Tuck this Snippet editor tool into your toolbelt and start tweaking/creating code snippets for VB.NET 2005 !!      

  If you are a C# kind of person look away now, we don’t want yu getting an extreme case of VB envy …   REFACTORING In VB.NET 2005  

For some time now, the VS IDE team has been a bit in denial, but at last they’ve seen the light that size really does matter. <drumroll>….. In VS.NET 2005 you can resize the add references dialog !!!!!!!! </drumroll> That should put a smile on most folk’s dial You can now see the name as […]

  A new feature in Vb.NET 2005, requested by your’s truely, is the ability to include the “0 To ” in array declarations.   Whe nI asked for this feature though, I aksed for it to be a project level switch, such that the “0 To ” would always be included for you, and ideally be […]

In case you haven’t seen, REAL BASIC is offering their standard edition for free to VB6 developers. Brendon Chase contacted me last week to get my opinion on this… You can see his write up here. Personally I find REAL BASIC interesting, it has some “unique” approaches. There are also many things I don’t like […]

Today Microsoft has put up a web site devoted to VB6 developers ! Nice to see … It’s a small step in the right direction albeit years late Does it address the issues VB6 users face ? No, of course not. All it does is consolidate information already out there. Vb6 users are still faced […]

  unfortuantely some people don’t seem to understand rule #1    It is pretty simple.  If you make changes or deploy to  a live server, make sure you test those changes before deploying them.   So who didn’t do this ?  blogs.msdn.com, that’s who…   If you look at their upgrade “mess”, you’ll see that […]