Wow… over 25 kgs in 5 months !!  (that’s 60lbs in old talk).  Congrat’s Frank !!   BTW: For the oldies amongst us, note how Frank includes “stones” as a measurement.  I actually still understand people’s weight best in stone, and height best in foot and inches, but for everything else I way prefer metric.. […]

In Whidbey it appears the icon overlays in object browser are no longer there, so you can no longer visually detect which members are shared (static) and which are not. 

Duncan talks about upgrading a project from VB.NET 2003 to 2005, and the default change in the rule for accessing Shared members from an instance variable.  An important thing to note is that this is a compiler option … you can turn the rule off, set it to warn, or set it to throw a […]

From todays chat with Eric Rudder: “We have heard a large number of folks ask for VB6 runtime support on Longhorn. We will do this.” [Eric Rudder] David Burggraaf-MSFT (Expert): Q: what is the role of native/COM C++ development going forward? Is this something that Microsoft will actively encourage and support?A: YES! Both native C++ […]

Wow, it’s taken a while to track down one of these 9.5mm hard drives in Australia.  Most places had them on back order.  Anyway, yesterday I finally got my hands on one.  I went for just 60 GB. So the upgrade was from a Hitachi Travelstar 60GB to another one, the big difference being the […]

This last couple of days there’s been some posts by Microsoft people trying to re-assure folks that VB6 support is going to continue for some period of time.  But what they aren’t telling you is … As some of you may know, VB6 is at SP6.  That’s frozen now for time infinite despite the known […]

In Rob Copeland’s first blog entry, he talks about the VB runtime being supported as part of the OS (Windows XP).  When Microsoft started including the VB runtimes with the operating system it really was a great move forward for VB. Unfortunately that is not guaranteed to go forward.  For example, the VB5 runtimes were […]

Great to see that Rob is finally blogging. 

Wow, over 200 MVPs have signed the petition to Microsoft asking for a better road forward for VB6.  Total signatories as I write this is already over 1500 !! And reading the blogsphere there are other great names who haven’t signed the petition that also think Microsoft needs to do something better there, including Dan […]