GotSpeech.NET

Published Thu, Mar 30 2006 3:27 | William
Well, now that I'm starting to get my life caught up, first things first.  I know Casey has already posted it, but Marshal and Brandon just create a killer Speech Server Site.  Since I'm getting out from under all my .NET 2.0 Work, I'm about to start diving back into Speech. 

Also, a few people have asked about my book...  Here's the update.  Monday is my first hard deadline and I'll have at least three of my chapters done.  I'm getting the hang of writing so I'm a lot quicker these days. However flipping back between the MS Press template and APress template is driving me nuts.  Weird thing is that I've been using Word since '95 and other than Powerpoint, it's the Office App I'm worst at.  I can outpimp just about anyone with InfoPath and One Note and still have 90% of the Excel object model committed to memory but when it comes to Word, it's like some really big learning block.

Which gets me to another issue, writing VB.NET and C#.  Man it's a pain in the butt.  I've dogged VB.NET a lot but that's just b/c I was trying to be cool. I got a ton of respect for VB.NET (well, let me qualify that, VB.NET with Option Strict ON) but took a long time off from writing it.  It's bizarre b/c I can still work my way through the Excel VBA editor even though the last time I really used it I was skinny but VB.NET gives me a bunch of trouble.  Actually it's flipping back between the two.  If the VB.NET team would just allow for Semicolons at the end of lines without compile errors, I'll never make fun of VB.NET again.  All my stuff for the MS Learning books have had both VB.NET and C# code and it's blown my mind how much trouble I've had with little things converting between the two.  Major frustration.  At least as far as the Speech Server book goes, I'm strictly C# (Don't worry Johnathan, I'll have them both in the code samples for the book ;-) ).

Anyway, two more days and life will be back to normal for a few weeks and hopefully I can get back to some cool stuff.  Pimping out System.Runtime.Interopservices and System.Configuration will never impress anyone. 

Comments

# Brandon Tyler said on March 29, 2006 10:55 PM:

Thanks for mentioning our site! Can't wait for your book.

# William said on March 29, 2006 11:22 PM:

Thanks B - I appreciate it. Your site rocks!

# Marshall Harrison said on March 30, 2006 6:14 AM:

Thanks Bill,

Please keep us up to date on how the book is going. If you need any technical reviewers we will be more that happy to help out.

# AndyV said on April 6, 2006 8:14 AM:

I haven't touched it but the new MSDN mag has an article titled "Paste as Visual Basic". It's supposed to be an add-in to convert C# -> VB.NET. Might be worth a try, if only to cut down on some of the grunt work involved.

Source code's at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code06.aspx

# AndyV said on April 6, 2006 8:27 AM:

Crud. Posted that link without checking it. Had to go to the article online and then copy the link to the code...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/7/f279e71e-efb0-4155-873d-5554a0608523/PasteAs.exe

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