A group blog from members of the VB team
April 29, 2011Apr 29, 201104/29/11Hi, all!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then. Though I’ve been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off last summer to do some traveling and,
February 26, 2010Feb 26, 201002/26/10One of the really fun things about being associated with the Visual Basic team is getting to see all of the varied usages to which our customers put it. From enterprise software to games, our customer base covers a wide range.
November 16, 2009Nov 16, 200911/16/09This one’s going to be long, but for those of you who’ve felt the first 3 in this series were too easy I promise this one’s tougher J.
Let’s say you want to list all the customers from a table in a ComboBox,
November 12, 2009Nov 12, 200911/12/09What’s wrong with the following WPF code?
Class Window1
Sub OK_Click(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs) Handles OK.Click
MsgBox(“Button Clicked”)
End Sub
End Class
<Window x:Class=”Window1″
xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”
xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”
Title=”Window1″ Height=”300″ Width=”300″>
November 5, 2009Nov 5, 200911/5/09In yesterday’s post we saw that the use of the wrong comparison operator with Nothing in an If block can lead to surprising results. Let’s look at a slightly different case today:
Dim x As Integer = Nothing
November 3, 2009Nov 3, 200911/3/09Microsoft has this neat mailing list called “Spot the Bug” where developers can send interesting snippets of code that look correct but actually have subtle bugs in them. The puzzles are a lot of fun and I’ve always thought it’d be a fun thing to try here on the team blog.
October 7, 2009Oct 7, 200910/7/09In my last post, I talked about the hidden costs that can occur whenever you call out to methods, particularly in loops. In looking at my examples, reader KG2V commented that another thing that folks need to be aware of is avoiding the assumption that the world (or,
October 6, 2009Oct 6, 200910/6/09(Note: there was a grievous error in this post based on a bad assumption on my art regarding VB. Not feeling the need to hide my ignorance :-), I have instead made a number of edits in this post to bring it back to some semblance of reality.)
One thing that gets me annoyed with myself is realizing that the product or service I’ve just bought has some hidden costs that I didn’t anticipate.
August 5, 2009Aug 5, 200908/5/09In my previous post, we fixed up a C# GPS library to provide more support, and wrote all of the UI for a VB GPS application, all based on (but modified from) a Mobile GPS sample in the Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK.
August 4, 2009Aug 4, 200908/4/09The title of this blog post has sort of a triple meaning for me. First of all, I just got back from a long (and wonderful!) cruise in the Caribbean, followed by a stop at Disney World. And of course, if you go to Disney World with kids,
