Anders Hesselbom

Category: Visual Studio 10

Visual Basic: The coolest code editor you ever saw
2011-03-23

Let's say that you're typing a word. As you type... ...the IntelliSense filters out the word you are typing. If you type something that isn't in the list, the list is closing. If you decide that the last character you type [...]

Visual Basic: Serious error trapping
2011-03-13

The concept of filtering by exception type is familiar to any C# programmer. Visual Basic takes this one step further by also allowing a logical condition that also needs to be true for the block to be executed. If this feature is used, you can have [...]

Visual Basic: The most excellent code editor
2011-03-11

I can't hide the fact that I have a childish love for Visual Basic. I think this is worth a few blog posts. Than language and the code editor together works so incredible well for me. The language provides code blocks with keywords for opening and cl [...]

Getting started with Silverlight in an existing web application
2010-09-25

To get things started, I will show how to enhance a web application with a Silverlight object, and how to pass parameters to that object. To be able to follow, make sure that you have the Silverlight runtime installed. Also, you must have an existing [...]

Getting the meta data for a table from Visual Basic
2010-01-05

The last time I did this, I needed to build a custom Visual Basic entity generator. After two hours of coding, I had a tiny Windows Forms application that took some connection information and a table name, and returned an entity class with some prope [...]

Hardware accelerated graphics through XNA: Getting started
2010-01-02

There are some features of the XNA Framework that is unavailable from Visual Basic, but this should not stop you from writing descent games in Visual Basic. On my machine, I have installed XNA Game Studio 3.1 (a game developing environment from Micro [...]

The ups and downs of Visual Studio 2010: Auto list members
2010-01-01

In Visual Studio 2010, the auto list members feature is much more intelligent than in previous versions. For example, assuming that X is an object with a visible function called DoSomeWork, in earlier versions of Visual Studio, you would have to know [...]

The ups and downs of Visual Studio 2010: Fonts and scaling
2009-12-13

The first time I head of the zoom feature of VS2010 was in a talk by Dag König at Microsoft. The level of readability is a very important question for me, and the font rendering of Windows (Clear Type) is superb compared to the blurry font rendering [...]

The ups and downs of Visual Studio 2010: Call Hierarchy
2009-12-12

The function that finds all references to a function or a variable has been in Visual Studio for a few versions now. VS2010 has a similar feature called Call Hierarchy. Right click on any function definition or function call, and click View Call Hier [...]

VS at Professional Developers Conference 2008
2008-12-23

At PDC2008, Microsoft gave some information about the future of Visual Studio and C#. In 2010, C# and the .NET Framework will be in version 4 and Visual Studio and Visual Basic .NET will be in version 10. For those of you that wasn’t as lucky as mr. [...]

Visual Studio 10 and .NET Framework 4.0
2008-12-13

Visual Studio 10 and .NET Framework 4.0 is under development and will arrive in 2010. The technology preview is available (VS 10 on a Windows 7 image) and some documentation is also already available. One new cool feature is MGrammar, a grammar model [...]