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6/8/2009 4:34:00 AM
We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition. At Renaissance, we try to allocate time for our developers to explore new tools and technologies that are not necessarily related to their current...( read more )
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4/6/2009 2:19:01 PM
UPDATE #2: Thanks to the comment by Tony, making 2 simple changes to the code eliminates the need for step (3) below. I’ve commented out the line Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") and changed Set olNS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace...( read more )
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2/15/2009 7:19:25 PM
Usually when we talk about comparing VB and C#, it is in the context of trying to show which language is better. However, here is a different approach – a pair of articles that explain nuances of one language for developers who normally program...( read more )
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8/28/2008 8:47:00 AM
This month we return to dig deep into code. The use of generics for .NET programming is a somewhat different, but extremely powerful and efficient, way of writing code. Pavel Yosifovich, CTO of Michlelet Hi-Tech, will get us all up to speed on using generics in our code. In the first session, he will explain the motivation for generics (in its various forms) and discuss the following:
The need for Generics
Generic types, interfaces, methods
Gene ... [ read more ]
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7/29/2008 9:06:00 AM
The big news in the software industry this past month has been the departure of Bill Gates from involvement in day to day activity at Microsoft. The following two videos, while not necessarily humorous, should still bring a smile to your face. They may serve as an inspiration as well. Looking Back, Moving Ahead - This 15-minute video is a very human look at the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft. Worth a Thousand Words ... [ read more ]
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6/26/2008 8:42:00 PM
SQL Server 2008 is almost here – the first release candidate was just released – do you know what it offers for application developers? Dubi Lebel, from Microsoft Israel, will fill us in on the more important benefits for developers, in this 2-session presentation. We will start with an overview of what is new in Manageability, Availability, Security and Performance and then drill down into specific new Database Features Introduced in SQL Server 2008 suc ... [ read more ]
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5/30/2008 1:22:00 AM
One of the most important new technologies for .NET, that we haven’t really covered in any of our IVBUG meetings, is WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows applications. It provides both developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences (and is the basis of Silverlight for Web applications) that incorporate UI, media, and documents. ... [ read more ]
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5/26/2008 8:21:00 PM
Check out this short scene from last week’s CSI New York !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s
And they say that VB gets no respect...
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4/15/2008 2:13:00 AM
I recently (OK, 10 days ago) returned from my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco, to speak at the main VSLive conference. My presentations this year are described here .
I'd like to share with you two observations / surprises from this conference:
(1) It is well known that I am a pretty big fan of DataSets - but I realize that it is not necessarily the most popular position to take. At VSLive, I gave 2 sessions on DataSets (Intermediate and Advanced). Image my surpri ... [ read more ]
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4/3/2008 2:15:00 AM
Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements.
This month’s meeting will be a joint m ... [ read more ]
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4/3/2008 1:49:00 AM
Well, spring is in the air, which for me means, among other things the renewal time for my Microsoft MVP award. I am proud to say that once again this year I have proven to be worthy of the award - thanks Microsoft !
Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the MVP Summit in Redmond later this month :-( But at least I had the chance to talk with some of the VB PMs at the VSLive Conference this week.
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3/2/2008 6:54:00 PM
Sharepoint is big . Very big. It is actually made of two different downloads (WSS & MOSS), a large set of reusable components and an SDK to accompany it. And Dan Amiga, VP of R&D for Semantinet, is just the one to explain to us how to take advantage of it. This talk is about understanding - from a developer's perspective - the architecture, internals and usages of Sharepoint. It's not just for the Sharepoint developer. It's also for developers th ... [ read more ]
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2/29/2008 8:59:00 PM
Earlier this month, at our monthly meeting, the Israel Visual Basic User Group celebrated its tenth (10th) birthday !
When I first started bouncing this idea off other VB developers and people at Microsoft Israel, I never could have imagined that ten years later we would still be going strong with monthly meetings and that many other User Groups would be formed and follow in our footsteps.
Thanks to all of you who attended, spoke, and helped out at these meetings. And thanks to ... [ read more ]
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10/8/2007 12:50:00 AM
I recently had a discussion with Lisa Feigenbaum of the VB dev team regarding performance improvements in the upcoming version of Visual Basic. She pointed me to the following 2 interesting resources: Cameron McColl, VB perf developer, talks about and demonstrates several of the VB perf improvements in Orcas: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=328382#328382
He also did a webcast, which you can view here :
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