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May 2006 - Posts

Happy Birthday VB

posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:40 AM by jwooley
It's hard to believe VB has been around for 15 years now. Thinking back 15 years ago, programming was not a factor in my future. I was busy finishing coursework on my Master's in Music Theory. My wife, who I had not yet met was pregnant with my younger Read More
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Extension methods in VB9

posted Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:50 PM by jwooley
I have commented previously on the power of Extension methods in C# 3.0, including the following posts on their power and danger, Namespace Collisions, and  IL rendering. Prior to the May 2006 LINQ CTP, all of the discussions Read More
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LINQed up at the Atlanta Code Camp

posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:54 PM by jwooley
Thanks to everyone who helped to make the Atlanta Code Camp the success that it was, in particular, thanks go out to the Atlanta Dotnet Regular Guys, Matt (who couldn't attend because he was doing something boring like his honeymoon) and Brendon. Now Read More
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Attachment(s): AtlantaCodeCampDemos.zip

LINQ May CTP is available

posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:29 PM by jwooley
The May 2006 CTP for LINQ is now live. See the .Net Framework Development Center for more information. I will probably be using the January CTP for the Code Camp presentation this weekend, but will look forward to trying out the new features and Read More
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Code Camp Advice

posted Monday, May 08, 2006 12:51 PM by jwooley
David Hayden has some great advice and things to think about when doing Code Camps. (http://codebetter.com/blogs/david.hayden/archive/2006/05/04/144043.aspx). Having just presented at my first code camp last month and helping to organize a code camp here Read More
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VB adopting FROM...SELECT syntax for LINQ

posted Monday, May 08, 2006 12:42 PM by jwooley
Evidently the VB team has thrown in the towel on the Select..From vs. From..Select battle. (See http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2006/05/05/11918.aspx). Personally, I have no problems with this change. It makes sense in terms of the order of evaluation Read More
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LINQ category

posted Monday, May 08, 2006 1:50 AM by jwooley
For those that are interested, I have added a category on this Blog specifically dedicated to the VB 9.0/C# 3.0 language changes that contribute to Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) and it's associated technologies, DLINQ and XLINQ. You can subscribe to Read More
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IL for C# 3.0 Extension Methods

posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:36 PM by jwooley
As yet another extension to my simple Extension Method sample from last week, I want to look briefly at the compiler’s rendering of the extension method implementation in IL. Consider the following code snippet:     public static Read More
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Namespace Collsions with Extension methods

posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:46 AM by jwooley
A question was asked at the Atlanta C# Study Group meeting last night regarding the handling of multiple extension methods with the same signature in the same scope. The answer becomes apparent by extending on my sample from last week. Last time, Read More
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