Wow.

Hard to believe that it was 2001 when we started coding in "that new stuff", the fingers find it so natural now and when we pull out the VMs of the VB2/3/4/5/6 we don't even know how to start (remember before VB4 gave the development world Intellisense?  How did we get anything done?).

It's not new anymore, though believe it or not there are still companies out there that think .Net is some passing fad, clinging to IDEs and languages that no longer have any hope of support ... and in some cases don't even have vendors anymore.

But they are there and their people want to move up.  And when I mentioned the thought of dumping all these pages it was a happy slap to hear - and from a ManagedVC++ person no less - that there are still things here that can be found nowhere else and they can be easily ported to the .Net lingo of choice for real-world benefit.

So, here they all are.  For me, because often times in the latest jobs I've been able to find them here myself or point to them for a company's benefit, and for you because even if the VB (or C#) examples aren't in your dialect exactly the rumour is that you might be surprised.

You just gotta poke around.

smith
March 2008