I get quite a random set of questions coming into my Inbox from folks I meet at events, conferences and through my blog. I thought it might be useful if I started sharing my answers when these come in. To start this off, I was asked: “We have two .NET...

Blimey – and I am only just getting my head round Visual Studio 2008 :-) These are exciting times. You can find all the public details over on msdn . There is also a week of videos appearing on channel9 . Nearly forgot, we are having another stab at decent...

As folks should know, as of July I stopped doing any demos in C# (pretty much) and switched to Visual Basic .NET – the simple reason being I know at every event we attend we have a large contingent of VB developers that we make sit through C# demo after...

We have a rather impressive set of new technologies for working with data – LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, Data Services, ASP.NET Dynamic Data etc. What I am finding is… they don’t all get on with each other as well as you might have thought. My...

Just stumbled across this great resource of very nicely done screencasts on developing with Visual Basic 2008. Each topic area is split into a number of 10minute screencasts which are very professionally done. Great work by Bill Burrows who is a faculty...

I am confused on this one. I have had people tell me it is excellent and others tell me it is just “ok” – and can’t see a pattern. Anyone given it a good going over?

It is 12am and I should be sleeping but I just stumbled across this blog site by Arsalan Tamiz focusing on VB 2005 development http://arsalantamiz.blogspot.com/ . It appears to have been only going a few months but he has been very busy! Plenty for me...