Another new article posted yesterday... "What's New In Help for VB 2005"- June 30, 2004 What's New in Help for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 1 Find out about the newest Help features in Visual Basic 2005 Beta 1, including distinguishing Visual Basic from other languages, more task-oriented topics, and an emphasis on code examples.http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/30/170085.aspx Operator Overloading in VB 2005- June 30, 2004 Matthew Gertz, Dev Lead for the VB Compiler, Editor & Debugger team has written an article on operator overloading in Visual Basic 2005...Operator Overloading In Visual Basic 2005Operator Overloading, new to Visual Basic 2005, simplifies the use and development of complex types by allowing you to specify your own implementation for standard operations such as addition and subtraction.http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/30/170048.aspx A sneak preview of Visual Basic 2005 (article) is up on MSDN...- June 22, 2004 This new article from Ken Getz provides an overview of many of the new features in Visual Basic 2005, including "My", "Edit and Continue", "AutoCorrect", "Just My Code" and more...Check it out herehttp://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/22/162949.aspx Ended the "Most anticipated release" poll...- June 17, 2004 And (hopefully the formatting will work out ok in the blog) here are the results :) What release are you most excited about Halo 2:...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/16/157854.aspx Visual Basic Power Pack Article Up on MSDN- June 16, 2004 If you follow other people's blogs, then you've probably heard about the Power Pack by now, but I'm happy to annouce that the overview article (complete with pictures!!) is available on MSDN!Check it out by clicking here!http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/16/157634.aspx More playing with ASP.NET- June 12, 2004 As with my earlier messing around with a poll, I took a concept from the www.asp.net site today and made my own "CheckDotNet.aspx" page. The one on www.asp.net only checks for the .NET Framework 1.0 or better, so I modified the logic to detect 1.1 and 1.0 as two distinct cases... recommending an upgrade for no framework or 1.0, and returning "Framework Found" if you have 1.1 already.http:www.duncanmackenzie.nettoolscheckdotnet.aspx Difficult Nope... nothing too impressive... Useful I have no...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/12/154080.aspx Whidbey docs up on MSDN's lab servers...- June 6, 2004 Check out this link to go right to the VB section... lots of great info in there... or check out the C section here. (found via the VSTO2 blog...) Note that this is not a prototype of the next version of MSDN... it is intended to be consumed by the internal browser in Visual Studio... so the non-IE issues mentioned in the comments and the lack of indexsearchetc... are really non-issues considering how this material is intended to be used. I post it only to give a little bit more Whidbey...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/05/149445.aspx Early & Adopter fill you in on "Application Level Events"- June 5, 2004 The 3 Leaf guys, (well probably just one of them... but who knows which one), talk about "Application Level Events" in Whidbey Here's a code snippet to illustrate what they are talking about... something that I like to think of as "Global.asa" (I haven't done a lot of web work since ASP) for Windows applications...Namespace My Partial Friend Class MyApplication Private Sub MyApplication_Shutdown(ByVal Sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ShutdownEventArgs) _ .http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/05/149085.aspx |