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Introduction to (Live) Unit Testing in Visual Basic… [updated for VS 2017 Update 3 Preview 3]

May 21, 2017 May 21, 2017 05/21/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
...and Why My Grandma Invented the Concept! Meet late Grandma Grete Schindler. I'd like to introduce you to my grandma, because this post will be about the essence and purpose of unit testing in Visual Basic, and Granny Grete basically invented the concept of unit testing. Yes, she really did, I kid you not – she was a very wise woman...

Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
...letting your code do absolutely nothing! We’ve all been there, one way or the other. Either as users of an app or as the developer to whom users complained to: When a typical Win32 app is waiting for an operation to complete, we often get to see something like this: In discussions about how to get a handle on such scenarios there are all...

What's New in Visual Basic 2017

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
Visual Studio 2017 just shipped, and with it shipped a new version of Visual Basic. With the new language strategy of the .NET Languages, the focus is again on Visual Basic’s original virtue: Provide editor, debugging and refactoring tools as well as language feature to ease complex tasks and boost every VB’s developer productivity without...