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After some hard but fruitful work, we’ve just finished our “milestone quality” (MQ) efforts, the goal of which was to get ourselves ready for developing the next versions of Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET.   Although not specific to Visual Basic, I’ve opted to use this “bully pulpit” to let you know about these efforts, which certainly do impact Visual Basic along with other Visual Studio and .NET products.   As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the MQ work doesn’t ... [ read more ]
Over the last few months, the VB and Data Programmability teams were working on fixing a performance problem with LINQ to SQL (which also manifested in LINQ to Entities). The issue was that LINQ to SQL was generating sub optimal T-SQL queries when the VB LINQ queries included filters over nullable columns. For example, consider the following query: Dim q = From o In db.Orders Where o.EmployeeID = 123 Select o.CustomerID In this scenario, the Orders.EmployeeID field is a nullable ... [ read more ]
Come join me and Rob Windsor in 30 minutes for a webcast on how to move your VB6 investments to .NET! Live From Red Bethmond: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET Hope to see you all there. If you can't make it live, the download will be available this evening. Enjoy!
Joe Wrobel fills an important hole for people developing web applications in VS08 Files can be downloaded from the Web Profile Builder project page. If you use Web Application Projects, you have probably run into the issue of not being able to access the Profile at design time. Web Profile Builder for Web Application Projects - Joe Wrobel
Paul Vick posted a speculative post as to Automatically Implemented properties for VB10.  Although it's kind of nice, it really is just a minor modification from what C# did in 3.0 and misses a lot of the "what if" scenarios we should be asking. What if : You want to add a break point on the property set  or get? You need to add some validation or logging ? You want your existing code to look consistent ? What's being proposed falls down on all those ... [ read more ]


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