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An article clarifying the various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET
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Friday we posted the first 8 videos of the  Visual Basic Forms over Data "How-to" video series  on MSDN. If you don't have the Visual Basic Dev Center as your homepage you might have missed the headline. ;-) This how-to video series is dedicated to getting Visual Basic developers productive on areas of data-based Windows Application development. The series starts with the basics of database development with SQL-Server 2005 Express then walks through the details of conne ... [ read more ]
Many months ago, I discussed the fact that we were finally planning to come up with a true ternary conditional operator that would allow short-circuited conditional expressions. (Just as a quick recap: the current problem with the IIF function is that it evaluates all the arguments since it is just a regular method call. So "IIF(x Is Nothing, "Empty", x.Name)" will throw an exception if x is Nothing, because we still evaluate x.Name.) At the time, we were considering taking the IIF function ... [ read more ]
  Another of the new features that came with VB 2005 is the way you can now set ComboBoxes and TextBoxes to autocomplete based on user input.   You know the kind of thing: the user begins to type a string and the system suggests variations on the completed string.  The user then accepts the suggestion or continues typing until they find an acceptable suggestion or until they have entered the whole thing manually.   It's remarkably easy to implement.  Here's a ... [ read more ]
I escaped from Redmond this week to present at VSLive Orlando on LINQ in Visual Studio Orcas. As promised, please find the slides and demos included as an attachment below. As mentioned during the talk – that was intended to be an overview. If you want really want to understand the nitty-gritty details behind what make LINQ possible, be certain to tune into my LINQ Deep Dive WebCast on May 23 rd . If you’d like me to go into something specific during the webcast, just ... [ read more ]


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