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My name is Andrew Sutton, aka Shandy.

I am currently living and working in the UK within the garment industry as an IT specialist. This blog contains mainly IT related issues.

I was a Microsoft VB MVP for a couple of years (Apr 2004-Mar 2006) and was a vbCity Leader between April 2003 and June 2007.

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Finally : A .NET Project At Work

After 7 years of "playing around" with VB.NET I have finally been given the go ahead to develop my next project in work in VB.NET.

We have still to iron out the details but in principal it has been agreed and we can purchase Visual Studio 2005. At some stage in the next few months we will also be looking to upgrade our servers from SQL Server 2000 to 2005.

So a lot of work to be done in the next few weeks as I need to refresh my knowledge as its been almost a couple of years since I used VB.NET on a regular basis and I have never used VB.NET 2005 except playing around with VB.NET 2005 Express over the last week or so.

posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:43 AM

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# re: Finally : A .NET Project At Work 3/2/2007 10:45 PM vb

Congrats man, I feel your excitement

# re: Finally : A .NET Project At Work 4/4/2007 12:28 PM Mark Lennox

SharpDevelop is a great alternative to Visual Studio - and its free!

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Why use VB? Its not too much of a jump to use C# and AFAIK the OO aspects of it are easier to use as they have been designed in rather than tacked on as in VB

Good luck!

# re: Finally : A .NET Project At Work 4/4/2007 12:34 PM Shandy

I tried SharpDevelop a while back but it lacked a lot of features I liked that were in VS. (I seem to remember that context sensitive help was missing and VB support poor)

I can program in C# to some degree but personally I prefer VB and at work we are all VB.Classic programmers so a switch to C# makes no economical sense.

# re: Finally : A .NET Project At Work 5/9/2007 11:45 AM Antony

Does it have a testing tools. I mean somthing that helps test you application. Recently I've found the interesting tool for testing but its status is beta and I thought may be VB.NET 2005 Express has such features.
The tool is here http://testingrelief.com/

# re: Finally : A .NET Project At Work 9/11/2007 4:54 PM kisi

Does it have a testing tools. I mean somthing that helps test you application

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