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  • String.IsNullOrEmpty : update on that nasty null reference exception

    Back in April 2006, I blogged about a nasty JIT compiler optimisation that would cause String.IsNullOrEmpty to throw a null reference exception;  ironic really given that is the very thing you’d use the IsNullOrEmpty method to check against.  Well since then, due to popular demand on the connect...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Mar 10 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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  • 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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  • .NET 3.5 SP1 source code

    When Visual Studio 2008 SP1 was released it didn’t have the source code for the framework like the original version of 2008 had. Well now it has !!  Actually it was released almost two weeks ago .
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Sep 11 2008
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  • Microsoft continues to treat VB as a 2nd class citizen

    It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and lets you do cool things like create games for Zunes, unless of course you want to do...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, May 8 2008
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  • Where's the .NET framework ?

    In putting together some virtual machines for testing on hyper-v, I was amazed and disappointed to find that Microsoft is NOT pushing out the .NET framework any more. On Windows XP, windows update offers only .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Vista includes 3.0. So why is it that Microsoft will push out 2.0, but not...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Apr 13 2008
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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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  • Now the entire Windows Live team says f*ck you VB

    Yesterday I reported how the Windows Live Search team posted samples in 5 different languages, but not VB. Well today the Live team has posted their Live ID Web Authentication SDK, which boasts : This release includes a sample application for each of six different programming languages: ASP.NET, Java...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Mar 4 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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  • 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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  • Microsoft thinks VB programmers are so "special" ...

    I was flicking through some MSDN help pages, when I noticed this topic on Component Authoring: Isn't it nice how "special" Microsoft views VB folks. Obviously anyone using C# doesn't have this issue, it's just the people using VB. Not patronising at all <geez> Oh well, at...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Feb 20 2008
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  • Power Pack 3.0 released !!

    Just noticed the VB Power Pack 3.0 has been released with the much anticipated Data Repeater component...... Haven't had a chance to test it yet, but fingers crossed it looks promising. The download is here , the pretty splash page about it is here .
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Feb 18 2008
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  • Arrays in VB.NET

    You probably know that declaring an array in VB, such as : Dim names(9) As String creates an array with 10 elements. As of VB8 you can use the 0 To syntax for the same thing: Dim names(0 To 9) As String I prefer the 0 To syntax as it clearer for those from other languages as well as clearer for me ;...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Feb 15 2008
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  • Shiny new icons and improved icon editor !

    Thanks to Julie's post , I looked in the image library that comes with VS 2008 and found some nice new images. What's really cools is many of the icons are in Vista format. Open them with Visual Studio, and you'll see that the Visual Studio icon editor has also been improved, providing a...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Jan 23 2008
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  • Add As Link

    in VB 2008 you get a great intellisense experience when working with XML axis properties if you add the schema(s) to your project. You don't need to add the actual schema, you can just add a link. From the Project menu select Add Existing Item, browse to the xsd file then do NOT click Add, instead...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Jan 16 2008
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  • Open Containing Folder

    Sara Ford writes about the "Open Containing Folder" command in Visual Studio. I use that sometimes, but it won't work on "temporary" projects, instead that menu appears grayed out. The trick here is to add a Explorer item to your Tools menu, and give it the argument of $(ItemDir...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Jan 10 2008
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  • Return what ???

    I was looking at Lisa's latest blog entries , and the second last screen shot made me sit back and say "what": In that example of Lisa's, the local variable surfaceArea is actually the one that VB creates for you by default, allowing you to assign to the function name. If you don't...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Jan 9 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'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 &amp;...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Dec 20 2007
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  • Inserting snippets in VB.

    Sara Ford writes about inserting snippets in VB and C#. Unfortunately, Sara hasn't got it quite right. In VB 2008 the statement completion window does NOT show snippet shortcuts. It only shows namespaces, types, members and keywords. It just happens that many of VB's keywords are also snippet...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Dec 12 2007
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