I've been thinking a bit about Generics lately, with the growing conclusion that I will mostly use the ones that ship in the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework, but wrapping my head around a few situations where I could see myself defining Generic classes of my own. With all of these Generics thoughts in my head, I went back and re-read this blog...

I've been thinking a bit about Generics lately, with the growing conclusion that I will mostly use the ones that ship in the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework, but wrapping my head around a few situations where I could see myself defining Generic classes of my own. With all of these Generics thoughts in my head, I went back and re-read this blog...

Someone suggested to me that VB.NET Whidbey didn't have support for 'Generic Methods', so I quickly wrote a bit of sample code to check (yes, it does support Generic Methods) and I thought I'd post that test code for your amusement. Public Class GenericMethodSample Public Sub Swap(Of T)(ByRef i As T, ByRef j As T) Dim temp As T temp = j j = i i =...

One of the changes from VB6 to VB.NET was the removal of non-zero lower bounded arrays... a concept discussed by Eric Gunnerson recently, and now covered by Paul... giving it a bit of VB perspective. Non-zero lower bounded arrays (the other side of the coin) ... To finesse this issue, the CLR designers came up with a compromise: there would be two...

One of the changes from VB6 to VB.NET was the removal of non-zero lower bounded arrays... a concept discussed by Eric Gunnerson recently, and now covered by Paul... giving it a bit of VB perspective. Non-zero lower bounded arrays (the other side of the coin) ... To finesse this issue, the CLR designers came up with a compromise: there would be two...

Chris just got back from Disney, Sea World, etc... Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this weekend, the site manager for C#, Amy, is going to Disneyland this weekend.... and I'm heading there next week...All this, and nary a mention of the mouse from anyone on my team in my last two years at MSDN.Seem Odd? I'm very suspicious.

Chris just got back from Disney, Sea World, etc... Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this weekend, the site manager for C#, Amy, is going to Disneyland this weekend.... and I'm heading there next week...All this, and nary a mention of the mouse from anyone on my team in my last two years at MSDN.Seem Odd? I'm very suspicious.

Hmm... pretty cool so far, guess I'll see when I decide to start moving music around to my MCE box, my laptop, my Rio device... etc... found the Cake song I wanted though :) [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version - CAKE - Comfort Eagle (03:24)]

Hmm... pretty cool so far, guess I'll see when I decide to start moving music around to my MCE box, my laptop, my Rio device... etc... found the Cake song I wanted though :) [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version - CAKE - Comfort Eagle (03:24)]

You may never see the actual web interface to my blog, but if you do you'll see two new graphics along the left-hand side... Cory has been busy...

You may never see the actual web interface to my blog, but if you do you'll see two new graphics along the left-hand side... Cory has been busy...

If you follow Eric's blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you'll have already seen these... but if you haven't then let these three posts be just a taste of what is available over there; Who does Microsoft talk to when they have questions? ... The feedback we got around E&C has been fairly polarized. There is one group who feels the way...

If you follow Eric's blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you'll have already seen these... but if you haven't then let these three posts be just a taste of what is available over there; Who does Microsoft talk to when they have questions? ... The feedback we got around E&C has been fairly polarized. There is one group who feels the way...

Over in the Office side of the world, a set of 6 labs have been released, focused on learning how to use VB.NET and C# to create Office solutions with Office 2003 and Visual Studio Tools for Office... cool stuff if Office development is your thing (and it certainly is mine)... Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 2003 Training The...

Over in the Office side of the world, a set of 6 labs have been released, focused on learning how to use VB.NET and C# to create Office solutions with Office 2003 and Visual Studio Tools for Office... cool stuff if Office development is your thing (and it certainly is mine)... Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 2003 Training The...