.NET, Visual BasicBy 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...
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.NET programming downloads, C#, Visual BasicMicrosoft 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...
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C#, Visual Basic, VS 2002/2003 and .NET 1.0/1.1, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0, WinFormsThis 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. ...
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Visual Basic, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0, WinForms
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...
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Architecture and the SDLC, C#, Visual Basic, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0(Editor's note: This is the first blog post by Christopher Yager, who will be writing on the .NET Developments blog from time to time. Yager is chief software architect at GLD Solutions Inc. and is currently using .NET...
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Visual Basic, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5, WinForms
(Editor's note: This is the first blog post by Chris Madsen, who will be writing on the .NET Developments blog from time to time. Madsen is a consultant who programs in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005. Her first few posts will cover the ups and downs of migrating from...
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Dynamic Languages, Visual BasicAs the Microsoft Lang.NET Symposium went into Day 2, the parade of languages and language combos continued. First out of the blocks was Eric Meijer with a discussion of Volta. Volta uses a shared programming model to allow...
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Visual Basic, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5The Visual Basic 2008 language specification has been posted. It's not 100% totally officially ready, as it needs some copy edits, but it is available for download
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Dynamic Languages, Visual BasicVB team members Paul Vick and Paul Yuknewicz appeared on a Scott Hanselman podcast to talk about directions for Visual Basic. They talked about the popularity of the language, which still surpasses all others in Microsoft’s yearly developer survey.
Vick and Yuknewicz talked about
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C#, Visual BasicThere may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there are free books -- and this one is definitely worth a look. SubMain, which makes refactoring and code documentation products for .NET Framework applications, is hosting on its site a free book by Steven Sartain.
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