{"id":1523,"date":"2009-10-10T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/10\/10\/im-a-vb-ambarish-joglekar\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:46:29","slug":"im-a-vb-ambarish-joglekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/im-a-vb-ambarish-joglekar\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m A VB: Ambarish Joglekar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">How long have you been using VB?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>6 Years<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What industry do you work in?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Software Consulting.IT<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">How big is your development team?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>10<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>Web Portals, B2B Apps As a consultant, I get called upon to build a pretty broad variety of things.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What&rsquo;s the most interesting app you&rsquo;ve ever built?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>I&#8217;m not one to pick favorites, since each has had its own set of challenges, but the VB\/XNA stuff I&#8217;ve been doing has been a lot of fun. If I had to pick one, it would be my pet RPG project: Heroic Adventure! that I&#8217;ve been working on for a few years now. I started it in VB.NET 2003 and it&rsquo;s still going strong.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Please tell us about an app that you&rsquo;re working on at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>I&#8217;m building a MVC application that does reporting with some 3rd party components and we&#8217;re also using quite a bit of JQuery. It&#8217;s proven to be an interesting challenge getting all the pieces working together properly.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>SQL Server, Oracle and CMS<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span>Fast, easy to write and read.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&middot;<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\">simple, easy to understand and write too. english is the only requirement \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/font><\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/imavb.net\/\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/imavb.net<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">. <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">Are you a VB, too? Submit your story <\/font><\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=dRItygroketO20qGr5fcPA_3d_3d\"><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">here<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span><font face=\"Calibri\">!<\/font><\/span><\/b><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How long have you been using VB? 6 Years &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What industry do you work in? Software Consulting.IT &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How big is your development team? 10 &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of apps do you most commonly build? Web Portals, B2B Apps As a consultant, I get called upon to build a pretty broad variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,195],"tags":[73,119],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-im-a-vb","category-visual-basic","tag-im-a-vb","tag-pages"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How long have you been using VB? 6 Years &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What industry do you work in? Software Consulting.IT &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How big is your development team? 10 &nbsp; &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of apps do you most commonly build? 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