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I know so little about C++, but will always remember Kate Gregory touting "no more double underscores" as a big benefit of C++ in VS2005. I don't even know where they are used. But I've had my own underscores to contend with for many years - the line continuation notation for Visual Basic. Finally, they...

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Earlier this month I blogged about the Silverlight Toolkit and it pained me to show a screenshot that only had XAML and C#. Happily, the March version of the Toolkit now has VB samples as well! Read more here! [A New DevLife post]...

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The Silverlight Toolkit folks at Microsoft are prioritizing their "Honey Do" list and one of the items on it is to be sure that more of their examples are in VB, not just C#. Of course, the toolkit should have originally had both C# and VB examples, but that's a different issue. In order for that item...

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Kathleen Dollard is building a list for C# devs who are going to be building projects in VB. Read more [A New DevLife post]

In the past few weeks, I have received an number of different VB2008 books for distribution at the VTdotNET User Group. I thought authors/publishers were cutting back on VB books but this is great to see. I wonder why the change, though? Read more here... [A New DevLife post]...

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While I will always promote the value of being able to read C# and mentally convert it to VB and being able to read VB and mentally convert it to C# is a skill I think all VB and C# developers should try to have, admittedly, having to do it with a whole book does sometimes get tiresome. If you are a...

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Bill McCarthy explained this to me in an email. He wrote about it in this excellent article in Visual Studio Magazine " Drill Down on Anonymous Types ". But it still bit me in the ass! So I am stamping this into my memory: in a query results in ...select cust.CustomerID.cust.CompanyName... Immutable...

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Last spring, I ran into Don Box in the hallways at MIX07. I hadn't seen him in quite a while and asked what he had been up to lately in his wizard's tower. Though he couldn't really talk about what he was doing, he did say that he was working on some cool new stuff and having fun. I had a quick fantasy...

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There is a lot of potential for using nullables incorrectly in VS2008 in Visual Basic without even realizing there's a problem, or encountering a problem that makes no sense. Check Bill McCarthy's article in the October issue of visual Studio Magazing (not online yet but watch this space ) is really...

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While there are many great LINQ resources for VB, I happened to read/watch/see these and wanted to be sure to point them out. 1) Lisa Feigenbaum's LINQ Best Practices webcast . Lisa is on the VB team. This webcast is full of great insights and tips. 2) Timothy Ng's Basic Instincts: Lambda Expressions...

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