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December 2008 - Posts

Friday, December 19, 2008 9:39 AM

The perfect Christmas present for your kids? A new release of Small Basic

I have previously blogged on Small Basic and only this week snuck it into a session I was doing on Parallel Programming (It is the time of year when you can get away with that sort of stuff!). This is a great way for anyone to learn how to program - my
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:12 AM

Tracking down a bug in VB6 that only shows in the compiled EXE and not from inside the IDE - Use OutputDebugString

Many years ago I knew about this technique and recommended it to many folks - but it is now buried in my brain beneath layer upon layer of .NET stuff. Which is why it is great that Karl has his Classic VB column up and running again in Visual Studio Magazine.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:00 AM

Anybody for some free (and clever!) Visual Basic 2008 training?

In the UK we are working with InnerWorkings to create a great offer of training to UK developers. We still have some stuff to sort out but I am hopeful that we will be able to share the details of this very early in 2009. In my previous depth role we
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:04 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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Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:02 PM

Co-Evolution for VB.NET and C# - and a new article on language futures in VS2010

The following is snipped from an article I had commissioned on language futures . The article is a good summary of what to expect in Visual Studio 2010. Enjoy. "Visual Basic .NET and C# are both built on top of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which
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