A group blog from members of the VB team
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.
September 25, 2009Sep 25, 200909/25/09While helping some Windows API folks with some sample code this week, I stumbled upon…uh…I mean “carefully researched” an issue that you might find handy.
You may be aware that the RaiseEvent statement automatically checks to verify if an event handler exists before raising the event.
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,
July 10, 2009Jul 10, 200907/10/09About two years ago I posted some code that shows how to dynamically construct LINQ queries at runtime. On average there’s a couple questions per month about trying it in some edge case, and usually the support already exists within the API.
June 19, 2009Jun 19, 200906/19/09There are a lot of great Entity Framework samples on Code Gallery that you can now find available in Visual Basic .NET. This was recently announced on the ADO.NET team blog. Browse through the list below and start downloading!
ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples (Download)
ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples is a small Windows Forms program which contains several basic Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities queries against that NorthwindEF Entity Data Model (a modified version of Northwind).
May 21, 2009May 21, 200905/21/09In my post “M. G. Phone Home,” I discussed how to write a simple phone application for Windows Mobile, using Visual Basic, which accesses the Bluetooth service. What I didn’t discuss was how to deploy it to the phone via CAB.
May 4, 2009May 4, 200905/4/09Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor!. The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other editing functionality,
