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Romeo and Juliette and Windows Azure (Lucian Wischik)
17 November 08 09:00 AM
1. Juliette sends a message "I'll take a drug which makes me look dead but I'm not really" 2. Romeo receives the message 3. Romeo finds Juliette looking dead, but knows she's not really dead 4. They live happily ever after vs. 1. Juliette sends a message Read More...
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Where are the Windows "SDK tools"? Where is ildasm? (Lucian Wischik)
14 November 08 05:51 PM
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\bin\ildasm.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\ildasm.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\ildasm.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\x64\ildasm.exe C:\Program Read More...
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Typeless expressions (Lucian Wischik)
05 November 08 09:33 AM
"My dog has no type." "How does he smell?" " Awful! " Two of the new features of VB10 -- array literals and multi-line lambdas -- are interesting from the language perspective because their expressions have no type! This article is for language lawyers. Read More...
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Community Interview with Lucian Wischik (Beth Massi)
03 November 08 09:00 AM
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Lucian Wischik, a Developer on the team. I'm just getting to know Lucian but he is a very interesting and bright person who is just a pleasure to talk Read More...
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VB 2010 Language Features: The Channel9 Version (Lisa Feigenbaum)
02 November 08 05:48 PM
I recently blogged about the new VB 2010 language features announced at PDC, as well as the video available from Paul and Lucian's "VB Futures" session . Another way to learn about the new features coming out in 2010 is by watching the following Channel9 Read More...
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TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)
02 November 08 04:20 PM
Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Read More...
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A VS plugin to background-run your code and see the output (Lucian Wischik)
18 October 08 09:00 AM
Say you're demonstrating some code at a conference. What's the best way to do it? If you show only the code window, then you're counting on the audience's imagination about how the code will work (and their trust that it does!). But if you hit F5 to run Read More...
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Reflection on COM objects (Lucian Wischik)
12 October 08 09:00 AM
Reflection on .Net objects is done through System.Type and is very easy. For instance, "Dim type = GetType(System.String)" and now you can look at all the members and inheritance hierarchy of the System.String class. Reflection on COM types is also easy Read More...
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To compare two filenames (Lucian Wischik)
22 September 08 10:17 PM
I once visited an ancient tower in China. A sign said "tread carefully for you bear the weight of history on your shoulders". Our guide explained that the tower was over 800 years old! Oh yes, he said, it was built 800 years ago, had burnt to the ground Read More...
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Co- and contra-variance (Lucian Wischik)
07 August 08 01:52 PM
How do I convert an IEnumerable(Of CheckingAccount) into an IEnumerable(Of Account) ? (where CheckingAccount inherits from Account). Currently this conversion isn't allowed, but we're considering a VB language feature to support it. The topic is called Read More...
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