say “an XElement that follows this XSD" This question actually digs deep into the issue of strong typing versus dynamic typing and what it really is we want from a type system. A lot of people think of...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Oct 28 2007
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