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September 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

This month we return to dig deep into code. The use of generics for .NET programming is a somewhat different, but extremely powerful and efficient, way of writing code. Pavel Yosifovich, CTO of Michlelet Hi-Tech, will get us all up to speed on using generics...

June 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

One of the most important new technologies for .NET, that we haven’t really covered in any of our IVBUG meetings, is WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows applications. It provides both developers...

Some Interesting Developer Resources

Here's a list of some interesting developer resources that I have had lying around for a while. What do you think? Do you use any of them on a regular basis? · http://www.universalthread.com/ · http://www.experts-exchange.com/ · http://www.annoyance.org...
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Notes on TechEd Israel 2008

Last week was the (now) semi-annual TechEd Israel conference. This was my sixth time participating in this event - I have given presentations at all six TechEds here. The conference is an amazing experience and has come a long way from 2000/2001 when...

Observations from VSLive! San Francisco 2008

I recently (OK, 10 days ago) returned from my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco, to speak at the main VSLive conference. My presentations this year are described here . I'd like to share with you two observations / surprises from this conference: (1...

The WideOpen Web - Confessions of a Rich-Client Bigot

OK - I am not really a Rich-Client bigot and these are not really confessions. However, until recently, my default choice for an applications UI was a rich-client (i.e. WinForms) interface. Of course, we had many cases where a client's requirements quickly...

Microsoft Developer Academy II

Following in the footsteps of last year's event, Microsoft Israel is repeating the Microsoft Developer Academt event (tomorrow, November 27, 2007). This full-day event offers 6 parallel tracks of presentations and panel disucssions, across 5 time slots...

F# Programming Language to be Integrated in Visual Studio

Back in February I blogged about some of my thoughts on the experimental languages Microsoft Research was playing around with. Today, Soma announced the formation of a team to move one of those languages, F#, from the realm of research to the realm of...
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Performance Improvements in VB9 / VS 2008

I recently had a discussion with Lisa Feigenbaum of the VB dev team regarding performance improvements in the upcoming version of Visual Basic. She pointed me to the following 2 interesting resources: Cameron McColl, VB perf developer, talks about and...
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Cool Video on Building Model-View-Presenter Mail app with CodeRush and Refactor Pro!

We just put up a really cool video showing how to build a Model-View-Presenter (MVP) mail app with CodeRush and Refactor Pro! for Visual Studio. You get to see the step by step transformation and evolution of code for the MVP pattern and you get to see...
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