Back in the day, you use to be able to override an event in VB by using the drop down list in the code window. Today, I had a friend who is moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008 ask me, “How do I override events in VB.NET now?” All you get in the drop downs now is the event handlers.
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May 8th, 2008, posted by Dave
Well, it’s actually kind of cool, regardless of what Joel Spolsky thinks. I got my invite today and spent a little time trying it out. Here’s my first impressions.
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May 7th, 2008, posted by Dave
Once again, this post comes out of a conversation I had recently. You see, I have someone doing some work for me who’s just starting out in the programming field. Well, he’s just starting out relative to me. He’s actually pretty darn good.
As I was discussing a solution with this programmer I said something to the effect of, “Keep in mind that a lot of times, the easiest way to find a solution is to find out what the code IS doing.”
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May 6th, 2008, posted by Dave