Robert Green's Visual Basic BlogVB Rocks!VB Dev Center Community page updates- August 31, 2004 Check out the VB Dev Center Community page. Duncan and I have spend a lot of time lately talking about this page and what we can do to make it more of a community page. The ultimate goal is to make this page more of a community portal, a front door to what's happening in the VB community. Sites like www.asp.net and www.windowsforms.net serve this purpose. Without going off and creating a separate site we want to bring this to the VB Dev Center. Yesterday we updated the Community page and..http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/31/223341.aspx VB suggestions update- August 25, 2004 As of 824, the VB team has 186 suggestions entered through the MSDN Product Feedback Center (up from 169 the week before), 168 of which have been entered since Beta 1. Of the 186 total suggestions, 104 have been resolved (up from 93 the week before). Status Total Not yet resolved 82 Wont Fix 26 By Design 24 Fixed 23 Postponed 18 Not Repro 7 Duplicate 5 External 1 What does all this mean First a little background. As you hopefully know, you can enter not only bugs,.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/25/220317.aspx VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour content- August 21, 2004 Jackie Goldstein has posted the slides, demos and videos of the VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour on the Microsoft Israel Web site. Way to go Jackie! And speaking of Jackie, he will be speaking at the VB Meeting of the .NET Developers Association this Monday at 7:00 PM. The topic is ADO.NET: Lessons learned with 1.1 and coming attractions in 2.0.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/20/218046.aspx More good music on the Web (or the radio if you live in Boston)- August 20, 2004 WERS 88.9 FM Emerson College Radio in Boston, at www.wers.org I first heard this station when I was in Boston (out for a run in my home town of Marblehead). I recently found them on the Web. The weekday show Jazz Oasis is 10 AM to 2 PM EST, which is 7 AM to 11 AM PST, which is perfect for early morning listening (unless I am listening to John in the Morning on www.kexp.org). As the name suggests it is a jazz show and a good one. The show after that, Gyroscope, is "an eclectic mix of...http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/20/218025.aspx Top 10 Worst Software- August 20, 2004 Check out John Dvorak's list of the 10 worst software packages of all time:10. Microsoft Bob9. Combined Category: Dead Programming Languages8. MicroPro Easy7. Windows 1.06. Access (the telecom program, not the database)5. TopView4. Lotus Symphony and Lotus Jazz3. Framework2. Microsoft OS21. VisiOn Never heard of these Waddya, one of them young punks with no sense of software history Used any of these How does it feel to be old enough to be the father of those young punks you work withhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/20/218022.aspx Previously on Robert Green's blog- August 20, 2004 Robert blogged for awhile. Then he stopped. Then he sort of started again, but not so much. Then he stopped, or more accurately, stopped starting again. But now he is back, again. And is committed to regular blogging. You'll see.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/20/218021.aspx |