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Monday, June 08, 2009 1:18 PM

Summary of new Visual Basic Posts on Goto100

I have been sitting on a long list of part finished posts on Visual Basic “stuff” intended for my other blog http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/ . Last week I finally started to finish them and get them published. Enjoy. Virtualization and Visual Basic 6.0
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:23 PM

A random but interesting bunch of Visual Basic .NET reads

Nothing special – just a list of good Visual Basic .NET articles I read over the last month. Enjoy: Visual Basic Lambdas are not quite the same as C# Lambdas. This article explains how to work around the differences . Visual Basic needs a hand with iterators
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:52 PM

I need to let this sink in… but interesting stuff. try/catch and filters

Somebody posted a comment up my blog which contained something along the lines of  “and VB .NET does the clever try catch stuff that C# can’t” . That got parked at the back of my brain and I finally went off looking for what this was. Turns out there
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:19 PM

Visual Basic books in the UK were top sellers in the lead into Christmas

I was looking at some statistics on developer book sales in the months leading up to Christmas 2008. Overall C# outsold VB (there are a lot of C# books to choose from!) BUT VB 2008 had three of the top five slots including the number one slot. Unfortunately
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:32 PM

Secure your Visual Basic 6.0 investment with Microsoft .NET

[Reminder: This blog is moving to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable ] Over the last couple of months I have been working with Sarah in my group to pull together something which hopefully will help the many companies in the UK who continue to have
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:39 PM

Survey on the usage of Visual Basic 6.0 in UK companies – and maybe win a £1640 prize!

[Survey is live from January 21st to January 26th, 2009] I have been working with my marketing colleague Sarah to create a survey to better understand the current reliance on Visual Basic 6.0 in the UK and what plans companies have to move to .NET (or
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Friday, December 19, 2008 9:33 AM

The perfect Christmas present for your kids - a new release of Small Basic

I have previously blogged on Small Basic and only this week snuck it into a session I was doing on Parallel Programming (It is the time of year when you can get away with that sort of stuff!). This is a great way for anyone to learn how to program - my
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:56 PM

Feedback appreciated on draft screencast on VB6 and the options to move to .NET

I am working with partners to pull together guidelines, resources and special promotions on tools to help UK companies with VB6 make the right choice around moving (or not) to .NET. This will happen early in 2009. There will be a new landing page with
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Monday, November 24, 2008 9:08 AM

MSDN Flash Poll: When was the last time you wrote code in COM?

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Friday, November 21, 2008 4:13 PM

Say hi at DDD7 if you see me (and a piccy of me!)

Saturday 22nd is DDD7 day in Reading – and I will be there in my official capacity as “the Microsoft person” – which is great as I missed out on registering in my capacity as “a dev in the UK who wants to learn from smart folks”. I would love to chat
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:22 PM

Microsoft releases yet another programming language - Introducing Small Basic

Wow. I love this. This brings back all the great memories I had (even of the bugs) of how I first got into writing software using BASIC on the ZX80. My kids have already given it a massive thumbs up. First a big thanks to Vijaye for creating this in his
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Monday, November 03, 2008 2:12 PM

VB6 Applications – I’m taking a fresh look at this area on Goto100

Over on http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100 I will be taking a fresh look over the next few weeks at the question “What should we do with our VB6 applications?” I plan to explore the options, tools and resources available. You should expect few new “pearls
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:28 PM

My low tech polls: show of hands at the UK MSDN events

I have been asking a few “raise your hand” questions at the MSDN events we are currently delivering in various parts of the UK. I thought they would be worth sharing. What language do you code in? C# – around 60% VB – around 40% Something else (normally
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:55 PM

Q&A: Using both C# and Visual Basic .NET in the same Web Application

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
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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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