I’m reading this morning that OpenSilver has support for VB.NET on their roadmap. OpenSilver is an open-source reimplementation of Silverlight using WebAssembly to help developers who have Silverlight code-bases. This quote from Userware (the CEO of the company behind OpenSilver) is spot on:

So I guess we are supposed to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of .NET this week. I found the Twitter hashtag that we are supposed to be using particularly grating: #dotNETLovesMe

Lots of female programmers have suggested that they they don’t feel that the profession is very inclusive. Personally I’ve never had an issue as a woman, but I do run into this a lot:

Today I ran into a strange problem with a complex form that in ASP.NET WebForms. My form is using Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX, and has (among other things), two RadAsyncUpload controls and two RadListView controls. The form had previously worked successfully but after adding the second RadListView control we noticed that the first RadListView control wasn’t getting populated in some circumstances.

I don’t generally follow information about new language features in C#, since my goal is to never use it. But I learned about C# Records from watching this video on www.60second.dev, and was thinking that would be a cool feature for VB too. Good news – according to the documentation here, this is a planned feature for RemObjects Mercury as well. Excellent!

Visual Studio Magazine reports on two new reports on language and technology usage that Visual Basic is a top in-demand programming language in 2021, above C#.

I had completely forgotten about the Option Infer feature in Visual Basic, but noticed it the other day when I was checking some other settings.