/Home /Archive /Syndicate /Blog /Support /About /Contact  
All Visual Basic Feeds in one place!





If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live tomorrow at 9AM Pacific. These webcasts have been loads of fun for me. Although I prefer speaking in front of live people (I like to see your faces) I think I'm getting used to the webcast as a great teaching medium. Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 4/4/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes Hope you can join me. Enjoy! &n ... [ read more ]
Supporting the “pajama programmer” Telecommuting is a great thing, and as the environmentally-conscious person that I strive to be, is something I wholeheartedly endorse when it can be done practically.   My current job involves a lot of face-to-face meetings with people, so I don’t actually do a lot of it.   However, I do work from home in the evenings (for example, when crafting blog posts), so it’s important to me that my setup for working from home is usable. The challe ... [ read more ]
Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements.                                                              This month’s meeting will be a joint m ... [ read more ]
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.
IComparable(Of T) is an interface saying "I can compare myself to other objects of the same type".  And IComparer(Of T) is an interface saying "I can compare two objects of this type.".  Often API's which need to perform comparisons will take an instance of IComparer(Of T) instead of IComparable(Of T).  Doing the opposite is limiting in a few ways.  The first is it locks developers into the behavior defined by the type author essentially preventin ... [ read more ]


© 2005 Serge Baranovsky. All rights reserved.
All feed content is property of original publisher. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

This site is maintained by SubMain(), a division of vbCity.com, LLC