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Paul Vick discusses the question that just won't go away... VB or C#?
Monday, May 31, 2004I get this question a lot, and I explain many of the same things that Paul goes through in this post, so I'd love it if more people would read this material: The "native" .NET language? In the comments on my post on language choice, Patrick asked “isn't C# the language that's most 'native' to the .NET environment?” Christopher then follows up with a related question as to whether developers should use functions in the System namespace instead of ones in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace because the former might be faster. We see these kinds of questions fairly often, so it's worth discussing [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Visual Basic at the Movies now available for download...
Friday, May 28, 2004Interested in VB at the Movies, but wanted to pull the video files local? Now you can... Click here to go to the download page. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...
Thursday, May 27, 2004Cyrus, recent addition to the C# bloggers list and poster of many posts, has been blogging extensively from TechEd... OMGTHXURGR8!!!! That's basically the message we got today concerning the work we're doing in the C# IDE for VS 2005. I ended up not being able to show people the new stuff on a person by person basis because we ended up getting too much of a backlog of people while that was happening. I ended up doing demos 10 people at a time instead. At first I thought it was because I had some awesome C# hats to give [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
The 'Chalk Talk' went well....
Thursday, May 27, 2004You can expect to see a MSDN TV version of this session at some point soon... should be pretty good quality, Anders was wearing a microphone... although it did fall off him for a bit :) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Anders Chalk Talk today at 2pm to 3:15pm (at TechEd 2004)
Wednesday, May 26, 2004Swing by Cabana 5 today (May 26) at 2pm if you want to chat with Anders.... Erica Weichers is here and is going to try and record it, but if you are at TechEd you should come on by. (Just in case you don't know the name: Anders Hejlsberg is the designer of the C# language... so if you are into C#, you'd probably enjoy listening to his talk) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Contents of a programmer's backpack
Tuesday, May 25, 2004Returning to the room tonight I was greeted by an amazing spread of technology across the bed in my hotel room. Early in the day I had returned to my room only to realize that my cell phone was not in my pocket as expected, so I had proceeded to pull everything out of my backpack, one item at a time, and place it on the bed. Turns out it wasn't in there, it was back in the Cabana... but that isn't really the point of this post. Now, because it is very late and I wish to use my [read more...]Share this -
Paul Vick is in the house....
Tuesday, May 25, 2004Paul Vick, language guy for Visual Basic and unofficial spokesman for Krispy Kreme (look at the picture to understand that comment), arrived yesterday at TechEd.... Look for him around the Developer Division Cabanas (5 and 6), the Visual Studio 2005 booth and at the "Meet the VB Team" session (Thursday 3:15-4:30).(click to see the whole picture)Bonus points if you can pick out the MSDN staffer in the background behind Paul... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
New IIS site...
Sunday, May 23, 2004I wouldn't have known about this site, if the site's owner wasn't sitting behind me on the plane to TechEd, so I thought the rest of you might not know about it either :) TryIIS.com is a new site dedicated to resources for evaluating IIS, and contains over 100 whitepapers and other materials... Now, I have no idea why they had to create a special site for this, when they have an IIS section of microsoft.com, but that little complaint aside, this site contains a ton of useful info. So... if you are into web development, you'll need a web [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
At TechEd and waiting for your questions!
Sunday, May 23, 2004Headed over to registration today, very very busy... then to the Cabana with Erik Porter... very very empty.... Erik and I then decided to head off to catch a pre-conference session, but even those were backed up due to the long registration lines. Oh well, back to the Cabana to wait for some great VB questions :) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Made it to San Diego...
Saturday, May 22, 2004I flew down to TechEd today, and I made it to the Marriott without any incidents... and I have my first 'Cabana' session tomorrow at 8:30 am... This means I'll be hanging out in the convention center, in the 'Cabana' area, in case anyone wants to drop by and chat about VB... there will be someone there for all the major technology areas pretty much all the time throughout the week. I've got quite a few shifts scheduled, which means that the Cabanas will be the best place to find me at almost anytime during the event...Internet works fine in [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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