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October 2008 - Posts

Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:09 PM

LiveRun - a VS plugin to see the output of your program immediately

Say you're demonstrating a compiler at a conference. What's the best way to do it? Should you just type in code in the code window? Doing this, you're relying on the audience's imagination -- that they form a mental picture of how the program will behave.
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Monday, October 06, 2008 3:25 AM

Reflection on COM objects

I'd like to own a "Gestalt Camera". When you photograph an object it wouldn't just save a flat 2-dimensional projection of the object onto an SD card; instead it'd record the "gestalt", an understanding of the whole object and its complete web of relations.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:22 PM

Co- and contra-variance: how do I convert a List(Of Apple) into a List(Of Fruit)?

This is the first in a series of posts exploring how we might implement generic co- and contra-variance in a hypothetical future version of VB. This is not a promise about the next version of VB; it's just one possible proposal, written up here to get
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:08 PM

Hello!

Hello! I'm starting this blog as a way to communicate with VB users -- to hear what you want, to answer what questions I can, and to share my ideas about things the language could include in the future. I've recently become the Visual Basic specification
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