VB On Silverlight

re: VB On Silverlight

Jason@TeacherTube — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:21:19 GMT

Joe,

I am CEO of TeacherTube. We are seriously considering transitioning from Flash 9 to Silverlight. Regarding VB, what issues should we look to overcome?

Jason@TeacherTube.com

Visual Basic running on a Mac! Seriously.

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:13:42 GMT

Have you ever dreamed of writing Visual Basic code that ran cross-platform AND cross-browser? Well wake

re: VB On Silverlight

Bill — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:55:33 GMT

IIF should be a compiler operation not a runtime function ;)

re: VB On Silverlight

rogerj — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:09:50 GMT

This (and to some extent Paul Vick's post) answers the question I asked Amanda earlier today.

--rj

re: VB On Silverlight

VBTeam — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:10:07 GMT

Bill,

I've got some great news for you!

We are doing what you ask as part of Orcas.

We've added 2 new "if" operators (we chose to use "if" instead of "iif" in order to preserve backwards compatibility for pre-orcas projects), that offer short circuiting equivalents of iif.

There syntax is:

if(<expression>, <expression>, <expression>)

and

if(expr1, expr2)

The first operator is equivalent to iif in VB 8.

The second operator is a special case for:

if(expr1 is not nothing, expr1, expr2)

(however "expr1" is only ever evaluated once)

Unlike IIF, however, if is short circuiting. This means it will only ever execute the third operand if the condition parameter returns false.

Support for "if" was not included in Beta 1 as it was not scheduled to be completed before the Beta 1 cutoff time. It should, however, be present in the Orcas Beta 2 release.

-Scott Wisniewski

re: VB On Silverlight

Mike McIntyre MVP — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:30:25 GMT

This is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just when you think you have it figured out, the MIX it up again

Wooley's Wonderings — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:31:41 GMT

I was starting to think I had a good grasp on the technologies Microsoft was bringing out with Orcas,...

re: VB On Silverlight

Anthony D. Green, MCPD — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:37:20 GMT

AWESOME.

I can't say just yet what from the Vbr is missing but I think we can live without any redundant functionality. I know there are some subtle differences that I should be refreshed on but why Now rather than Date.Now, Instr, Mid, Len, UCase rather than the String class methods, and UBound and LBound rather than the array class methods. Shouldn't LBound always be 0? Doesn't Length - 1 give a bounds checking JIT optimization?

re: VB On Silverlight

Tomohiro Kinugawa — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:44:10 GMT

Oh, It's interesting.

"IIF" is in evolution silently.

re: VB On Silverlight

Ben — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:51:51 GMT

I just tried the Blend 2 May Preview and didn't need to do any .config file hackery to get Orcas interoperability

Silverlight上（DLR上）のVBについてサポート・非サポートとなるテクノロジが公開されています。

ひろえむの日々是勉強 — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:38:06 GMT

Silverlight上（DLR上）のVBについてサポート・非サポートとなるテクノロジが公開されています。

re: VB On Silverlight

Mike Galos — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:45:35 GMT

Wow! That's just scary level powerful and easy.

Adam Rauch and Nevet Basker should be pleased to see where their product has gone!

"Real Apps, Real Fast" taken forward instead of just sideways.

Silverlight surfing

Joben.Rara.blogs(".NET") — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:10:12 GMT

Pardon the silver surfer tagline, I just watched the FF trailer, and as Johnny would say "That is

re: VB On Silverlight

Stefan Wenig — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:03:20 GMT

In some other blog I read that while LINQ 2 XML is not supported in silverlight 1.1 _alpha_, you'd still be looking into delivering it with 1.1 release. Who's right?

re: VB On Silverlight

Jero — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:47:19 GMT

Great!!

I Hope to probe it soon.

Building Orcas Projects with Expression Blend 2

TestDriven.NET by Jamie Cansdale — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:46:36 GMT

Joe & The VB Team has a tip for building Orcas projects with Expression Blend 2 . This trick allows

re: VB On Silverlight

Stefan Wenig — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:32:53 GMT

OK, i found the blog i was referring to in my previous comment:

http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/04/30/live-from-mix07-silverlight-and-xml.aspx

this seems to rule out LINQ2XML only for 1.1 alpha.

infoq has already reported that LINQ2XML was cancelled for silverlight 1.1, so you should probably make that clear.

re: VB On Silverlight

George — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:41:45 GMT

Does Silverlight run on Internet Explorer of a PDA running CE.Net 4.2 or CE.Net 5.0 ?

re: VB On Silverlight

George — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:41:53 GMT

Does Silverlight run on Internet Explorer of a PDA running CE.Net 4.2 or CE.Net 5.0 ?

re: VB On Silverlight

George Birbilis — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:33:04 GMT

What happens if people type iif instead of if or vice-versa by accident? Also IntelliSense autocomplete might mess up with their typing without them noticing. Should have some way to minimize typos there

Just when you think you have it figured out, the MIX it up again

Wooley's LINQ Wonderings — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:45:06 GMT

I was starting to think I had a good grasp on the technologies Microsoft was bringing out with Orcas,

re: VB On Silverlight

Fargii — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:45:58 GMT

Like the previous comment, I am beginning to give up on my efforts to keep up to date with products being churned out by Microsoft. You don't get a full grasp of one product or tool before a new one or version is released. I know there is competition from other platforms but PLEASE slow down.

re: VB On Silverlight

SpeedySathyRaj — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:46:29 GMT

Wow!

it's amazing to work with the silver light environment ,i am a teacher in csc computer education it's interesting to teach silver light tools

re: VB On Silverlight

Jarek — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:34:01 GMT

Ktoś tu coś napisał po japońsku. Czy może ktoś przetłumaczyć? To na pewno bardzo ważne.

Silverlight: Where to start?

Ezequiel Jadib — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:54:07 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser , cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation

re: VB On Silverlight

giorgio — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:43:24 GMT

from server side can I call com object such adodb??

Silverlight in the lime light

Coding4Fun — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:58:50 GMT

I've kept away from Silverlight for a bit since it was a bit too new for me. Now that I've had more time

re: VB On Silverlight

Ed — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:50:42 GMT

You're right about one thing, there are so many products coming out I can't keep up. Silverlight 1.1? I didn't even think 1.0 was really here yet!

Well I applaud this effort, I think having cross platform VB is awesome! I have really been thinking that MS was giving up on VB. Every job posting you see these days is for C#. Maybe there is a future for VB here.

Anyway, about the language... I cannot emphasize enough that using IIF in code is BAD practice. Always has been. Yeah I know there is the similar construct in C like languages, but I think it is bad there too. Using good old IF-Then-Else promotes readability, efficiency, and code-correctness. I wouldn't waste the space on it. And I won't use it, nor accept any developers turning in code with it.

viva VB!!!

Silverlight Examples

Michael's Blog — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:13:59 GMT

During the weekend I spent some minutes to collect some of the greatest Silverlight examples. Most of

TechReady in Seattle- Amanda Silver Rocks the house!

Ozzie Rules Blogging — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:59:52 GMT

Been in Seattle all week at an internal conference called "TechReady" watching the latest and greatest

TechReady in Seattle- Amanda Silver Rocks the house!

Noticias externas — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:20:15 GMT

Been in Seattle all week at an internal conference called "TechReady" watching the latest and

re: VB On Silverlight

Charles W. Young — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:49:56 GMT

"my interest was definitely peaked" should read "my interest was definitely piqued"