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June 2008 - Posts

Monday, June 30, 2008 7:28 PM

And now...the end is near...

In the MSDN Flash June 25th issue my colleague Mike gave his farewell. His mention of a typewriter has inadvertently reminded me of a great story from my early days of playing around with computers - but I will save that for "Editor's Intro" in the next
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Monday, June 30, 2008 6:59 PM

Eric will be appearing in person...

I have created a page with my future "gigs" listed - all an opportunity to see some Visual Basic, chuckle when I add a semicolon and pull me up on it if I do C# from start to finish :-) For the moment it is just a simple list but it is crying out to be
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:19 PM

Refactoring in Visual Basic

Refactoring is a hot topic and something many developers are expecting to be available straight OOTB. Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 gave C# developers a whapping 6: Rename Extract Method Remove/Reorder parameters Promote Local Extract Interface Encapsulate
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:04 PM

Proposed VB sessions for my new role - comments welcome

One of the roles of my new team is to offer a "menu" of .NET sessions to UK user groups. I was pondering about adding a couple of specific Visual Basic sessions to that "menu" and see if there was take up. I came up with the following. Any thoughts? Visual
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:32 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 long, two
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:05 AM

UK jobs using Visual Basic?

I was wondering what folks felt the job market looked like out there for Visual Basic .NET developers? Based on my experiences with ISVs it appears healthy to me - but I have had some feedback to say that Visual Basic .NET jobs are rare. I would love
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:01 AM

A week on .... making progress

Hi all, the last week flew by. Thanks very much for the comments and emails I received during that time. Keep them coming - especially any great VB resources. As mentioned previously, I don't switch role until July 1st and hence my VB posts will be a
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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 5:23 PM

An advert for Goto100...

Mandy in marketing asked me to "Create some text that we could use on a flyer to tell folks why they might want to visit that new blog of yours on Visual Basic". My first thought was "Cripes - I haven't got any real content yet!" - but I'm glad to say
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:59 PM

Interview with William Morgan of Logica UK

William has been heavily involved in helping UK companies migrate their VB6 applications to .NET. William kindly agreed to a short interview. Enjoy. William, could you just say a few words about your role inside Logica? Hi Eric, I’m the Lead Architect
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:42 PM

Interview with Artinsoft CEO Roberto Leiton Garro

A little over a year back I first spoke to Roberto to see if Artinsoft could help me with a large ISV with a significant investment in Visual Basic 6. Since then I have had the pleasure to meet Roberto on a number of occasions and have seen Artinsoft
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:27 PM

Visual Basic 6 migration to .NET

Back in April I posted a brief summary of some resources which my ISVs were finding useful as they considered moving to .NET. Since then I have been pointed by a colleague to VB Migration Partner which looks really interesting. Hopefully I can dig into
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:00 PM

Visual Basic popularity - with a twist :-)

Check out these screen clips which clearly shows that most folks are doing Visual Basic :-) Just kidding. vs C# Ok - admittedly this was on http://www.vbforums.com/ :-) (Good forums by the way!)
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:11 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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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:59 PM

A few words about me

My name is Eric and I am a Virgo :-) More importantly, as of June 2008 I am an Application Architect in Microsoft UK that has spent the last 12 years working with UK ISVs to help them explore and adopt the latest development technologies. On July 1st
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:44 PM

Welcome to Goto100 - a C# free zone for UK developers!

Hello folks and welcome to Goto100. The obvious question is - what is Goto100? There is a short answer and a longer answer to that. The short answer: It is resource for developers in the UK. For developers using Visual Basic .NET and developers faced
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