http://www.osnews.com/story/15796/Using_the_My_Feature_in_Visual_Basic_NET Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 14:46:05 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?161219 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161219 Informative article. I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).

I did a lot of work in VB and loved how quickly one could create programs. I also hated it in certain regards (any VB programmer will know why).

VB.NET provides a great mix. best of both worlds - rapid application development while having maintainable, expandable OOP code. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lazywally) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161282 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161282 It makes things more personal
I always felt it made things more childish. Especially in a business setting it didn't give me the idea of Windows being a serious OS.
Reminds me of a couple of kids going "Mine! Mine!" fighting over toys. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161283 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161283 I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).

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Really? I always found it needlessly condescending towards the user. As if the OS was talking for the person using the computer. Makes me feel like I'm co-opted. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161286 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161286 "my" is a nice short prefix for stuff, very handy. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TDavis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161295 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161295 Informative article. I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).

Totally agree. It serves as a really useful, common point of reference...especially when remote assisting a user.

It's easy to get peeps to gravitate to it. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Harald) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161301 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161301 The My-stuff in vb.net is great

Shortcuts only, but still great, Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (duckie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161305 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161305 "The difference between the sugary gooey foods you might eat and the My feature is that My is better for you."

Eugenia, hear this? Program in VB and your diet will go better Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eosp) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161319 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161319 I always felt it made things more childish. Especially in a business setting it didn't give me the idea of Windows being a serious OS.
Reminds me of a couple of kids going "Mine! Mine!" fighting over toys.

Same here.
The "My" stuff is dropped in Vista, last time I checked. "Documents", "Pictures" instead of "My documents", etc. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dimosd) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161342 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161342 You're right, the 'MyX' has been droped for 'X', also I believe the default short cut in the open dialog is now one level above the original MyDocuments. Personally I wish they would leave it alone, now that we've got used to it why change. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snowflake) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?161377 http://www.osnews.com/thread?161377 ...see an icon that said "Documents", "Music," etc. I don't need to be constantly reminded that they're mine; I'm not that stupid even if ninety-nine percent of the people on the planet were (and they aren't). Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments