I just discovered this productivity application online. TimeSnapper is a tool that continually takes screenshots of your work. It makes timesheet recording a breeze and it helps you recover from unexpected crashes or lost data. What a neat concept??? There is TimeSnapper Classis which is a free download and there TimeSnapper Pro which has more [...]
You can create a new object and initialize some of its properties in one shot. Most examples online are in C#, so here is an example in VB: Dim mycar As New Car() With {.HasWheels = 4, .NumberOfAirbags = 2, .Passengers = 4} As for array initialization, it looks like this: Dim cars() = {New [...]
I am PISSED… Why doesn’t VB 9 have automatic properties??? VB has always been about simplicity and speed of coding. How can you give that feature to C# on VB… :( If you don’t know what I am talking about automatic properties in C#, let’s you do this: public string FirstName { get; set; } Instead of this: private string _firstName; public string FirstName { [...]
I typed Dim x = New List(Of String) but on the next line I realized that the implicit type inference didn’t work and Intellisense treated x as Object. It turns out, it was an easy fix. You have to open the project properties and turn “Option infer” to On. Or type Option Infer On at [...]
[Workaround below] I just installed Beta 2 for VS 2k8 and everything went well. Then I installed VSS and tried to open a project from VSS and it wouldn’t work… If I open a solution or a project, it just takes me back to “My Computer”. I tried both VSS over the Internet and over [...]