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Sunday, February 03, 2013 4:44 PM

Further Adventures in WinRT - Part 1

Working with WinRT, well, I'm just going to say it... sucks! I'm past the "who moved my cheese" phase; so that's not why I'm making that statement. It sucks because it is not completely thought out, requires that you have to
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Friday, January 25, 2013 4:40 PM

Helpful WinRT Samples

The following is a list of samples that I've found helpful as I continue to work on my first WinRT application: XAML AppBar control sample Demonstrates how to use the AppBar control to present navigation, commands and tools to users. Of interest is
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Monday, December 17, 2012 5:25 PM

Cross-Platform Development with the .NET Framework ("VB Core")

Disclaimer: Let me be clear in that I am ***not recommending*** doing what I'm about to discuss except for the specific scenarios where it is ***needed***. With that said... When working with platforms that do not have full support for the Visual
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Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:00 AM

GW-BASIC 0.1.4

I've made a few enhancements to the interpreter.. There is now a branding/navigation bar across the top. This provides the ability to visit this website and access to additional functionality. The files button (in the navigation bar) provides for
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:32 AM

GW-BASIC

I've been working hard since I got back from England on all aspects of the interpreter. Language For the most part, I think I have most of the language covered. I've added a few extra keywords; however, the primary purpose is the have as much
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Monday, March 19, 2012 3:57 PM

Cambridge, England, UK

Next Monday, I'll be headed to the UK (Cambridge) for a "vacation". As it turns out, this is also the home of Red Gate software, makers of SQL Toolbelt , ANTS Profiler and .NET Reflector . I'll be spending some time with them while there;
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Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:36 AM

End of year wrap up (2011)

BLOG I'm currently in the planning stages to rebuild this site. I've delayed doing this for a long time since I didn't want to "break links"; however, one reason why I don't contribute as much as I used to is the fact that I
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:54 PM

BASIC - Status as of 2011-07-27

Wow! It's been a month since my last update regarding this pet project. To be fair, I did go on vacation for a week, so it's really only been about 3 weeks of spare time effort on this. With that said, I think it's moving along at a rather
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:31 PM

VB10 vs VB6: Variants are not supported.

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6 . "Variants are not supported. Object is now the default data type." Wow! Really?!?!? Someone actually "defending" (or rather complaining) that Variants are not supported?
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:55 PM

VB10 vs VB6: Option Base

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6 . "Option Base is not supported." OK, time for a little history (extremely shortened). In the beginning, BASIC had 1 based arrays (May 1964). The creators of BASIC realized that this
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Monday, June 27, 2011 5:53 PM

BASIC - Status as of 2011-06-27.

I still don't have a name for the BASIC project I'm working on; however, would like to share some of the progress I've made. Parser (technically a scanner/ validating parser) layer is far enough along that I think it will be pretty simple
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Monday, June 20, 2011 5:03 PM

Back to BASIC!

Before I make an announcment, I have to make it ubundantly clear that I'm a huge fan of Microsoft Visual Basic and do not have any significant complaints on where Microsoft has travelled with the language and, without risk of violatinig NDA, where
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Monday, June 20, 2011 4:42 PM

VB10 vs VB6: Dynamic Arrays Usage In Structures

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6 . "Dynamic arrays are not allowed within structures (UDTs) " I'm kind of scratching my head by this statement as I'm not entirely sure what he means by "dynamic arrays".
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Saturday, June 04, 2011 4:36 PM

VB10 vs VB6: Array Lower Bounds

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6 . "Arrays may not have a lower bound other than zero." This, as it turns out, is absolutely true; however, with a twist. Although VB10 does not allow the "native" array
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Saturday, June 04, 2011 4:02 PM

VB10 vs VB6: Private Class Variables

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6 . "Private class variables are not private to the class instance." This is another one of those "huh?" responses. However, I'll go ahead and discuss it anyway. As documented
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