The 26-year-old Visual Basic programming language just won't go away, as Microsoft just announced plans to bring its IDE back to the Office for Mac environment.
C# finally gets the BASIC GOSUB feature through local functions, but local functions take that GOSUB-like capability up a few notches.
Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in an upcoming VS 2017 release.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/13/2017
Lots of searching through lots of data means potential app performance degradation. Hash codes can speed things up.
Sensepost says it has discovered a method for hackers to compromise Microsoft Outlook by way of a Visual Basic-embedded shell. The catch: It requires a feat of social engineering to pull it off.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/17/2017
Here's the best performing option when you're retrieving the objects at the end of an entity class's navigation property, either when you only want some of the objects or when you only want them some of the time.
Visual Studio is all about making the developer coding experience more streamlined, allowing you to get to elements of the IDE that matter to you most. Customizing the Start Page is, well, a good start.
The custom formatters in the .NET Framework provide a more seamless way to mix traditional and custom formatting situations.
While Visual Basic is a bit more forgiving with data conversions, you'll need to jump through some hoops to do similar conversions in C#.
When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the Builder pattern. The Builder pattern is not only a great pattern for creating complicated objects, it supports your application's further evolution.
Mobilize.net now has support for Visual Studio 2017 for users of its VB-to-.NET code migration tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2017
No secrets here, as features and updates of the suite have been portioned out in public testing in the months and weeks leading up to the launch. So much of what's new in this morning's announcements has to do with the current state of several VS iterations, including the Mac and Mobile Center previews, as well as some new benefits.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/07/2017
Here are two ways to save some typing when defining anonymous objects. One only works in Visual Basic, though.
Welcome to the 21st century, C#, now that case blocks support a variety of pattern-matching formats.
Both are .NET Framework-based, but they don't seem to be speaking the same language.
From Visual Studio Live! in Orlando, Microsoft's Tim Sneath offered an extensive look inside the next-generation development platform.
Pile on the exceptions, and .NET will have your back with the tools it provides at your disposal.
The alternative to that simple error-handling combo is the Try...Catch, but it's not as simple as wrapping up your code with it.
Look behind the curtain on this one, and you'll see that code is quite magical in and of itself.
As Microsoft ends further development of LightSwitch, the "development" tool aimed at line-of-business types, it introduces an alternative: PowerApps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/17/2016