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Sep 25, 2009
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Testing Events for Nothing/Null (Doug Rothaus)

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While helping some Windows API folks with some sample code this week, I stumbled upon...uh...I mean “carefully researched” an issue that you might find handy.You may be aware that the RaiseEvent statement automatically checks to verify if an event handler exists before raising the event. If the event is Nothing, then there’s no ev...

Sep 4, 2009
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Properties vs Fields – Why Does it Matter? (Jonathan Aneja)

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The other day I got an email from a developer asking an interesting question about VB10’s Auto-implemented Properties feature. “I am, however, somewhat confused regarding the properties feature you mentioned - i.e. turning 11 lines of get/set/backing variable into one line. Wouldn't this be exactly the same as the existing functionality of cre...

Aug 5, 2009
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It’s a Small World, After All, part 2 – VB, C#, and GPS (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

In my previous post, we fixed up a C# GPS library to provide more support, and wrote all of the UI for a VB GPS application, all based on (but modified from) a Mobile GPS sample in the Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK.  In this post, we’ll finish up the app by enabling a bunch of cool functionality not exposed in the original sample.The C# sample ...

Aug 4, 2009
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It’s a Small World, After All, part 1 – VB, C#, and GPS (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

The title of this blog post has sort of a triple meaning for me.  First of all, I just got back from a long (and wonderful!) cruise in the Caribbean, followed by a stop at Disney World.  And of course, if you go to Disney World with kids, it’s the law that you have to go through the “It’s a Small World” ride, there...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Juan Rafael

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  Website: http://juanrafael.wordpress.com ·        How long have you been using VB?7 years (7 años) ·        What industry do you work in?Software Company - ISV (Compañia de Software – ISV) ·&n...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Hassan SadeghiOrang

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 ·        How long have you been using VB?7 years ·        What industry do you work in?Software Development ·        How big is your development team?5 ·    &nbs...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Anup Warade

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·        How long have you been using VB?7 years ·        What industry do you work in?IT ·        How big is your development team?5 ·        What...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Mehmet Şahin

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Blog: http://mehsah.spaces.live.com/  ·        How long have you been using VB?20 Years ·        What industry do you work in?Food For other interviews in this series, please visit http://imavb.net.  Are you a VB, too? Submit your story...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Russ Yeagley

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Website: www.EagleSecureSolutions.com ·        How long have you been using VB?I'm one of the extremely lucky developers who did beta work for Microsoft on Project Thunder - Visual Basic 1.0. While attending a symposium in Chicago, Tom Button (from Microsoft at the time) and I were talking about w...

Jul 11, 2009
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I'm A VB: Manoj Kumar

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 ·        How long have you been using VB?2002 - VB 6.0.  2004 - VB.NET ·        What industry do you work in?Environmental Services - MIS Department ·        How big is your development te...