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"Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)
03 April 08 11:50 AM
Supporting the “pajama programmer” Telecommuting is a great thing, and as the environmentally-conscious person that I strive to be, is something I wholeheartedly endorse when it can be done practically. My current job involves a lot of face-to-face meetings Read More...
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Milestone Quality & Dogfooding (Matt Gertz)
28 March 08 11:46 AM
After some hard but fruitful work, we’ve just finished our “milestone quality” (MQ) efforts, the goal of which was to get ourselves ready for developing the next versions of Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET. Although not specific to Visual Basic, Read More...
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Keeping Track of Books Using VB (Matt Gertz)
02 March 08 05:25 PM
I have a confession to make. I’m not a database guy. I’ve done a lot of varied coding over my career, but somehow I’ve never been directly involved in the guts of database coding. Whenever my code needed some sort of data-caching mechanism, I’ve tended Read More...
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Preparing for the Next Product Cycle (Matt Gertz)
30 January 08 08:20 PM
I once had to learn how to juggle in a very brief time in order to get an “A” in my high school computer science class. I am not making this up. The idea was that juggling, being a systemic process, was somehow analogous to writing programs and… well, Read More...
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Euchre Revisited: Fixing bugs and service releases (Matt Gertz)
11 December 07 04:42 PM
It’s really embarrassing when a bug gets out the door in a product. In particular, it’s hard for me to just sit and take it (however well deserved the criticism is) when a Microsoft product gets nailed in the press for a bad error. It’s much worse when Read More...
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One is the Loneliest Number (Matt Gertz)
13 November 07 10:09 AM
(This post assumes that you’ve read my previous post on Windows Media at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/10/30/let-the-music-play-matt-gertz.aspx – I will be modifying that code in this post.) After posting my media player blog sample a couple Read More...
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Let the Music Play! (Matt Gertz)
30 October 07 12:05 PM
Oh, boy. Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’ve transitioned to a new job within Visual Studio and have been getting my sea legs there. One of the job tasks is getting Visual Studio 2008 out to you folks, and while I’ve always been involved Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Matt Gertz Plays Cards with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)
23 October 07 03:09 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Matt Gertz , Development Manager on the Visual Basic team (well former Dev Manager, I'll let him explain <g>) where he shows off a Euchre game he's developed in Visual Basic that includes speech and sound. Read More...
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Endgame (Matt Gertz)
27 August 07 10:38 AM
Well, I’m back from vacation, pleasantly tired and yet relaxed at the same time. I’m busy trying to dig out of e-mail, things are going well, Beta2 has been in your hands for several weeks, and I’ve got lots of great ideas to try out on this site. (That’s Read More...
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Using the PrintForm component in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)
12 July 07 01:41 PM
(This is the fourth and final part of the Paint-by-Numbers series) Late last year, some clever guys on our Visual Basic team released the PrintForm component on the web. The idea behind the PrintForm component was to make printing and previewing your Read More...
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Loading and Saving Files in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)
10 July 07 01:13 PM
(This is part 3 of the Paint-by-Numbers series) There are four issues I want to deal with in this post: New, Open, Save (As), and Exit. I’ll be doing these in order, but all of them depend on knowing whether or not the application is dirty, so I’ll deal Read More...
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Implementing infinite undo/redo (Matt Gertz)
06 July 07 09:10 AM
(This is the second part in my series on creating a Paint-by-Numbers designer application.) This is the first application that I’ve built specifically for this blog, where I’m actually writing the code while I’m writing the blog. (For example, the Euchre Read More...
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Owner Draw in VB (Matt Gertz)
03 July 07 04:11 PM
I hate going so long without blogging, but it’s getting really busy around here as we get closer to the endgame for Visual Studio 2008. That, combined with “review time,” creates a bit of a problem for writing apps for the blog, and I wasn’t able to give Read More...
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Some thoughts on Edit and Continue and Design-Time Expression Evaluation (Matt Gertz)
12 June 07 11:07 AM
The story of Edit and Continue (which I’ll refer to as EnC) is a very long one. Having been a cornerstone of Visual Basic in the past, it had always been planned for us to ship an Edit and Continue experience with Visual Studio 2002. But we didn’t. Why? Read More...
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Dissecting Snippets (Matt Gertz)
04 June 07 03:03 PM
The snippet feature is one of the features that I’m fondest of in Visual Basic. It was another one of a handful of features that got discussed in a series of “What if…” meetings that Sam & I had during the “Whidbey” planning stages. As I recall, the Read More...
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