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Saturday, March 29, 2008

TechEd BOF Session: Strategies for Moving Your Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 3/29/2008 3:02:00 AM

If you're not familiar with the concept, a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion lead by a moderator who is not a Microsoft employee. The sessions are not presentations, there are no projectors. Unlike the Keynotes and Breakout sessions which are mostly one to many communication, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are many to many communication and don't necessarily focus on Microsoft products or technology. They are about people talking with people - connecting, sharing ... [ read more ]

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Visual Studio 2008 to be Released on November 15th?

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 11/11/2007 4:37:00 PM

Don Box hints that it may be so. http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2007/11/10/49001.aspx 1 comment(s)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 10/16/2007 1:56:00 AM

If you're interested in seeing some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 in action, you should check out the series of "How Do I" videos at http://www.visualstudio2008beta.com/videos.htm . There are 13 up there now and more will be added every week. If you want to play along, head on over to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx and download a copy of Beta 2 for yourself. 3 comment(s)

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Using a Splash Screen from an External Assembly in Visual Basic 2005

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 8/18/2007 9:08:00 PM

This issue came up on one of email lists I'm involved in and I though the solution was worth sharing. The developer wanted to know how to use a splash screen from an external assembly (i.e. a DLL) in a Visual Basic 2005 Windows application. If you look at the Applications tab of the project properties, there is dropdown to pick the splash screen but it will only show forms in the current project. To use a splash screen from an external assembly cl ... [ read more ]

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Application Settings Made Easy with My and Visual Basic 2005

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 1/28/2007 8:56:20 AM

Most applications require some configuration settings that could change over time. Classic examples would be a connection string to a database, the URL to your company web site, or the path to a log file. These settings could be stored in the application itself but this would mean that, should the setting change, the application would have to be modified, recompiled, and redeployed. A better approach would be to store the values of these settings in some external data store; traditionally th ... [ read more ]

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Some Specifics on Generics

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 1/3/2007 9:07:56 AM

Generics are the most significant language addition to .NET 2.0. They allow for code re-use in ways not previously available and make it much easier to write type-safe, better performing code. That is, they help you turn runtime exceptions into compile-time errors while making your application run faster. Sound good? What’s the Problem? The classic example used to demonstrate the problem Generics solve is the general purpose collection. In .NET 1.1 collection classes like the ArrayList a ... [ read more ]

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Keep Client Applications Responsive with the BackgroundWorker

by windsor via Rob Windsor on 11/9/2006 9:58:00 AM

Many applications need to perform some kind of long-running task like downloading a file, performing a complex calculation, or retrieving data from a database. Executing these tasks can make your application become unresponsive and end up making your users anxious. Take too long performing the task and the user will be looking for the Task Manager to kill your application. The solution to this problem is to execute the long-running task on a second (or background) thread. This allows the user ... [ read more ]

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