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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Visual Studio magazine's January On VB column, by your's truly, has a quick reference guide to what's new in VB 2008 . The guide includes links to earlier articles that provide more in depth information on specific features. Errata for my January column : The web site fails to display &...
If you use XML literals in your code, adding one to another: Dim e1 = <a:books></a:books> dim e2 = <a:book></a:book> e1.Add(e2) You will have the xmlns declaration repeated in each of the elements, when really it is only needed once per the document or outer element. The problem...
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I've updated the Snippet editor to work with Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 releases. Note this release requires .NET 3.5. Changes/fixes: Added 2008 product range to the list of products Fixed replacement of the install root variable for Visual Studio that was resulting in a double \ midway of file...
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I just finished writing an article about Expression Trees for Visual Studio Magazine (aka VBPJ ) and there seemed to be some "holes" that I think should be plugged. An expression tree is basically a descriptive way of representing a lambda function. The standard LINQ query operators (e.g Where...
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My article about Extension methods is now on the web . Unfortunately an edit I made didn't make it into the print version (and the web version is the same as the print). The problem was as I looked at the way extension methods worked in Beta 1, it was as I was told it would work form discussions...