You’ve probably seen this elsewhere, but… The PDC05 videos are now online and available to anyone who wants to watch them for (I believe) the next six months. You can catch my sessions there in case you missed the fun the first time around! TLN308: Visual Basic: Future Directions in Language Innovation PNL03: Scripting and Dynamic...

Dan Mabbutt has some very nice things to say about The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language. Keep it up and maybe there'll be a new edition sooner rather than later!

I think Rico’s spot on when he says that the real way you win the performance war is 5% at a time. Actually, I think he’s been overly optimistic — a lot of the time, it seems like you win the performance war 1% at a time. It’s much more like trench warfare than blitzkreig. There’s also a larger idea at work here...

I think Rico’s spot on when he says that the real way you win the performance war is 5% at a time. Actually, I think he’s been overly optimistic — a lot of the time, it seems like you win the performance war 1% at a time. It’s much more like trench warfare than blitzkreig. There’s also a larger idea at work here...

Just announced, we’ve got an upcoming chat on the VB 9.0 language enhancements we’ve been talking about: Visual Basic 9.0 Language EnhancementsDescription: Have you been hearing and reading about many of the exciting new features being planned for a future version of VB beyond the new version VB 2005? Would you like to get more...

Just announced, we’ve got an upcoming chat on the VB 9.0 language enhancements we’ve been talking about: Visual Basic 9.0 Language EnhancementsDescription: Have you been hearing and reading about many of the exciting new features being planned for a future version of VB beyond the new version VB 2005? Would you like to get more...

I notice that Darryl Taft has a very interesting article today over on eWeek asking “Will VB 9 Win Over the VB 6 Faithful?”. I think the headline is a bit off, since the real question is “Will VB 2005 Win Over the VB 6 Faithful?” given VB 9.0’s status as almost-entirely-vaporware at this point. The answer to...

I just noticed from Duncan that the announcement for the new vb:feeds site is up, courtesy of vbCity. It’s an aggregated feed of many of the top VB bloggers, screened for content (so you don’t get random entries about the blogger’s dog or something). It’s looking to be a good way to keep up with what’s going on in...

I just noticed from Duncan that the announcement for the new vb:feeds site is up, courtesy of vbCity. It’s an aggregated feed of many of the top VB bloggers, screened for content (so you don’t get random entries about the blogger’s dog or something). It’s looking to be a good way to keep up with what’s going on in...

Over the past several months, I’ve been getting questions as to whether I’m going to be updating my book, The Visual Basic .NET Language, for VB 2005. The unfortunate answer is: not at the moment. The first problem is that the VB .NET book market has been quite soft over the past year or two. This is not entirely surprising...

Over the past several months, I’ve been getting questions as to whether I’m going to be updating my book, The Visual Basic .NET Language, for VB 2005. The unfortunate answer is: not at the moment. The first problem is that the VB .NET book market has been quite soft over the past year or two. This is not entirely surprising...

I’m glad to see that Brad and Krzysztof’s Framework Design Guidelines book is finally now in stock on Amazon! Not coincidentally, I just received my own copy of it in the mail yesterday and I know it’s going to be one of the books that’s not going to make it to the shelf because I’ll be referring to it all the...

I’m glad to see that Brad and Krzysztof’s Framework Design Guidelines book is finally now in stock on Amazon! Not coincidentally, I just received my own copy of it in the mail yesterday and I know it’s going to be one of the books that’s not going to make it to the shelf because I’ll be referring to it all the...

In one of the comments to the “Introducing LINQ” entry that I wrote, Unilynx wrote: Sounds like what we've been doing for five years already :) This was a comment that came up several times at the PDC from various sources: “What’s so revolutionary about this stuff? We’ve been doing this kind of thing for...

In one of the comments to the “Introducing LINQ” entry that I wrote, Unilynx wrote: Sounds like what we've been doing for five years already :) This was a comment that came up several times at the PDC from various sources: “What’s so revolutionary about this stuff? We’ve been doing this kind of thing for...