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Friday, August 22, 2008 5:22 PM

Believe it or not – I’m off on holiday again

I really have got a taste for this thing called “holiday” - hence I am off to do it again for a week. Have fun all.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:23 PM

Visual Basic and .NET Framework Versions

Hi all, apologies for the pause in blogging. This is holiday season and I am … having plenty of holiday :-) (Which makes a nice change) A couple of folks have asked me recently about Visual Basic versions and .NET Framework versions and how they tie up.
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Friday, August 08, 2008 10:20 AM

See you all in a weeks time

I need to crack on with some other work today before my holiday. I should be back on the blogosphere (!) on the 18th. In the meantime – have fun, cut great code and always make up before bed time…
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:36 PM

Updated the list of events I will be attending/delivering sessions

Just a quick note to say I have updated my “ Eric will be appearing ” page. October is looking busy :-) 2nd MSDN Event Reading http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb905504.aspx for all MSDN events 7th MSDN Event Manchester 14th MSDN Event Birmingham 16th
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:39 AM

SQL Server 2008 is finished – break out the bubbly

SQL Server 2008 RTM’d yesterday (August 6th). It is already available on MSDN subscriber downloads http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx . Express edition doesn’t appear to be up there yet. Well done to the team.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:04 PM

Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - #1 in the UK

I remembered Paul Vick (VB team) spoke to Scott end of 2008 – and as part of that Paul mentioned four interesting metrics. Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:52 PM

Class Visual Basic Column in Visual Studio Magazine

You may (or may not) remember that Visual Studio Magazine used to be heavily focused on classic Visual Basic. I haven’t been on the online site for a while and therefore I had missed that after a long gap a Classic Visual Basic column had returned written
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:30 PM

Visual Basic vs C# LINQ syntax

LINQ has two syntaxes – Lamda syntax and Comprehension syntax. Each has their uses and you can happily mix them. Lamda syntax is stuff like: var longWords = words.Where( w => w.length > 10); Dim longWords = words.Where(Function(w) w.length >
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
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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