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What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB

Kathleen Dollard has posted an excellent list of 51 (so far) things that a C# coder should know when working in Visual Basic. I especially like #1 on the list: "Get over the respect thing or quit before you start. VB is a great language." Check it out: http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen/archive...

Posted to Site News (Weblog) by admin on 07-19-2008
Mapping Heroic Adventure!

This project has gone through several different forms of source control and bug/issue/feature tracking (currently CodePlex for both) and has gotten a bit unwieldy. Lots of features have been started but not finished. Some of the stuff that's been implemented doesn't work quite the way I want...

Posted to Heroic Adventure! (Weblog) by admin on 06-11-2008
Iowa Code Camp - XNA Session

This weekend, I'm speaking at the Iowa Code Camp on "What's This XNA Thing I Keep Hearing About?" I'm covering some basic XNA 2.0 concepts and a couple demos. I'm doing the Spinning Bouncing Ball demo in C# and the Chase Camera demo in VB.NET. I was going to show off the Race...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 05-03-2008
Bresenham's Line Algorithm - VB XNA style

1: Imports Microsoft.Xna.Framework 2: Imports System.Math 3: 4: Public Class Utils 5: ''' <summary> 6: ''' This function uses Bresenham's Line Algorithm to find the 7: ''' most direct path between two points on a 2D grid and stores 8: ''' all...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 04-15-2008
Robotics Studio samples coming soon

If you're interested in Microsoft Robotics Studio, but despaired at the lack of VB samples... we're here for you. Keep checking back to the site as we've got some people working on putting together some VB demos, samples and tutorials. Once they are ready, we'll launch a VB Robotics blog...

Posted to Site News (Weblog) by admin on 04-15-2008
VS2008 Webinar Demo Code

This is the demo code for the Magenic Webinar on 3/25/2008 featuring LINQ and AJAX.

Posted to Fun with LINQ files (FileGallery) by admin on 03-25-2008
LINQ and AJAX webinar sample code

This is the sample code used in the 3 demos I did today (3/25/08) for the Magenic Webinar on Visual Studio 2008. Grab it here. The archive contains a solution with 2 aspx pages and the related VB codebehind files. You should be able to look at the query and get a good idea of the schema of the Person...

Posted to Fun with VB LINQ (Weblog) by admin on 03-25-2008
VB Lately

Over the last month, I have asked a lot of people (including consultants, VB MVPs, in-house developers, students and hobbyists) how they use VB.NET and to tell me the most recent thing they had done with it. I'm still putting all of it together, but I wanted to share some of it now. So, here are...

Posted to General VB News and Items of Interest (Weblog) by admin on 03-24-2008
my thoughts, exactly...

Matthew Kleinwaks said this earlier today, and I just couldn't agree more. Does VB give me what I need to write my commercial software: Yes Does VB work well enough that I get my program out the door on time: Yes Do I get a paycheck for the work I do with VB: Yes Has VB.NET gotten better with every...

Posted to Site News (Weblog) by admin on 01-30-2008
Re: Reinforcements Have Arrived, YES!

Thanks Karl! Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I'm still learning my way around Community Server and didn't get notified of the pending posts.

Posted to General Chatter (Forum) by admin on 01-24-2008

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