OK, so when you're playing around with LinQ and all it's various additional bits, you really do get to have a bit of fun. I've made this available simply because i enjoyed doing it. The basic idea is to time and then compare the duration of various 'IsPrime' implementations. The 'client' simply allows you to run various IsPrime implementations. The...
by Kathleen McGrath Have you ever wished that you could have someone show you how to accomplish a programming task instead of having to read through the steps on how to perform the task? Or maybe you just need a little more clarification about where a particular option is located. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, so imagine what a vide...
Hey folks, my name's Kit George and I've joined the VB team from the CLR. VB is after all, the best language, so of course, it makes sense to work directly on it!Like all languages, VB has it's little 'oddities', so i thought i would start a series to present a few of these. These are little (and perhaps large) curious VB things that you may or may...
I'm *really* excited to be at the PDC this year. I've been to a few PDCs in the past and I think that this one is going to be the best, by far. In addition to the great demos, panels, and meet the team events, there will be a lot of buzz and discussion about the future of the language, platform, and tools. For those of you who won't be able to make...
(posted by Irene Fan) Hi, I'm Irene and I'm an Exploring Microsoft intern in the Visual Basic group this summer along with Greg, Seth, and Emily. As VB Explorers, we spend eight weeks here in Redmond designing and coding an application to learn about the product development process firsthand; at the same time, we experience corporate life at Micro...
I've just finished scheduling the Visual Basic .NET chats for August (and two Thrursdays chats for Visual Basic 2005), and they are now live on the MSDN chat site. ADO.NET with Visual Basic .NETAugust 3, 2004, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. PST (20:00 - 21:00 GMT)Hosts: David Sceppa, Steve Stein, and Steve Lasker Developing Windows Forms Applications with Visua...
For the past year, I've been organizing the Visual Basic chats that appear at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/. For the most part, these chats focused on answering your questions about Visual Basic.Naturally, now that the Beta 1 for Visual Basic 2005 is available, I wanted to schedule some chats to answer your Beta questions. But after discussing t...
Posted by Alexandre Moura, Visual Basic Compiler QAThis was my third day at TechEd - I think that finally I'm developing presentation capabilities - this is my first time at a conference, and I must admit I was a bit unsure about what kind of questions I'd be getting at the booths - Turns out I do know enough to man a booth, which wa...
Posted By: David Guyer, Visual Basic TestingToday I got to meet a lot more people who are similarly enthusiastic about the features I mentioned yesterday. Right now I'm sitting in the Sails pavillion where my day began enjoying the breeze and quiet evening.The issue that came up twice today that I'd like to publicly state again VISUAL BASIC IS...
Posted By: David Guyer, Visual Basic Test TeamToday was my first day working the pavillion at Tech-Ed.I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people with a lot of interesting backgrounds and experiences.Here is a list of some of the features of VS 2005 that were drew the most interest or excitement: My. Edit and Continue (even though En...
