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Get the Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Evaluation Kit and start developing applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 before the official release of Visual Studio 2005. This kit includes developer tools and technical resources, including Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.
Whether you are a Palm OS developer or new to mobile development, we've got lots of resources to get you started, including whitepapers, tools, downloads, and more.
Well, I received a copy of the new Macromedia Flash 8 and had some fun playing around with some new features and for the sake of this blog, those features that concern interaction with .NET (sample code provided in VB.NET). A couple of years ago, before the world had crushed my spirit, I wrote this little FAQ titled 'Communicating between Macromedia Flash and VB' @ VBcity and until Flash 7, those elements held true - apart from the mildly cool XML class in ActionScript 1.0 Library that ca ... [ read more ]
There are two VB.NET e-Books available for free on Microsoft web site - I'm sure this was already blogged about but these books are a great help for developers learning VB.NET and those moving from VB6.0, so here we go: Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Free, PDF) Complete guide to upgrading VB6 applications to VB.NET - VB6 and VB.NET differences, upgrading options, COM Interop, error handling, data access and more. Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Dev ... [ read more ]
I think Rico ’s spot on when he says that the real way you win the performance war is 5% at a time . Actually, I think he’s been overly optimistic — a lot of the time, it seems like you win the performance war 1% at a time. It’s much more like trench warfare than blitzkreig. There’s also a larger idea at work here. Rico’s point is that in a mature product, you shouldn’t be able to come up with a huge performance win in most cases because, if you c ... [ read more ]
While working on a side project, I decided to use VS2K5 and SQL2K5.  One of the things I needed to do was take some external data and import it into the database in a normalized manner.  I also needed to insert into some additional tables the newly (automatically) created id to link some data.  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (and Microsoft SQL 2005 Express Edition) supports a new TSQL keyword called OUTPUT.  Here's basically what it looks like: INSERT INTO tablename (column1, c ... [ read more ]
Neil Enns of the MSBuild team has released the first of a series of posts about how MSBuild works within Visual Studio, how VS projects are used by MSBuild and basically everything you'd want to know about how the two systems interact. You can check out all the entries here , in order from most recent to oldest, as they are posted. Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: .NET  |  Visual Basic  |  Visual C#


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