One of the tasks I find to be annoying during development is pasting GUID’s into my code. You need GUID’s for lots of different functions (COM, Constants, etc …). GuidGen is a good tool for getting the Guid into your code. However I don’t insert GUID’s very often. Everytime I do, I find I’ve forgotten where the tool is. Then I go through the process of locating it and getting my GUID out.

The Expression Evaluator is a VSIP component that allows Visual Studio Languages to plug in a Debugger. It’s what controls the information inside the locals,watch,auto, stack frame and immediate windows during a debugging session. Both VB and C# use this API to plug in their debugger displays to Visual Studio.

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One of the features I implemented for VB 9.0 is lexical closure support. This a great addition to the VB language and I wanted to do a series of blog posts to describe this feature and how it will impact your code.