Door: André Obelink op: 16-10-2010 22:16

The use of lamdas is not new for Visual Basic 2010. In previous versions – actually with the introduction of LINQ – were they already available. In the latest version lambdas are enhanced mainly in two areas: multiline lamdas are now supported as well the use of the keyword Function(). The fact that a lambda can return a value could be very handy. In this post I will show you - illustrated with an example - the use of Function() type of lambda in combination with a Generic List

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Door: André Obelink op: 9-5-2009 22:46

In about two weeks from now the biggest Dutch Developer Conference - Microsoft DevDays 2009 - will start. Jonathan Aneja, Program Manager on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft will do two great sessions: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic and How LINQ works: Visual Basic 2008 Deep Dive.

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Door: André Obelink op: 9-1-2009 16:58

Enumerations can help you to make your code more consistent and better readable. Learn some best practices for using the standard enumerations or your own enumerations.

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Door: André Obelink op: 9-1-2009 1:45

Yesterday a colleague encountered a strange behavior of Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition in combination with Typed DataSets. When talking about targeting older .NET platforms, the Express Edition of Visual Basic 2008 is not so well suited as the full versions of Visual Basic.

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Door: André Obelink op: 5-1-2009 22:32

LINQ is fun. And LINQ is hot. You will find many resources writing about LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL or LINQ to ET. That's great, but what your perhaps not know, is that you can query almost any resource on your machine with LINQ. The technology is called: LINQ to Objects.

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