Archives
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March Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting
The March meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group meeting will be held on March 2, 2005:
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Future of VB.NET - A response to Richard Grimes
In response to the Richard Grimes "controversy", there have been several good responses. I think I like the response by Paul Kimmel the best. That is probably because he focusses more on the future, than on the past and present.
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Hello SQL Server Workgroup Edition !
Microsoft announced today the line of versions for SQL Server 2005. Included in this lineup is a new Workgroup Edition, in addition to the Standard, Enterprise, and Express (MSDE) editions.
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DevSource Interview - VB. Data Access, Patterns & Practices, and More!
My interview with DevSource is now available online.
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Reference Manual for FireFox (and other Mozilla) DOM Programming
We are currently finishing up an ASP.NET 1.1 application for one of our clients. One of the requirements was to support the FireFox browser. Now, ASP.NET does a good job of this - on the server. But where we ran into problems and incompatabilities with IE was with programming the DOM with Java script on the client.
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ISV Applications for 64-bit Windows Server 2003 ?
If your ISV application, or an application that you love, plans on supporting the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003, then you should contact Microsoft here. They are trying to locate/identify such applications to promote the the 64-bit OS - this could be a good publicity opportunity for you.
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Oracle .NET Technology Center and VS Tools
This is one of those posts that is hard to imagine writing a few years ago...
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Breakfast with Mary Jo Foley
One other fun thing from VSLive, but not directly related to the show. On Wednesday I had breakfast with Mary Jo Foley. She is the author of the popular online newsletter Microsoft Watch, that I have been reading for a long time. If you want a good, centralized way to keep track of what is going on in and around Microsoft, you need to subscribe to this feed.
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Understanding Indigo
As I mentioned in my previous post, the big news at this year's VSLive San Francisco conference was Indigo Day.
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VSLive San Francisco Wrap-Up
I am finally getting a handle on the post-VSlive backlog...
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.NET Celebrity Auction Raised $10,183 for Tsunami Relief
Now that the .NET Celebrity Auction is over, the final numbers are in. We raised $10,183 for Tsunami Relief. Special thanks for the immense amount of time put in by my friends Julie Lerman and Stephen Forte.
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Do You Agree with the Visual Expert VB Survey ?
The folks at Visual Expert have posted the results from their 2004 Worldwide VB Survey Results. To me, the number they report for VB developers who have migrated to VB.NET, rather than continuing with VB6 seems rather low. What do you think of these numbers ? Do you have any thoughts/insights regarding any of the other numbers that they are presenting ?
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Don Box Programs in VB!
No, I am not making that up just to drive traffic to my blog - it really is true !
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Ron Jacobs and his Magical Mixing Machine
After I finished moaning yesterday about my disappointment in the new Enterprise Library, I was fortunate to bump into Ron Jacobs (I am down in San Francisco to speak at VSLive). I used the opportunity to express not only my displeasure, but my concern for the whole VB community. Ron liked what I had to say and wanted to "get it on tape", so he pulled out his newest toy - what I dubbed as his "Magical Mixing Machine". This is a nice hardened box, which includes a 4 channel audio mixer and associated lapel microphones. It is his personal mobile PodCast recording studio. I was hanging out with Deborah Kurata, so the three of us had a nice little chat that Ron recorded and he will hopefully have it posted on his blog shortly.
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A Disappointment in the Enterprise Library
Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library. While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major disappointment. When I opened the code for these application blocks, I was shocked to realize that the source code for the blocks was only available in C# ! The documentation and Quick Starts are in both C# and VB (and well done), but the blocks themselves are C# only. This is a step backwards from the previous version where at least most of the blocks had both C# and VB versions of the source code.