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...
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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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a few weeks ago, I posted a quiz about the syntax low < x < high, which really was a quiz about implicit casting of Booleans. Of course the great Dan Appleman got that one right :) That quiz stemmed from an earlier post , and raised some questions about values of Booleans in general. I plan to...
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Builderau describing how to use snippets in Visual Studio 2005. I was kind of amazed to see that they provided two links to "snippy" editor, but not a single one link to the VB Snippet Editor. That's despite the VB Snippet Editor being open source and also linked...
Well not really. But it has been interesting to watch the storm in a teacup over personas, the last day or so. What's really weird is the best post I have read on the matter has been by Paul !! ;) I'm not going to go into Scott Belaware's post, but saying it read like an axe to grind is putting it mildly...
I was just reading another one of Billy's blog entries, but this time I really have to disagree: Billy said : " At first, VB was to be brought into conformity with other languages on how AND and OR clauses are handled in If statements. That is, given the condition "x AND y", then if x is False, it's...
In Visual Studio 2005, we typically have a lot of generated code per application. Strongly typed datasets are a classic example of this. One difficulty of having generated code parts of a class alongside manually written parts has been removed due to the use of partial classes and physical separation...
When working with generics, there will be times you want to "clear" a variable reference, eg set it to null. In Vb.NET you can simply assign the value of Nothing, eg: Dim x as T x = Nothing This works perfectly for all types of T, be it a Structure, a reference type, or an intrinsic type. C# on the other...
So I was reading Andrew Coates blog entry about the keyboard hanging in VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and I went to reply to it so as to point him to Bill Vaughn's blog entry on the subject .... you know the typical smart a*s post saying "well if you subscribe to Bill Vaughn's blog you would have known that already...