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December 2009 - Visual Basic Blog

There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Euchre! (Matt Gertz)

December 18, 2009 Dec 18, 2009 12/18/09
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
“Oh, no!”  I hear you cry, “not another blog about Euchre!”Well, I do like the game, to be sure.  But, more importantly, the Euchre scenario enables me to try out any new technologies on a reasonably complex problem (using Visual Basic, of course).  It’s my way of checking out our product to make ...

Hidden Gems in VB2010 – Serializing Objects that Raise Events (Jonathan Aneja)

December 14, 2009 Dec 14, 2009 12/14/09
VBTeam
By now you've likely heard about the major new features coming in VB 2010, but there's also a number of smaller additions in the language and IDE that might not be as readily noticeable.  "Hidden Gems" will be a multi-part series where we'll explore some of these smaller enhancements.  First up - serialization! Let’s say ...