{"id":2063,"date":"2009-07-03T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/07\/03\/im-a-vb-soumya-sengupta\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:50:37","slug":"im-a-vb-soumya-sengupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/im-a-vb-soumya-sengupta\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm A VB: Soumya Sengupta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>How long have you been using VB?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

11 years<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What industry do you work in?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

HR\/Financial software development.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>How big is your development team?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

50<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Windows desktop\/distributed applications in an n-tier model with various back-end platforms.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What\u2019s the most interesting app you\u2019ve ever built?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It’s hard to single out the ONE application that was the most interesting. I have had interesting chunks of work over several applications over the years.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>Please tell us about an app that you\u2019re working on at the moment.<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I’m currently working on a complete warehouse management system, integrated with a parallel financial system. This project has been a cool learning experience because it is part of a migration from legacy HP3000-VB6 systems to VB.NET-SQL systems. I learned a lot about portability, scaling and COM Interoperability issues.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I use C# alongside of VB.net.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

VB.NET has all the classical OOP features, all of which I like. I would have loved it if it let us into some of the unmanaged world as well.. as well a little easier interfacing with the Windows API. But we have come a long way since VB 4.0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Its simplicity of syntax, not fussing about case, IntelliSense and a lot more. I also like that it is the language of choice for automating Office, and writing macros or add-ins.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/font><\/span><\/b>http:\/\/imavb.net<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>. <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Are you a VB, too? Submit your story <\/font><\/span><\/b>here<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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