I wasn't going to install VS 2008 SP1 Beta on my main development machine until I read a MSDN blog that said the final SP1 will install over the top of it. So I figure there's more good in getting feedback into the system now, than waiting. Installing it on my VPC's would provide limited...
It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and lets you do cool things like create games for Zunes, unless of course you want to do...
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I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes, so why not just map it to Int64 or UInt64 and for...
Well April first pranks have come and gone. Google, the fun company , had lots of hilarious April 1st pages and sub sites on their web: Virgle colony to Mars , Moon base work centre, new google anytime scheduling; all really well done :) Microsoft on the other hand seemed relatively sedate. I can imagine...
Patrick Meader writes on the divide between VB and C# inside Microsoft , and raises an interesting question. My response is probably going to be lengthy; more than I have time for at present. In the meanwhile, what do you think of the issues raised in Pat's editorial ?
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No, not the chocolate ones or the decorated chicken eggs... I mean software easter eggs. Like the ones in Excel where you could display an animated scroll of all the contributors. And they had similar in Outlook, and even in Visual Studio 6 ! Has all the fun (and chocolate and caramel centres) been taken...
"First time or casual programming" : that's apparently what VB is good for. If you want a great combination of power and productivity that's what C# is good for...... well, at least that's how Microsoft tells it to us . Microsoft, why do you treat VB so patronisingly ?
I got an email today asking about the use of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Zip assembly. Hi, my name is XXXXXX and I'm from XXXXX. I'm writing a custom .Vsi writer and I saw that in the Code Snippet Editor for VB 2008 (a great tool!) you made use of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Zip assembly. What...
It must be hot or I'm having one of those days. I was just testing some code and it seemed to do the unexpected. The problem was I had written : Public Overrides ReadOnly Property IsInvalid() As Boolean Get Me .handle = IntPtr.Zero End Get End Property This function was not only returning the wrong...
After my post about the first set of insults from the Windows Live team and the Search API samples, it was nice to see some VB samples released. Sadly though they were just the C# samples run through an automated tool. I mean look at this bullshit code from them : Select Case searchFlagsValue Case 0...
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