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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:58 PM

Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open

The team and I were having a conversation about developers (we do that from time to time). It went something like: “Isn’t it a shame that so many developers are stuck on Visual Studio 2005 when Visual Studio 2008 would be way better for them and Visual
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
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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Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:06 PM

MSDN Flash Poll: Will you take a dependency on 3rd party controls or libraries?

We seem to have a small hiccup with the polling software we normally use in the UK MSDN Flash . Zoho polls to the rescue… I am interested in whether you will happily take a dependency on software developed by a company other than Microsoft as part of
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:41 PM

Q&A: Multi targeting and Visual Studio 2008, how do I ensure I only use the available APIs?

This question has come up a couple of times in the last few weeks as developers move to Visual Studio 2008 but need to continue to work on Visual Studio 2005 projects. The good news is we have a comprehensive solution for this thanks to the Code Analysis/FxCop
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Monday, October 06, 2008 7:45 PM

Q&A: Can I use LINQ with .NET Framework 2.0?

This question from one of my MSDN sessions has stumped me for a while. I know the new language features in Visual Studio 2008 (e.g. LINQ!) are compiler magic which ultimately spits out CLR 2.0 code – but what about the supporting assemblies? Hence… I
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:40 PM

WPF Datagrid is here – well, nearly here…

I posted in July on DataGrids (or rather the absence of them) in WPF. While I was on holiday last week, this snuck out - The WPF Toolkit on Codeplex . The WPF team have split their work into: Toolkit – what they know they will release Futures – what they
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:14 PM

Two tools I MUST find some time to try – Typemock and NDepend

I have had my eye on two tools for sometime. Both tools look extremely useful. Both tools have a very different focus. Both tools look hot! Regrettably – both tools continue to be ignored while I spend time getting myself up to speed on the basics :-(
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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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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 .
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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,
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 10:05 AM

Code Snippets - friend or foe?

This is really a thinly disguised test of zoho polls - but also an interesting topic to me as I get back into development. Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2008  have reached a level where they are very useful to "get the job done". However 
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Friday, June 20, 2008 2:31 PM

Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day
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