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July 2008 - Posts

Monday, July 28, 2008 8:55 PM

var != Dim – or why Visual Basic is the right choice for working with Microsoft Office

I just came across a great post from Scott (as so many of his are) which starts with an explanation of why C# var is not the same as Dim in Visual Basic ( var <> Dim ? ) but turns into a great example of why Visual Basic is a much better choice
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Monday, July 28, 2008 8:39 PM

Visual Basic Language Design Meeting on Channel 9

Beth Massi sat down with the VB Language design team to “talk about their design process, favourite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is”. Thanks Beth – very useful. Looking forward
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Monday, July 28, 2008 8:31 PM

200 LINQ Samples in Visual Basic

I recently discovered LINQPad . It is written by Joseph Albahari who wrote C# 3.0 in a NutShell and contains all the samples from his book. It is an amazing tool – and not an obvious tool to turn to if you are a Visual Basic developer. However – a certain
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Monday, July 28, 2008 12:21 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 11:23 AM

What a C# coder should know before moving to VB

I am one of those C# coders moving to VB that Kathleen is thinking about in her post on What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB . Very useful stuff. Thanks Kathleen. I liked the first one (of 68!) “Get over the respect thing or quit before you
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:18 AM

Great WPF application written in Visual Basic

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 1:15 AM

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

First Created: Wednesday 23rd July 2008 Updated: Thursday 24th July 2008 - added Telerik I have been playing with C# to Visual Basic converters. There are a few around and I have included the best I came across. However right now there is one clear winner
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:34 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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Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:18 PM

Ged Mead on Windows Presentation Foundation

UK Visual Basic MVP Ged has been taking a look at WPF this year. I spotted his post on WPF Basics: How To Play Sounds and Music in Windows Presentation Foundation a couple of weeks back and found it a clean, easy to follow example - that really tried
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:26 PM

Visual Basic vs C# - early adopters favour C#?

This myth is typically from someone in Microsoft who thinks, codes, demos and blogs in C# and wants to justify why they might ignore Visual Basic - errrr.... such as me a few months back. Sorry. "Sure - there may well be a lot of folks using Visual Basic
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Monday, July 14, 2008 12:33 PM

Visual Basic Line Continuation Character (and more on VB10)

I previously posted about Amanda discussing the future of VB . One of the things Amanda talked about was the line continuation character. I just come across a little more detail from Feb 2008. This post is by Paul Vick who is the language architect for
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:56 PM

40% off Visual Basic .NET and C# Books ... (UK)

Visual Basic 6 developer moving to .NET - you need a good book! http://www.microsoft-press.co.uk/hellodotnet I have been looking for ways to help the Visual Basic 6 folks transition to .NET. Paul in my old ISV team suggested a discount of Microsoft Press
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:02 PM

My first MSDN Flash is live - July 9th 2008

Yesterday was my first MSDN Flash . It was fun to put together working with Mandy in Marketing. I think I roughly now understand the flow back and forth and next time it should be much easier. As promised - I managed to get a couple of Visual Basic links
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:45 PM

Intellisense - VB 2005 vs VB2008 + a great example of mixing VB with XML

I had not appreciated just how much intellisense had improved between releases of Visual Basic until I spent 6mins watching this (which isn't a huge surprise as I have never coded in VB 2005). Lisa also does a great job of showing the real power of XML
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:19 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 is you
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Friday, July 04, 2008 10:35 AM

Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and the future of VB

Annoyingly I am on leave today and my wife has a long list for me that doesn't include 27mins to watch this video. P.S. I will update this post once I get a chance to watch it! Got to watch it today. Definitely worth a watch if VB is your thing - although
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