August 2006 Entries
As some may have noticed, the quantity of my blogging output has dropped precipitously in the past few months. This hasn't been due to a lack of interest in blogging, instead several big things have been going on in my life that have conspired to limit the available time for blogging. One of the "big things" is some new stuff I've been heads-down on doing while I'm at work and which I'll talk about over time as it becomes more solid and public. But work aside, there is also a "big thing" going on in my personal life that's going...
This is, unfortunately, only a test post to ensure that only posts tagged as "Visual Basic" are posted to the MSDN Visual Basic developer center. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.....
My blog is syndicated on the MSDN Visual Basic developer center (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vb), which is great because it drives traffic here but is bad because it means that all my personal posts show up there as well. I don't think everyone who goes to the developer center really cares that much about my personal life... After a little hacking on .Text, I think I've got it set up properly such that only posts tagged as "Visual Basic" will show up in the VB developer center. So, I hope, this post won't show up there. If it doesn't, then I'll test it...
Despite the fact that we made what I still feel is a solid release, we've been clearly seeing some customers having problems with the performance of the VB 2005 compiler when used on large VB projects. In response to a number of problems that we've isolated, we've released a QFE that addresses many of the major problems people are having. To quote the announcement in the forums: We've received feedback, both directly from developers and in the forums, regarding slow performance of the Visual Basic 2005 IDE in certain situations (larger projects, projects with many errors, etc.). I’m sorry that...