Sampy's Blog

Fixed 3 bugs today, not bad. I spent most of the afternoon banging my head up against a build problem having to do with my Win Forms designer created resx files. If I can't get it going in the next hour or so, I'll probably just work with my team tomorrow Read More...

On the VB team, we don't checkin to our source control system (Source Depot or sd) ourselves like mere mortals, we use the automated checkin system called Gauntlet. Gauntlet runs as an .hta app that collects your unsubmitted changelist, asks for some Read More...

A while back when I was working on the publish property page, I need to unhook an object from it's event handlers. That object was declared with Dim WithEvents and the handlers were wired up with Handles clauses on the methods of the object. While I love Read More...

Today at 1pm Pacific time (4pm Eastern) check me out talking about deployment! MSDN Chats Main Page Direct Link to Chatroom I hope to see you there!! Read More...

VB Whidbey is getting some long overdue keywords: IsNot and Using being my personal favorites. However, there are some keywords that we don't have yet but I could see coming... Something - Basically this just means Not Nothing. All this really buys you Read More...

Hi. My name is Mike Sampson and I'm a developer here at Microsoft on the VB team and I work on deployment. Specifically, I work on Setup and Deployment projects (MSI's, Cab files, and MSMs) as well as the cool new web-ish ClickOnce deployment. In VB, Read More...