One of the more interesting omissions from .NET so far has been that the System.IO namespace has not been updated to take advantage of new Language and CLR features. One of the more prominent features that I can think of would be Enumerator methods. An Iterator method- also known by other names in other languages, [...]

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Sometimes you need to create temporary files. Usually, you can discard those temporary files by opening them in a fashion so they are deleted when they are closed. However, in some cases, you are dealing with a library or other class that is very picky about what you give it. Other times, you create an [...]

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With the runaway success of Visual Basic 1.0, it made sense for future versions to be released improving incrementally on the existing version. Such was how we ended up with Visual Basic 2.0. In some ways, Visual Basic 2.0 changed Visual Basic from a backwater project like Microsoft Multiplan into something that would become a [...]

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In what will hopefully be a recurring series on older Development Tools, Languages, and Platforms, I will be covering some information on my old flame, Visual Basic. Visual Basic has a relatively long history, going back to around 1991. BASIC itself, of course, has an even longer history, starting at Dartmouth College in the 70′s. [...]

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XNA Game Studio is a finicky bugger, and it’s even more finicky now that it is no longer being maintained. One of the biggest issues is that it doesn’t work properly with the latest version of Visual Studio, 2012. However, you can cajole it and reassure it that things will be OK. One way to [...]

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