A group blog from members of the VB team
March 14, 2007Mar 14, 200703/14/07Coding a Euchre Game, Part 3: Timers
In my previous posts regarding the Euchre game creation, I discussed some issues with creating a complex form and maintaining images to be shown on it. In this posting, I’m going to start covering some of the more esoteric controls.
March 13, 2007Mar 13, 200703/13/07Coding a Euchre Game, Part 2: Show me the cards!
In my previous post, I discussed using control-drag to speed up the design of a form which uses lots of similar controls. In this post, I’m going to discuss displaying images on those controls.
March 12, 2007Mar 12, 200703/12/07Back when I first started writing code, I got interested in game writing, and was fairly sure I could write out text-based games as well as the other offerings one could find on mainframes and, later, on the Commodores/TRS/Apples of the day.
March 8, 2007Mar 8, 200703/8/07Greetings, all!
I’m Matt Gertz, the Dev Manager for Visual Basic team. I’ve been on the team for a bit over 12 years, via the Blackbird/Visual InterDev side of the product, and in that time have been a dev on various features (mostly IDE-related),
