I’m really trying to like the new .NET 2.0 help system. I am, I really am! I’m used to the fact that some help pages will be COMPLETELY lacking in sample code. I don’t like it, I think that Microsoft is really missing the mark here. But I’m used to it because I see it [...]
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I’ve been bumping into Billy Hollis at developer events for the last ten years. Last time I saw him, we were riding in a taxi in Sydney Australia with a tremendous thunderstorm raging outside the cab. If you know Billy, you know that he was telling stories — funny and profound, all the way back [...]
It’s common in web programming to place links to resources on a page. The hyperlink tag is on nearly every page on your website. But what about Windows Forms? In .NET it is easy to add a hyperlink to a form. At least it looks and acts like a hyperlink. Add a LinkLabel to the [...]
VB6 to VB.NET – Best Practices For a Successful Upgrade
Posted in VB on Mar 20th, 2005
I’m going to keep my eye on Mike McIntyre’s blog. He has started a series detailing how to best migrate your old VB 6.0 applications to VB.NET. His company has done it time after time (they are starting their forty-sixth project) and he knows the pitfalls. Does you company need to make the jump to [...]
I’m not sure if you seen this comment on another post of mine. Your theorizing is correct. In VB 2005, if you put the parenthesis there, however, we will honor them and not remove them. This comment is from Paul Vick at Microsoft – he should know! So the disappearing parenthesis gotcha is going away [...]
To fully understand VB Gotcha #1 we need to look at the brief history of Visual Studio.NET and spend some time understanding .NET arrays and VB.NET implementation of arrays. Consistent model With the release of VB 7.0 (VB.NET) there was a lot of hoopla from Microsoft concerning the more consistent programming model. One of the [...]
Last week I was participating in a discussion thread about VB.NET and the Windows Forms. Matthew asked whether there was anything funky with the forms class that he should keep an eye out for. Those of us who were veteran users of VB 6 remember some of the odd behavior that cropped up from time [...]