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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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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
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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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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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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