I’ve been waiting for this update for VS 2008 SDK for VS 2008 SP1.  The link I got fro ma msdn blog post was wrong, so here’s the link to the download page. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59ec6ec3-4273-48a3-ba25-dc925a45584d&DisplayLang=en Enjoy.

Davy Brion posted about how events can keep object references alive.  In C# to rid yourself of this issue you have to manually unwire any event handler you wired.  In VB, it is a lot easier, all you have to do is use WithEvents and set the variable to nothing. This code is the VB […]

  Via Nancy’s blog, I saw the link about Apple’s claim for accessibility features on the iPhone.  Have a look at this picture of their claimed “Giant font for Mail messages”   Maybe they could have made the picture a bit bigger, but if you have good eye sight you might notice that it appears […]

In case you haven’t seen it, Microsoft is releasing tools for WPF out of cycle as part of the WPF toolkit. Current release includes a CTP of a Data Grid, and a Date Picker and Calendar is planned.

As I looked out the window this afternoon I spied a young joey out of the pouch.  They’re like puppies, full of energy.  Of course by the time I grabbed the camera and went outside he was back in the pouch (no-where to be seen). Definitely does seem early this year compared to last year. […]

Check out the msdn subscriber homepage.  S   P1 for Visual Studio 2008 English is about 830 MB… downloading at present   🙂   Then I can install SQL 2008 🙂

Lucian has kicked off the conversation on generic variance in VB , so I thought I’d write a few posts outlining my perspectives on the subject… the first of which is this one, and what better place to start than to question whether or not it is really needed…… Generics came to .NET after the […]

This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while, so I thought I should post it, mainly because I want to talk about this and generic variance and arrays in more detail in the days ahead.  The reason this post was put on hiatus was I was waiting for my article on arrays […]

If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you can’t install all of the SQL 2008 bits because of shared components for Visual Studio 2008.  SQL 2008 wants to use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 components and that might/will break your Visual Studio 2008 setup.  Good news is SP1 for Visual Studio is said to be available […]

I downloaded the SQL 2008 Upgrade Advisor. When I tried to install it I got this :     It says a “Windows service pack” , yet Windows Update tells me my system is up to date.  Well it might help if I read the download’s system requirements ;)  What I needed to do was […]