By André Obelink on 30-12-2008 23:41

Visual Basic 2008 in combination with the .NET framework 3.5 brings us a lot of new powerful features. Some of them are obvious like LINQ or XML literals; other new features are less obvious. Some very handy features are the new (extension) methods on arrays. Methods for concatenating of arrays, filtering or even mathematical operations like the minimum- or maximum value or the sum of all elements.

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By André Obelink on 19-12-2008 22:30

In some cases you want to convert an image to a string which can be stored in for example a XML file. Once the string is stored as simple text, you want also be able to convert these readable characters back to the original image. Fortunately this is very easy to achieve with classes from the .NET platform.

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By André Obelink on 14-12-2008 1:06

Lisa Feigenbaum (Microsoft Visual Basic team) already blogged about it, but from today the Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 default keybindings poster  is available.

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