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Stuck in a VB.NET Ghetto

At a recent trinug user group meeting, Richard Hale Shaw was going off on a tirade about how Visual Basic 6 was “the ultimate anti-pattern.” I don’t disagree. VB6 had some serious issues, many of which .NET resolves. Then he put a question to the audience: “What specific things

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An ASP.NET CAPTCHA Server Control

A few days ago, I found a really cool CAPTCHA ASP.NET code sample. I converted it to VB.NET and repackaged it as a full blown ASP.NET server control: It’s as simple as I could make it: a total drag and drop, set the (three) properties and

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VB vs. C# - FIGHT!

If I see one more blog entry complaining about VB's verbosity, or the elitism of C# developers, I think I'm gonna puke. Why can't we all just get along? Part of what makes the .NET Runtime unique is that it offers you a choice

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