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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Microsoft's Live Search API team have released samples in Java, PHP, C#, Python and Ruby, but no VB samples. Better not say the " N word ", even though that's the way it seems yet another team at Microsoft chooses to treat their supposedly most popular language base. The question remains...
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I really dislike VB's inline Function syntax... it's incredibly verbose. When they were looking at it, I suggested Func, but given that usage in the framework that would be confusing. (I hadn't seen the Func(Of T,...) delegates at that time ) I would still like something more succinct. I'm...
If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight doesn't allow that ;) To get the .wmv's,...
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Thanks to Paul Vick for pointing out the Lang.Net symposium talks are now on the web. I've only watched a few so far, but here's my thoughts/review of them Paul's talk on VB.Next A quick overview of one area VB will probably be heading is making the language more scriptable. This isn't...
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02-22-2008
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A couple of weeks ago a friend was chatting to me in IM and asked me about a problem he was having with generics constraints. I told him he was trying to solve the lack of an INumeric interface issue. Then last week I watched Brian Beckman go through the same thing with generics, again unable to use...
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Kathleen has posted about a real nasty bug in the VB 9 (VB 2008) compiler. And I mean nasty !! The compiler won't warn you, won't give an error of any sort.. it will just omit lines of code from your application ! Yep, it will compile as if nothing is wrong, yet it will remove your code !! If...
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I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005" stream of things. There was a Q&A session at...
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Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
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