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...
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Recently a fellow MVP pointed out the addition of the TransferRequest method to the HttpServerUtility class. The documentation falsely states it as being .NET 3.0 when in fact the change is made in .NET 3.5 Beta. You'd think stating the file versions would be enough to clear up the matter, which...
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since Scott said such nice things about my last post on closures , I thought I'd add some quick references from the language spec I stumbled upon today: 11.4.2 Parenthesized Expressions A parenthesized expression consists of an expression enclosed in parentheses. A parenthesized expression is classified...
Just finished watching another great channel 9 video . It really should have been two parts, but it's worth watching the whole thing. The real kicker stuff comes in about 40 minutes or so into the tape. It's really interesting to hear the talk about dynamic languages with Erik Meijer and of course Joel...