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Visual Studio 2010 Extension: DIC CodeAid

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I'm happy to inform you of my first Visual Studio Extension.

DIC CodeAid

Download from the Visual Studio Gallery Page
Or via VS2010 Extension Manager


Adds Copy Code with DIC CodeTags into Tools Menu

1. Select you section of code.
2. Tools -> Copy Code with DIC CodeTags
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(AsyncCTP) Sequence Operators

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Taking inspiration from Raynes Functional Challenge.

Using the iterator functionality of the AsyncCTP of vb.net, I have reimplemented the standard sequence operators (LINQ).

Map
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Why so fast?

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The following quotes from thePrevious Blog






Why is so fast?
If anyone spotted why it is before this blog post, my hats off to you.
Notable Mention: atraub (See Here)

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VB.Net entry for the JAVA Challenge.

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I saw this Java Challenge in the Java Programming section and though it would be a good idea to implement it vb.net. Both as challenge and a comparison of the JVM and .Net VMs
The solution and testing environment consists of 3 separate projects.

1. The Interface
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LISP in VB.NET (Part 1)

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As an excerise I thought I'd have a go at writing a lisp interpreter in vb.net.

Screen Shot of the REPL in action


At the moment it can evaluate the basic Mathematical Function + - / * of both integer and doubles.
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Code Revision: LINQ, XML Literals (& Collection of Resources)

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Recently in the vb.net forum there as been a few questions related to LINQ and XML.
So I've but together this blog post to serve as a quick revision and also to collate some of the resource you'll find useful.
LINQ

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Queries

Let just delve straight in with an example.
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Playing Cards & Poker Hands (Async CTP)

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It seems that Poker is a popular card game for programmers.
So I show you a version which utilises some aspects of the VB.net Async CTP

Let's begin by define a Playing Card Structure.
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Project: VS Quick Look

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You every had that problem where you are looking for a particular piece of code, but you can't find the project it was in. Are they all named a derivation of WindowsApplication?? or ConsoleApplication??.

Tired opening each possible one in Visual Studio, and it (VS) take ages to loadup.

Then I have the program to assist you.

VS Quick Look...
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Custom Controls

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Here are a few controls I have created.
Transparent RichTextBox

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Loopy Abstract Thinking

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Imagine if the vb.net language didn't have a for loop, how could you implement one?
For x=0 To 10  'body of loopNext


You could implement one as a method.

[For](0,10, ...)
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