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Making PInvoke Easy
14 March 08 09:56 AM

Jared here again. I very excited to announce we recently released a tool I've been working on to MSDN that will greatly help with using PInvoke in managed code. The tool is called the "PInvoke Interop Assistant" and is included as part of a MSDN article Read More...

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Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Jared Parsons, Did you know?, PInvoke

Customizing Displays in the Debugger for System Types
28 September 07 04:04 PM

We've heard feedback from several customers regarding the way certain types are displayed in the Debugger. Many of the displays exist to maintain the user experience between versions of Visual Studio. We constantly evaluate if this is the correct choice Read More...

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Filed under: IDE, Jared Parsons, VB2008, Debugger

Closures in VB Part 5: Looping
26 July 07 09:42 AM

For previous articles in the series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Part 3: Scope Part 4: Variable Lifetime Once again sorry for the long delay between posts. Looping structures can cause unintended consequences when used with Lambda Read More...

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Filed under: Orcas, Jared Parsons

Closures in VB Part 4: Variable Lifetime
15 June 07 02:04 PM

For previous articles in this series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Part 3: Scope Sorry for the long delay between posts here. We're getting Orcas out the door and getting this series completed takes a back seat to shipping. Originally Read More...

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Filed under: Orcas, Jared Parsons

Closures in VB Part 3: Scope
25 May 07 02:03 PM

Jared here again. For previous articles in this series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Thus far in the series we've only lifted variables that are declared in the same block/scope. What happens if we lift variables in different scope? Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons

Closures in VB Part 2: Method Calls
03 May 07 04:22 PM

For previous articles in this series, please see Part 1 - The basics Jared here again. This part of the series will focus on how method calls are handled in closures. As stated in the previous article, the purpose of closures is to allow all operations Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons

Closures in VB: Part 1
02 May 07 08:53 PM

My name is Jared Parsons and I am a developer on the VB Compiler and Debugger. One of the features I implemented for VB 9.0 is lexical closure support. This a great addition to the VB language and I wanted to do a series of blog posts to describe this Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons