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Category Archives: VB.NET

Should people adapt to computers?

02-Aug-07

There was a comment over at Jeff Atwoods latest post “Meet the inventor of the mouse wheel“:
“The solution to computer illiteracy is to learn, not to cut the capabilities of the system for everyone. That’s the triumph of ignorance.”
Is that really the point? Whatever the developer decides is what’s right? People should adapt to the [...]

Adding values to the DataGridViewComboBoxCell at runtime

12-Sep-06

Welcome to hackville population me.
The DataGridViewComboBoxCell won't allow values to be entered in the cell if they are not in the Items collection. Since I can't modify the Items collection if the DataSource property is set, I add value of the cell that's causing the DataError to the DataSource for the combo box. Since [...]

Visual Studio Express editions free for 1 year

07-Nov-05

Wow. Microsoft FINALLY gets it. Even if just a little bit.
For 1 year, starting Nov 7th, you can download and use any of the Visual Studio Express Editions for free.
I often said the only reason I'm experimenting with Cocoa development is that XCode comes with OS X for free. If I had to pay $400 [...]

Running visual studio versions side by side

15-Aug-05

Has anyone had any luck running Visual Studio versions side by side? I'm going to try running VS 2003 and VS 2005 b2 on the same machine at home. It's not a production machine so I'm not too worried about it's stability.

A quick tip when dealing with resources

05-Jul-05

A quick tip, this may already be well known around the community, when dealing with .resx files and namspaces.
Make sure that the default namespace for your Visual Studio project is the same as the class you are trying to access resources embedded in your .resx files from. We kept running into problems if the two [...]

What gets me when I’m switching from VB.NET top C#?

17-Mar-05

Visual Basic .NET C#
For me it's all the simple stuff. I don't know how many times I've typed in string _name; in a VB.NET class and gotten an error.
What really gets me though is all the damn TYPING I have to do when I'm just trying to inherit from a class or implement an [...]

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