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TechEd.Last

The last day of TechEd and my feet appreciate the fact All the standing around took its toll and I guess I should have brought different shoes. O well a good thing to remember for next year. Saw some more interesting sessions this morning. I started off with a session from György Balássy about using...

Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on 11-09-2007
Filed under: .NET, Workflow, VB, DevCenter
TechEd day 4

Just another day at the office called TechEd Today was another good day. Some very interesting sessions to watch and unfortunately some not so good as well. On the good side I heard Justin Smith give a deep dive presentation about WCF and he did an excellent job explaining the internals. I am not sure...

Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on 11-08-2007
Filed under: .NET, VB, DevCenter, TechEd
Old error, new look !

In playing with Windows.Forms in VS 2008, I got the same old error I use to get in VS 2005 sometimes: Type must be a type provided by the runtime. Parameter name: type The good news is it looks so much prettier in VS 2008. It's not fixed, but look, isn't it pretty ? So why is it that the phrase...

Posted to @ Head (Weblog) by bill on 11-07-2007
Filed under: VB, Orcas, DevCenter
TechEd day 2

So another day at TechEd Barcelona. Not all that much to report though. I had booth duty at the Ask The Experts booth all day so didn't get to see any sessions yet. The booth was pretty quiet with not to many questions, so not much to report there. Now I am waiting for the last session slot of the...

Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on 11-06-2007
Filed under: .NET, Workflow, VSTO, VB, TechEd
TechEd Day 1

So TechEd Barcelona has started. Soma Somasegar did the keynote. No big surprises there and no real big announcements either. He did day that Visual Studio 2008 would be RTMed before the end of the month. Not the big news a lot where hopping for, i.e. that it was released today, but still some very welcome...

Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on 11-05-2007
Filed under: .NET, VB, TechEd
Oh so you want polymorphism ???

I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005" stream of things. There was a Q&A session at...

Posted to @ Head (Weblog) by bill on 11-05-2007
Filed under: VB, Rant, Orcas, DevCenter, VB10
Counting deck chairs on the titanic

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...

Posted to @ Head (Weblog) by bill on 11-02-2007
Filed under: VB, Life, Whidbey, Rant, Orcas, LINQ, DevCenter, VB10
Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation on the Visual Basic Community Site

An article/walktrough I wrote on Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation has been posted to the Visual Basic Community Site . In my previous article, Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation , I described the basics of creating and consuming a simple WCF service...

Posted to Rob Windsor's Weblog (Weblog) by windsor on 11-02-2007
Filed under: Development, Article, WCF, VB
OK is not OK, but Close is ?

I've been rummaging through the Windows Vista User Interface Experience Guidelines draft, a 33 MB pdf file , and it poses some interesting questions around warning and exception dialog messages. Now apparently it is not OK to present the user with an exception message and an OK button. Instead the...

Posted to @ Head (Weblog) by bill on 11-01-2007
Filed under: VB, Rant, DevCenter
Developing custom Workflow activities

On November 22 nd I will be presenting an evening session on developing custom workflow activities for the .NED user group in the Netherlands. During this session I will show you why you would want to do so in the first place, after all there are lots of standard activities to choose from. And once you...

Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on 10-31-2007
Filed under: .NET, Workflow, VB, DevCenter

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