{"id":1203,"date":"2009-10-17T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/10\/17\/im-a-vb-macario-f-pedraza\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:43:56","slug":"im-a-vb-macario-f-pedraza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/im-a-vb-macario-f-pedraza\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm A VB: Macario F. Pedraza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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·<\/span>        <\/span>How long have you been using VB?<\/p>\n

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Since 1993, starting with VB3, but used QuickBasic before that and started programming in BASIC in 1981 (yeah I know, I’m old)<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What industry do you work in?<\/p>\n

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Software Development<\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>How big is your development team?<\/p>\n

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8<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/p>\n

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Mostly infrastructure\/framework apps, anything that simplifies programming (I hate doing things twice)<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What’s the most interesting app you’ve ever built?<\/p>\n

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An O\/R mapper\/code generator using XML defined templates, also a BPM Workflow framework<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>Please tell us about an app that you’re working on at the moment.<\/p>\n

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In developing a BPM framework, I’ve created a data structure that I call a PropertyTree that is a kind of PropertyBag with integrated data validation and events that is used to support custom fields in data rows as well as cllient\/server comunication.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/p>\n

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SQL Server most commonly, although I’m hopping on the Silverlight, LINQ, .Net RIA Services bandwagon<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/p>\n

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Parameterized Properties, C# 3.0 doesn’t seem to have them<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/p>\n

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I like that it is a very high-level language that lets me express ideas in a very natural way without having to translate those ideas into funky punctuation marks like “other” languages (I’m looking at you C#)<\/p>\n

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For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/span><\/b>http:\/\/imavb.net<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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