I blogged about the "My" classes here, and also video interviewed Joe Binder about the "My" classes here, but now I want to make an open request to Microsoft to see the "My" classes sooner than later. As I understand it the "My" classes include a set of VB 2005 IDE features but are otherwise …
FREE VB.NET 2003 Standard Edition
Paul Vick posted about VB @ The Movies. Check it out as Microsoft is giving away a free not-for-resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to anyone in the USA or Canada who views and rates five of their movies. This is very, very cool. Pass it on to anyone you’d like to get started …
Video Interview about the “My” Classes
As I just posted, I was inspired by Channel 9‘s video interviews so decided to get a digital camcorder to film interviews with our vendors about their products for posting on Xtras.Net. However, when I get the opportunity I’ll interview anyone related to the .NET development and post those interviews on my blog. Case in point, …
My, My, My!
(I first wrote most of this about 3 weeks ago, but never got a chance to finish and post it. I’ll be posting something else about “My” is a few days, so I wanted to post this first.) When I first heard about “My” Classes (list of classes) planned for Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005, I thought …
What major advantages does C# have over Java?
Matt Davey just posted about a presentation to management types where they asked the question (among others) “What major advantage does the C# language have over and above the Java language?“ My first thought was “attributes“ which allow developers to tag code with metadata that can be programmed against but I was sure there was …
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Great People and Old Friends at VS Connections
I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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Why .NET needs the (option of) less strictness
First, I’m honored Paul Vick was willing to read my long-winded essay, and second I’m honored he would blog about it. In this blog post Paul wrote: …Mike also raises the question of strictness. He makes the argument (echoed by Don Box and others) that many programmers would do better with a world that’s more …
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Responding to Eric Lippert’s Blog Entry
Thanks Eric for acknowledging my post. Eric, sorry about misusing Mort and Matt. I didn’t see the comments of Peter Torr and your responses until after I wrote my long rambling post (yes I agree, it was long and rambling, intentionally.) Actually, I feel my comments apply both to Matt and Mort. Mort still has …
A Modest Proposal: VBScript.NET, aka “Helping Mort use .NET”
As I alluded to in my recent essay on Transitionality, this is the essay which proved one of the main catalysts for me to start blogging. But first a bit about the alternate title. So Who is Mort, you ask? I referenced him w/o explaining in my prior essay, though I linked to his “creator” …
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