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...
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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 ?
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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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Kudos to Charlie Calvert for opening up the discussion of C# future features to the public (sure would be nice if the VB team did likewise). In the first post on future features , Charlie talks about dynamic lookups in C# .... Although the catchy term "Dynamic" is used here, there is in fact...