A group blog from members of the VB team
September 6, 2007Sep 6, 200709/6/07Who says you can’t obfuscate VB code?
For fun, I tried writing some VB code which was shaped in the letters ‘vb’ (that’s right, the code itself forms the shape of the letters), where the ‘v’ and the ‘b’ are formed from the Visual Studio inifinity logo.
July 29, 2007Jul 29, 200707/29/07I posted a couple more videos on Channel9 that you’ll definitely want to check out! Thanks again to Kathleen for helping with the production.
The first one Kit George walks us through some of his favorite VB9 language features that enable LINQ:
In this in interview Kit George,
July 15, 2007Jul 15, 200707/15/07On Friday, Chris Smith and I (Chris is a test engineer on the VB Team) attended an event called ‘Sons and Daughters’ day. The day consisted of 2 sessions (20-25 kids in each) where kids aged 6-13 were run through a class of writing an app in VB (20-25 kids in each).
July 11, 2007Jul 11, 200707/11/07This example is intended as a ‘primer’ for following recipes (so we don’t repeat the same instructions multiple times). This recipe takes you through everything you need, and assumes only that you’ve installed Visual Studio (and in so doing, you’ve installed SQLExpress).
July 3, 2007Jul 3, 200707/3/07Ingredients:
– Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and WinForms
Instructions:
Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Create a new Windows Forms Application project
From the toolbox, drag a CheckedListBox to the main form,
June 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07Ingredients:
– Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
– An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String)
– A definition for ‘Complex Type’. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having more than 10 public methods,
June 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07Ingredients:
– Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
– Some text you want to search
Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms
Instructions:
– Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’
June 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07Folks, we’re gonna start a ‘cookbook’ of LINQ entries, which we’ll be building over time. This is just meant to be a series of solutions to specific scenarios, that the team comes across when writing code and using queries. I can’t think of a better way to communicate everything you might use LINQ for!
November 22, 2006Nov 22, 200611/22/06OK, 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’
October 17, 2006Oct 17, 200610/17/06All, I recently went on a trip to 3 Asian countries, and thought I would share the notes.
Here’s my summary of the recent trip a colleague and I made to Asia. The trip was cut short due to a typhoon in Manila,
