A group blog from members of the VB team
December 9, 2008Dec 9, 200812/9/08The 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.
October 22, 2008Oct 22, 200810/22/08Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we have Bill Horst, a tester on the VB Team. You might know Bill from his awesome series of blog posts on Converting SQL to LINQ.
May 7, 2008May 7, 200805/7/08This post assumes you’ve read my previous Converting SQL to LINQ posts.
I haven’t had much in the way of specific requests for more LINQ posts, so I’d still welcome any suggestions that people want to offer. I did get one request about how to mimic the LIKE keyword functionality in VB LINQ.
March 24, 2008Mar 24, 200803/24/08I recently ran into an interesting threading problem that I wanted to share, so that perhaps I can save some people from the same confusion I had.
I started with a C# application someone else had written. I’ll call it “DeltaEngine”
February 12, 2008Feb 12, 200802/12/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series. It makes the same assumptions as Part 8, and I will pick up where I left off, covering Full Outer Join. Once again, I recognize this isn’t an ideal situation,
January 31, 2008Jan 31, 200801/31/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series.
After my post on joins, I’ve had some questions about outer joins. As you can see in part 6, VB9 doesn’t have smooth support for Left or Right join.
January 8, 2008Jan 8, 200801/8/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 31, 2007Dec 31, 200712/31/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 18, 2007Dec 18, 200712/18/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 12, 2007Dec 12, 200712/12/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
This post will discuss scalar and aggregate functions.
