VB who knew?

I haven't written anything in my Blog for quit some time. Mostly because I have been preparing for presentations. We helped Microsoft with their Bigger Better Basic cross Canada tour last month. I spoke in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. It was great. We met lots of wonderful people who were all very excited about Web Services and Client Applications. I'm sure you can tell by the name that the show was for VB developers. My colleagues will tell you it's pretty humorous to say the least that I would wind up speaking to VB developers about how great VB.NET is to develop in.

At one time I would have nothing to do with VB. It was not Object Oriented, that was enough right there. ADO was not great, ASP was not great. It was just too hard to do anything. Well I'm hear to tell you, “VB has come a long way baby“. I was speaking with someone at the show on this very subject. They said “If you told me 1 year ago VB would one day have Generics I wouldn't have believed it”

I still prefer the syntax of C#. In a paste life I was a C developer so I am used the the sparse syntax and I like curly brackets. However, although I still find VB a bit verbose for my taste. I have been developing an application with it and it's a good language, VB.NET has a lot going for it.

Bigger Better Basic

Over the next month we are co-presenting with Microsoft at their cross Canada tour called Bigger Better Basic . ObjectSharp will be in 5 cities Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.

Come on out.