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A lot of folks have asked me for information on how to publish a LightSwitch application to IIS6. With the help of a couple team members we finally got the steps written down. This is a follow up to the detailed IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 deployment guide which you should familiarize yourself with first...

Visual Studio LightSwitch makes it easy to create and model database tables using the Data Designer . With this designer you have a simple interface into the Tables, Columns and Relationships that make up your data model. When you create tables this way, under the covers LightSwitch creates a SQL Express...

Jason Zander just announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1! The download is available today for MSDN subscribers and will be made available to the general public on Thursday March 10th. This release addresses customer reported bug fixes as well as some feature updates. Some...

Product teams have been releasing samples online on Code Gallery since Visual Studio has been released. This allows us to get samples out the door outside of the normal VS ship-cycle. So what you see “in-box” (a.k.a on the install disk) is only a subset of samples that we release. If you have an internet...

Now that I’ve been writing code for a while with the latest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, I’m at the point where I’ve seen the fun new language features in a variety of applications and samples. One of these fun new features is multi-line and statement lambdas. I favor lambdas anytime...

The other day a good friend of mine asked me if it was possible to send appointments created in Outlook into a SharePoint calendar list. It’s easy enough to grab this data from Outlook by building an add-in with Visual Studio, but what also turned out to be really easy was sending this information to...

Last week we published an article by VB MVP Alessandro Del Sole on how to utilize a cool Windows 7 Task Bar feature from WPF. Well this week we published another one on Jump Lists and Ale has promised to deliver even more! So yesterday we added a dedicated page to the Visual Basic Developer Center that...

In this interview, I sit down with Stephen Peters , a developer on the Office client tools team in Visual Studio. Steve shows us a couple of tricks for how you can squeeze the best performance out of Office solutions built with Visual Studio (VSTO). He also shows how to finely control the way your custom...

Here on the Visual Studio BizApps team we’re always busy creating community content for our Dev Centers, Channel9, blogs and MSDN but since Visual Studio 2010 has launched we’ve gone into overdrive! I wanted to call out some of the content we’ve published since launch that you may find helpful as you...

Last week we gave the books page on the Visual Basic Developer Center a face lift and added some new books on Visual Basic 2010. In the featured section at the top we have Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed by VB MVP Alessandro Del Sole . Alessandro graciously donated 2 free chapters that you can also download...

Come over to Foothill college on Saturday May 15th for a full day, two track education day with an all-star Microsoft cast. I’ll be there speaking on OData, Office and SharePoint development in Visual Studio 2010. We’ve also got some folks from the languages team coming to show off what’s new in VB,...

I'm back with Boris Scholl, the Program Manager who designed the BDC Model designer in Visual Studio 2010. Boris is a SharePoint expert, and in this interview he shares some tips and tricks having to do with BDC model deployment to SharePoint 2010. He provides insight into what the designer is doing...

I’ve written about collection initializers here on this blog before , but I thought I’d catch up with the VB Team to tell me more about how they really work. In this interview Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB Compiler team, shows us a couple of new language features: Array and Collection Initializers...

This week I have a couple interviews that released to the web. The first one is a short video with Eric Hagan from the DZone .NET community where I talk about some of my favorite features in Visual Studio 2010 and the languages: Beth Massi on Visual Studio 2010; New Features in VB, C# The second interview...

I just saw a tweet from Rob Windsor, VB MVP that he produced some How Do I videos on SharePoint and they were released on MSDN. Rob is an excellent trainer so I highly recommend them: How Do I: Use the SharePoint 2010 Object Models? How Do I: Build a SharePoint Feature with Visual Studio 2010? We also...

Last post I talked about how you can create your own WCF data services (OData) and use PowerPivot to do some powerful analysis inside Excel 2010 as well as how to use the new sparklines feature. If you missed it: Add Spark to Your OData: Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 1 In this post I want...

In this interview I caught up with a good friend, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on my team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 for web parts. He discusses the differences between "Visual Web Part" and "Web Part"...

OData is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web . Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now called WCF Data Services in .NET. I’ve written about it in the context of .NET many times on this blog. However there are SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript...

“Back to the future” as Todd put it. That’s right, the Interop Forms Toolkit has been updated to support Visual Studio 2010. This was just a minor release in which the setup authoring was updated so that the toolkit now supports both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. The toolkit features...

Tonight I’m going to give a preview of my Visual Studio 2010 launch demo on the new SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2010 including some Office client tools. This is basically the talk I did at TechDays in Belgium but much more focused on the Visual Studio developer who is just starting...

Whooo hooooo! It’s been ~2 years in the making but Visual Studio 2010 has been released ! This is my first full product cycle since I started Microsoft and oh what a ride! I’ve been watching live interviews from the Vegas launch event all day on Channel 9 . I’m really pumped about all the awesome resources...

Jet lag, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. That’s been my week so far preparing all the awesome content we have in store for you for Monday’s Visual Studio 2010 launch! Unfortunately this week has also taken me away from blogging and I have some fun stories from DevDays Netherlands and TechDays Belgium where...

DevTeach is finally winding down and my sessions are all done. It’s been a great conference, as always. I have been speaking at DevTeach since the second year and it’s always a great time chatting with Canadians about software development. This year I had the pleasure of kicking off the conference on...

In this month’s issue of MSDN Magazine we’ve got an article on a new language/.NET 4 feature called Generic Co- and Contravariance by Binyam Kelile: MSDN Magazine: Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010 I have to admit if I think about this feature too hard my head starts spinning in circles...

Teams here at Microsoft have been cranking on a bunch of samples for the next releases of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Office, SharePoint, Expression, WPF & Silverlight and I’ve been on the hunt to find some favorites and roll them up here. I haven’t played with all of these but depending on what...