Visual Basic "Learn" Section of MSDN - Give it a Spin5/9 article
The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and VS 2008 topics. If you look at the center of the page you'll see the list of topics and when you click one, you should now see some fresh stuff. Currently there's over 200 items presented on the topic pages and we're adding more every week. Right now each of the topics are displayed in a fixed order by content type (i.e. Webcast, Video, Article, Blog, etc.) but we plan on adding a tag cloud for easier navigation and more community features going forward so check back often. You can also subscribe to each of the content sections independently by clicking the RSS icon next to each heading.
IEquatable(Of T) and GetHashCode()5/9 article
This is a bit of a follow up to a previous post we discussed how to properly implement equality in VB. Several users commented/asked that IEquatable(Of T) could be used in place of overriding Equals(). Since IEquatable(Of T) doesn't define a GetHashCode() method the user didn't need to define it and hence run into all of the problems associated with GetHashCode() usage.