.NET Programming Languages

Is there any real difference between VB.NET and C#?

By and large, it seems that Visual Basic no longer deserves the bad rap it's had for many years among more "serious" programmers. After the .NET Framework hit the scene in 2002 a sort of "grand...

Our readership survey is in!

The vast majority of SearchWinDevelopment.com readers are using modern tools, but a significant number of them are also interested in maintaining legacy applications, according to a readership survey conducted by the site. A preliminary look at the survey reveals that 87% are using Visual Studio...

Open source cataloger adds CodePlex to its knowledgebase

A company that helps developers find, track and manage open source components has partnered with Microsoft to include projects from CodePlex, Microsoft's open source portal. Black...

Clarifications on Microsoft’s Oslo, M

When I complained last month that we haven’t seen enough of Microsoft’s Oslo to know what it is, Microsoft responded. To recap: my gripe with Oslo — and specifically...

Oslo may not be vaporware, but is it significant?

This is the week of Oslo over at SearchWinDevelopment.com. On Monday, Microsoft released a new CTP of its Oslo data modeling project just as we were rolling out a tip on

MonoDevelop beta ups the ante for .NET development on Linux

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Mono, the Novell-backed project that's developing a port of .NET for Linux/Unix OSs. Last week saw the release of Moonlight 1.0, a Linux port of Silverlight...

VC++ gets update, VB6 gets heave

Microsoft development honcho Soma Somasegar reports that a Visual C++ 2008 Feature pack has shipped. In January the pack came out in beta. MFC components included in the pack allow developers to create applications with the...

VB6 Programmers – What happened to Printer.Print?

This post goes out to all you VB geeks that are wondering what happened to Printer.Print in VB.  This may be a dated topic but I have a feeling there are a few out there longing for those VB6 days when the printer was always sitting there loyal and waiting.  The VB6 programmer's best friend. ...

Hello F# world!

Are you ready for the Functional? Matthew Podwysocki has blogged about F#, a functional programming language. He provides, in fact, a nifty introduction. His initial

The elusive project properties

So I put together my setup project using the in-grown version of MSI (don’t get me started on how cumbersome it is to add files!) and then built it. Looked good.

But when I tested it, the suggested path was “C:\Program Files\Default...