Month: August 2010

Have you also heard the rumor that VB and F# is not support on the new Windows Phone 7? Well, Justin Angel, a Silverlight expert, disagree and in this post on his blog he showed that you indeed can use those languages to develop WP7 applications. Check it out it’s a pretty cool workaround. I must admit that I was a bit skeptic at first since the normal problem with supporting VB on a device that only implement a part of the .Net Framework (such as XNA for writing games for the X-Box) is to include Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll since it, as … Continue reading VB and F# support on Windows Phone 7

I just saw an interesting video blog post by the CTO of Devexpress entitled Pac-Man and Object-Oriented Programming, in which Julian talks about how we’ve been doing object-oriented programming for 20 years now (or even more than that if you come from the SmallTalk world) and how we, as OOP/OOD programmers and designers think about programming. He then quickly moves on to comparing that to a game of Pac-Man. Now Pac-Man was a great video game developed by Namco in Japan back in 1979 and it was released in Europe and the US the year after. The game was an … Continue reading When OOP stinks and when you instead should leave a smell behind…

During the VSLive! keynote in Redmond, Microsoft yesterday announced a new Visual Studio product called LightSwitch. LightSwitch is a new SKU for Visual Studio that will allow people to create line of business (LOB) applications for the desktop and the cloud without writing a single line of code. It will also be shipped with future version of Visual Studio Pro and above. In a way it reminds me of Access but with the difference that it can use different data sources, including Sharepoint and Azure SQL. Since the announcement there have been a wild discussion within the MVP programmers community, … Continue reading Microsoft is switching the light but will it turn on or off?