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Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:54 AM

Visual Basic and .NET Framework Versions

A couple of folks have asked me recently about Visual Basic versions and .NET Framework versions and how they tie up. I thought I would have a stab at a concept map to demonstrate the relationship. Note that things got very different with the release
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:48 PM

C# and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

As I dig into Visual Basic a bit further I to realise what I have been missing as a (lapsed) C# developer. A great example is some of the goodness wrapped up in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll. It is a standard part of the .NET Framework and… is absolutely
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Monday, July 28, 2008 12:20 PM

UK MSDN events now scheduled

Topics have been chosen, venues confirmed and details posted on our events site . We will be showing up at 6 cities through Sept and October with a lot of the content focused on Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Me – I will be delivering the “data bit”
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:16 AM

Great WPF application?

Today I set aside sometime to watch some “random podcasts”. Ok, not that random in that I decided they either had to be about Entity Framework or WPF. The WPF episode I chose turned out to be a great choice – a real world line of business application
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:31 AM

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

I have been playing with tools to convert C# over to Visual Basic - given how many samples only exist as C# :-(. I posted a detailed list + recommendation over on Goto 100 .
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:38 PM

Visual Basic samples for WPF book - Applications = Code + Markup

Once again, Ged Meads work on WPF catches my eye. A big thanks to Ged, Young Joo and Evan Lim for converting the C# samples over to Visual Basic for Petzolds book on WPF (Only 3 left in stock at Amazon UK - lets get those sold as well - but be warned,
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:59 PM

40% off .NET Books (UK)

I posted details over at Goto100 - enjoy!
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:20 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:24 AM

Maybe see you at NxtGenUG Fest08 in Reading on Thursday 12th?

I love to put faces to names (not least because I am terrible with names but pretty decent with faces!). I am doing a short 10minute intro as part of the keynote of Fest08 tomorrow and hope to work in the back of the room as much as possible during the
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:04 PM

VB6 migrations - two interviews for your enjoyment

Over on my other blog I just posted two short interviews I did with Roberto (CEO of Artinsoft) and William (Lead Architect in Logica UK). Enjoy.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:21 PM

Visual Basic remains incredibly popular - but don't just take my word for it

I see in my travels lots of developers using C# - but I also see plenty doing Visual Basic .NET, just not quite as many. I have been attempting to get a better feel for just how many folks are using which - and have been using highly scientific techniques
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Friday, May 23, 2008 4:42 PM

Are you a UK ISV writing .NET applications in Visual Basic?

Then I would like to hear from you . We are trying to a) better understand how UK ISVs are deciding between C# and Visual Basic and b) I am personally interested in exploring how we can give some recognition to UK ISVs using Visual Basic rather than C#
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:17 PM

Visual Basic 6 migration to .NET

A few ISV have asked me an identical question this week "what resources are available to help me move from Visual Basic 6 to .NET". I plan to expand on this in the coming weeks - but for now a swift set of the best links: Keep an eye on the
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Friday, March 23, 2007 9:56 AM

ISV looking for help to migrate from VB6 to .NET

I needed to do some research for one of our larger UK ISVs on VB6 migration options. As part of that I spoke to one of the Execs at Artinsoft and thought it would be useful to share what I found out more broadly. But first some background... VB6 migration
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:16 AM

And while I'm thinking about upgrading - what about VB6....

UK MSDN Flash went out with a great little article by my colleague Tim Sneath - copied here for convenience. I would definitely recommend MSDN Flash to folks - sign up at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/subscriptions/register.asp P.S. Doesn't Tim look
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