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With the release of a new feature pack for Visual C++ 2008, developers can now write applications that feature the Office 2007 appearance, a Microsoft senior executive announced this week. At the same time, the company also discontinued support for its aging Visual Basic 6 integrated development environment, or IDE — to the dismay of some die-hard users.
“I am pleased to announce that the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has shipped,” S. Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said on his blog this week.
“The Feature Pack provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC [Microsoft Foundation Classes] and an implementation of TR1 [Technical Report 1],” the post said.
The MFC gives C++ users access to the Windows programming interfaces, while TR1 is a set of suggested additions to the International Organization for Standardization’s C++ standard. Using the newly added MFC components, “developers can create applications with the ‘look and feel’ of Microsoft’s most popular products — Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer,” his posting continued.
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Mike Murach and Associates has just published a 2008 edition of their core Visual Basic book, entitled Murach’s Visual Basic 2008. It teaches how to develop Windows forms applications the way the best professionals do. To do that, it incorporates the features that have made earlier editions such popular choices among developers.
The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code’s types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
The Source Code Outliner PowerToy was created as a package using the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2008. For more information about VSX, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center. The project source code (in both C# and Visual Basic) can be found on the SourceCodeOutliner project on CodePlex.com.
Extreme VB and .Net is a resource for programmers. Extreme VB and .Net has been online in one form or another since 1995. The first version went online on our ISP home pages. During the time it was hard to find reliable dial-up so we changed ISP many times before finally getting DSL in 1998.
Since we were constantly changing ISP the site was moved to Xoom in 1997. It remained there until 1998.
The domain was purchased in 1998 after the site exceeded bandwidth limits on Xoom. The site used to have a forum. The forum turned into the best Visual Basic forum on the net. It still exists at http://visualbasicforum.com. I split off the forum from the main site in 2002 and sold the forum in 2005. I briefly turned Extreme VB over to a couple friends and in 2006 took it over again.
The site needed an upgrade and a general house cleaning of old posts and files that were no longer relevant. The old site is still accessible for archival purposes. All the files, posts and everything else can still be viewed and downloaded. I only imported the posts that were submitted in the last 2 years so if you want to view older content head over to http://old.extreme-vb.net.
I will be importing the files for the next couple weeks. I will also have a way for users to upload there files by attaching them to news stories that are submitted.
I hope to bring back Extreme VB and .Net back to prominence like it once was.
Just a quick note. If you had a user account you’ll need to register again. There was simply no way to make passwords compatible. I do apologize to all the users that have to register again.
Thanks to everyone that has been here for a long time, you are the ones that make Extreme VB and .Net great, and welcome to the new people.
Thank you,
Bob
ReSharper 3.0: new C# productivity features, VB.NET support and more.
The release, spearheaded by a major expansion into new languages, offers full-featured support for Visual Basic .NET, XML and XAML, backed by comprehensive cross-language functionality. It also brings a host of new productivity-enhancing features such as a more in-depth code analysis for C#, a superior unit testing solution, efficient handling of to-do lists, plus new navigation and search commands.
FileView.Net Control 7.1 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like listview to your application complete with Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming.
It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality that takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like filtering, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and dragdrop control and customization of default contextmenus, displaynames, icons and infotips.
I have been working on my vbGORE engine for quite a while now, and have finally got to the point where I am comfortable releasing the first version. A list of all the features can be found here and all the screenshots here.
vbGORE is an Online RPG engine designed for performance and optimization rather then ease-of-use like most all the ORPG engines out in Visual Basic. It includes many things you will not find in most all other VB ORPG engines such as byte array packet sending/handling with Winsock API, complete DirectX 8 interface, in-game mailing and much more. This project is far from finished, but is far enough to do most of the basic to intermediate Online RPG functions such as walk, talk, cast spells, fight NPCs, buy/equipt items, raise stats, etc.
uCertify, a market leader in IT certification exam preparation solutions, today announced the release of its upgraded Exam Simulation PrepKit for MCSD certification exam 70-305. This exam is intended for the individuals seeking MCSD.NET and MCAD certifications.