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  • IntPtr gets operators !!!

    This seems so incredibly long overdue, but at last as of .NET 4, IntPtr has + and – operators added to it !! This means you can now easily write code such as :     Dim ptr As IntPtr     . . . .     ptr += 4   this is great when dealing with offsets etc...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Nov 4 2009
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  • Windows Virtual PC now on MSDN

    If you’ve got Windows 7 installed, the Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 is now on MSDN subscriber downloads !!! I had the Release Candidate (RC) installed, so had to uninstall that first and reboot before installing the RTM release. All worked perfectly, and my VPC’s from the RC also are working fine...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Oct 7 2009
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  • Updates on the Snippet Editor

    First the good news : The February release of the Snippet Editor has now had 10,000 downloads ! Now for bug fix news: There were a couple of issues with the paths per language.  A problem with Express Editions of Visual Studio occurred due to partial entries in the registry I didn’t for-see. Initial...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Sep 2 2009
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  • Expression 3 is on MSDN

    With all the focus on Windows 7 RTM announcements, the availability of Expression 3 on the MSDN site last Thursday may have sneaked under folks radars.  For MSND subscribers, grab your copy of Expression 3.
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Jul 27 2009
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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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  • Snippet Editor 2.1 screen-cast

    I’ve just uploaded a new screen cast: Snippet Editor Tips and Tricks Enjoy :) (oh and don’t forget the “ buy me a beer ” button)
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Feb 5 2009
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  • New release of Snippet Editor

    Snippet Editor 2.1 is now released on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor   Apart from the few minor bug fixes, it includes improved search and now support for Visual Studio 2010 as well as 2008 and 2005. I’ve also added a “buy me a beer” button to this blog, and on the codeplex site...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Feb 3 2009
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  • Iterators in VB 10 ?

    Although VB 10 won’t have a formal syntax for iterators, it will have all the necessary ingredients to easily write iterators. In VB10 you can use a generic template and multi line lambdas to create iterators. This iterator in C# :   static public IEnumerable<String> Lines( this TextReader...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Feb 2 2009
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  • VB.Net and splash screens

    One of the nice things about the My application framework in VB.NET is the ability to easily show splash screens.  The splash screen is displayed using a separate thread and by default will close when your main form’s Load event is called. There is however a quirk with it sometimes . Whilst testing...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Jan 19 2009
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  • XSD’s in Visual Studio: Past, Present and Future.

      When I was going through the snippet editor code to put it on CodePlex, I wanted to grab a screen shot of the snippet schema.  immediately I was confronted with there being no visual designer for schemas in VS 2008, but the worse part was I could have sworn there use to be.  To clear...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Dec 29 2008
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  • Snippet Editor is now on CodePlex

    I’ve just finished uploading the Snippet Editor to CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor It includes some minor bug fixes from the previous release. Enjoy :) And Merry XMas :)
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Dec 28 2008
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  • List transactions

    From a recent discussion on using lists, and whether or not you can remove items in while iterating, I decided to write an extension that allows you to get a “transaction” for an IList(Of t).  This ListTransaction(Of T) caches adds and removes until you call commit (kudos to Duncan for the idea...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Dec 18 2008
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  • VB Snippet Editor

    Over the last week I’ve got a sudden influx of emails about the Snippet Editor.  I’m figuring this is stemming from Lisa’s recent blog entry and her tips and trips for VS 2008 presentation :)  Some of the emails have been really nice praise, folks wanting to add some features, a bug on XP 64...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Dec 8 2008
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  • What does VB 10 have ?

    To answer what is in VB 10, have a look at the document on the vb futures site .  Basically the list is removal for the need of the line continuation character in many places, collection and array initializers, multi statement lambdas, and generic variance. I decided to look back at my brief wish...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 11 2008
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  • D ??

    So if OSLO and the new language for it named “D” are part of Visual Studio, that means we’d have VB, VC++, VC#, and now VD.  I wonder if Visual D and OSLO will still let you use Strongly Typed Datasets.  OSLO: for VD with STDs I can see marketing has been busy ;)
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Sep 25 2008
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