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September 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:54 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
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:09 PM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 announced – and the return of UML

Blimey – and I am only just getting my head round Visual Studio 2008 :-) These are exciting times. You can find all the public details over on msdn . There is also a week of videos appearing on channel9 . Nearly forgot, we are having another stab at decent
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Monday, September 29, 2008 3:35 PM

A very good showing of VB developers

As folks should know, as of July I stopped doing any demos in C# (pretty much) and switched to Visual Basic .NET – the simple reason being I know at every event we attend we have a large contingent of VB developers that we make sit through C# demo after
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:52 AM

A few rough edges in our shiny new Data stack

We have a rather impressive set of new technologies for working with data – LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, Data Services, ASP.NET Dynamic Data etc. What I am finding is… they don’t all get on with each other as well as you might have thought. My
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:03 PM

Another new find for me – MyVBProf.com

Just stumbled across this great resource of very nicely done screencasts on developing with Visual Basic 2008. Each topic area is split into a number of 10minute screencasts which are very professionally done. Great work by Bill Burrows who is a faculty
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:04 PM

Is this a good VB ASP.NET 3.5 book – or not?

I am confused on this one. I have had people tell me it is excellent and others tell me it is just “ok” – and can’t see a pattern. Anyone given it a good going over?
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:12 AM

New find – Visual Basic 2005 development blog

It is 12am and I should be sleeping but I just stumbled across this blog site by Arsalan Tamiz focusing on VB 2005 development http://arsalantamiz.blogspot.com/ . It appears to have been only going a few months but he has been very busy! Plenty for me
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