Goto 100 - Development with Visual Basic

Eric on all things VB!

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 announced – and the return of UML

Blimey – and I am only just getting my head round Visual Studio 2008 :-) These are exciting times....

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/30/2008

A very good showing of VB developers

As folks should know, as of July I stopped doing any demos in C# (pretty much) and switched to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/29/2008

A few rough edges in our shiny new Data stack

We have a rather impressive set of new technologies for working with data – LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/16/2008

Another new find for me – MyVBProf.com

Just stumbled across this great resource of very nicely done screencasts on developing with Visual...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/10/2008

Is this a good VB ASP.NET 3.5 book – or not?

I am confused on this one. I have had people tell me it is excellent and others tell me it is just...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/10/2008

New find – Visual Basic 2005 development blog

It is 12am and I should be sleeping but I just stumbled across this blog site by Arsalan Tamiz...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/02/2008

Believe it or not – I’m off on holiday again

I really have got a taste for this thing called “holiday” - hence I am off to do it again for a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/22/2008

Visual Basic and .NET Framework Versions

Hi all, apologies for the pause in blogging. This is holiday season and I am … having plenty of...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/20/2008

See you all in a weeks time

I need to crack on with some other work today before my holiday. I should be back on the blogosphere...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/08/2008

Updated the list of events I will be attending/delivering sessions

Just a quick note to say I have updated my “Eric will be appearing” page. October is looking busy...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/07/2008

SQL Server 2008 is finished – break out the bubbly

SQL Server 2008 RTM’d yesterday (August 6th). It is already available on MSDN subscriber downloads...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/07/2008

Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - #1 in the UK

I remembered Paul Vick (VB team) spoke to Scott end of 2008 – and as part of that Paul mentioned...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/06/2008

Class Visual Basic Column in Visual Studio Magazine

You may (or may not) remember that Visual Studio Magazine used to be heavily focused on classic...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/06/2008

Visual Basic vs C# LINQ syntax

LINQ has two syntaxes – Lamda syntax and Comprehension syntax. Each has their uses and you can...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/05/2008

C# and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

As I dig into Visual Basic a bit further I to realise what I have been missing as a (lapsed) C#...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/05/2008

var != Dim – or why Visual Basic is the right choice for working with Microsoft Office

I just came across a great post from Scott (as so many of his are) which starts with an explanation...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/28/2008

Visual Basic Language Design Meeting on Channel 9

Beth Massi sat down with the VB Language design team to “talk about their design process, favourite...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/28/2008

200 LINQ Samples in Visual Basic

I recently discovered LINQPad. It is written by Joseph Albahari who wrote C# 3.0 in a NutShell and...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/28/2008

UK MSDN events now scheduled

Topics have been chosen, venues confirmed and details posted on our events site. We will be showing...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/28/2008

What a C# coder should know before moving to VB

I am one of those C# coders moving to VB that Kathleen is thinking about in her post on What a C#...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/23/2008

Great WPF application written in Visual Basic

Today I set aside sometime to watch some “random podcasts”. Ok, not that random in that I decided...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/22/2008

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

First Created: Wednesday 23rd July 2008Updated: Thursday 24th July 2008 - added Telerik I have been...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/22/2008

Visual Basic samples for WPF book - Applications = Code + Markup

Once again, Ged Meads work on WPF catches my eye. A big thanks to Ged, Young Joo and Evan Lim for...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/17/2008

Ged Mead on Windows Presentation Foundation

UK Visual Basic MVP Ged has been taking a look at WPF this year. I spotted his post on WPF Basics:...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/17/2008

Visual Basic vs C# - early adopters favour C#?

This myth is typically from someone in Microsoft who thinks, codes, demos and blogs in C# and wants...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/15/2008

Visual Basic Line Continuation Character (and more on VB10)

I previously posted about Amanda discussing the future of VB . One of the things Amanda talked about...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/14/2008

40% off Visual Basic .NET and C# Books ... (UK)

Visual Basic 6 developer moving to .NET - you need a good book!...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/13/2008

My first MSDN Flash is live - July 9th 2008

Yesterday was my first MSDN Flash. It was fun to put together working with Mandy in Marketing. I...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/10/2008

Intellisense - VB 2005 vs VB2008 + a great example of mixing VB with XML

I had not appreciated just how much intellisense had improved between releases of Visual Basic until...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/08/2008

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/07/2008

Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and the future of VB

Annoyingly I am on leave today and my wife has a long list for me that doesn't include 27mins to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/04/2008

And now...the end is near...

In the MSDN Flash June 25th issue my colleague Mike gave his farewell. His mention of a typewriter...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/30/2008

Eric will be appearing in person...

I have created a page with my future "gigs" listed - all an opportunity to see some Visual Basic,...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/30/2008

Eric will be appearing...

Thought I would have an attempt to list where you could bump into me in person (or where you need to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/30/2008

Refactoring in Visual Basic

Refactoring is a hot topic and something many developers are expecting to be available straight...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/25/2008

Proposed VB sessions for my new role - comments welcome

One of the roles of my new team is to offer a "menu" of .NET sessions to UK user groups. I was...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/25/2008

UK jobs using Visual Basic?

I was wondering what folks felt the job market looked like out there for Visual Basic .NET...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/19/2008

A week on .... making progress

Hi all, the last week flew by. Thanks very much for the comments and emails I received during that...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/19/2008

Mandy in marketing asked me to "Create some text that we could use on a flyer to tell folks why they...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/10/2008

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