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December 2008 - Page 2 of 3 - Visual Basic Blog

Visual Studio: Snow Edition

December 19, 2008 Dec 19, 2008 12/19/08
VBTeam
There was lots of snow today. The Microsoft campus was almost empty as everyone worked from home. This picture shows what it's like to develop Visual Studio in the snow...Wallpaper sized: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1600x1200.jpg (378k)Widescreen: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1920x1200.jpg (445k...

Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables (Beth Massi)

December 18, 2008 Dec 18, 2008 12/18/08
Beth Massi
We we released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain, called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables. In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods as well as LINQ to DataSets. He compares the performance on indexed and non indexed ...

Using both VB.Net and C#? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 10, 2008 Dec 10, 2008 12/10/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
It's common today to switch back and forth between VB.Net and C# for different projects, jobs, teams, etc. VB MVP Kathleen Dollard and C# MVP Bill Wagner have gathered some tips to keep in mind when you make these transitions. They both write for Visual Studio Magazine, which is where these articles were released last week as part of the ...

M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)I have a slight problem with my cell phone.  It’s a smartphone; I love it, I use it all the time, and I don’t what I’d do without it, but I’ve been pretty aggravated with its support of Bluetooth.  It will fail to pair with the Sync system in the car at random times, which drives ...

Did you know? You can unwind the call stack from exceptions (Bill Horst)

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08
VBTeam
The ability to unwind the call stack from exceptions is one of the debugger features that was newly introduced in Visual Basic.NET 2005. When the debugger hits a first-chance exception, you can unwind the call stack in order to make code edits to fix the exception and continue debugging with the changes. The exception assistant UI will have an...