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  • What we have here is a failure to communicate

    you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ?  Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow.  Take for example this one line of code:   Dim doc = XDocument.Load( "abc.xml" )   Now if you like to write...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Nov 13 2008
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  • The trials and tribulations of installing VS 2008 SP1

    I wasn't going to install VS 2008 SP1 Beta on my main development machine until I read a MSDN blog that said the final SP1 will install over the top of it. So I figure there's more good in getting feedback into the system now, than waiting. Installing it on my VPC's would provide limited...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, May 16 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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  • SQL Timestamps

    I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes, so why not just map it to Int64 or UInt64 and for...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Apr 8 2008
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  • Least among equals ?

    Patrick Meader writes on the divide between VB and C# inside Microsoft , and raises an interesting question. My response is probably going to be lengthy; more than I have time for at present. In the meanwhile, what do you think of the issues raised in Pat's editorial ?
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Mar 25 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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