Patrick Steele's .NET Blog
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VB.NET vs. C#
No -- I'm not starting another language war. I was converting some C# code to VB.NET today. After getting everything converted, I had to change the name of the class (nothing to do with the conversion). I changed it and then thought "shoot -- now I need to change all of the constuctors" (it has three overloaded constructors). Then I remembered I'm in VB.NET and all of the constructors are named "New" -- no changes required.
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GANG Meeting tonight
The Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (G.A.N.G) is having their monthly meeting tonight.
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Posting with w.bloggar!
Got w.bloggar set up. Thanks go to Steve Smith for his recent post on w.bloggar setup. The real nice thing with w.bloggar is the preview window. Since it allows a lot of customization, I've got (pretty much) a 100% WYSIWYG preview of my weblogs.asp.net postings.
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VB.NET documentation bug with 'Throw'
I've notified Microsoft of a small bug in the VB.NET documentation. For the 'Throw Statement', the documentation says the expression part of the statement is required:
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Oracle and ADO.NET
Sam has posted a great list of resources on ADO.NET with Oracle.
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A little off topic...
Apologies for the slightly off-topic post. I haven't been posting much because I've been home helping my wife out with our newborn! She's a beauty and her older sisters adore her.
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Passing Delegates to Unmanaged Code
Adam Nathan writes about the issues with passing delegates to unmanaged code. Namely: it can get garbage collected right out from under the unmanaged code:
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VS.NET and editing Resx files
Am I missing something or is it really true that the built-in resource editor in VS.NET only supports strings? I can't find anyway to put binary files (for example, a bitmap) into a ResX in VS.NET's resource editor. Thankfully, there's Lutz Roeder's Resourcer.
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Remote Tracing
Simon Mourier has come up with what looks like a very cool library to trace .NET apps over the network:
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VB.NET: Under The Covers
Being a curious kind of guy, I decided to look into some of the features unique to VB.NET. A combination of some VB.NET code, ILDASM and Anakrino and my questions were answered!