Brad McCabe's WebLog

So you might have been wondering, given that it's been oh... 4 years since my last blog post if I was still alive. The answer is yes. In fact I've been posting over on the MDOP blog . I've been on a bit of a journey after my time in VB/SQL/ASP.NET land...

The various Developer Evangelist from around the country will be delivering about 60 technical how to events showing the value of Visual Studio 2005. These events are pure technical content, no marketing fluff, delivered by noted speakers, authors...

Jacob Cynamon is kicking off a new WebCast series titled Visual Basic 2005 today to focus on what’s new in VB and how you can get up to with it. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/category/12739.aspx for a complete list of dates for the topics...

Early in the BETA period for Visual Studio 2005 we released a free online version of the MS Press book Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers . This book received great comments, but was written against BETA 1. We have had the authors...

Do you like to have an impact on the lives of professional developers? If so check out Jay Roxe's entry about various open positions he has.

DeveloperPipeline has recently posted a chat with Software Legend Jackie Goldstein about Visual Basic migration. You can check out the chat here . The summary is posted below: .NET Migration: In-House or Outsource? If your development team is getting...

I have been asked to pass long some information to folks. If you are interested in taking some of the new Microsoft Certification Courses in BETA check out the information below. The registration period has been extended for a few more days until the...

I have been asked to pass long some information to folks. If you are interested in taking some of the new Microsoft Certification Courses in BETA check out the information below. The registration period has been extended for a few more days until the...

The VB team has release a new version of the LINQ preview bits. You can download the January preview and check out the latest MSDN TV episode on link at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Future/default.aspx . For those of you unsure of what LINQ is, it...

This sounds like a cool event for web developers, here is the marketing blurb: Attend the MIX conference, a LIVE! conversation between web developers, designers and business leaders, being held in Las Vegas from March 20 - 22 at the Venetian hotel...

Also new out from the patterns and practices group is a set of upgrade guidance for Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005 (and 2003) . You can find everything here but below is short overview of what you can get. Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic...

The patterns and practices team has just released a new Composite UI Application Block. Below is a short summary, or you can get more information here . The Composite UI Application Block December 2005 Release is a source code-based component built...

With the holiday’s coming lots of people have some extra time on their hands, with this in mind MSDN and Microsoft Learning got to together to give you something to do, free training! We were trying to figure out what course to give away and decided to...

The Visual Basic team blog has posted a good entry about Edit and Continue and Rude Edits . Edit and Continue was reintroduced with Visual Basic/Visual Studio 2005.

When we rolled out the new Developer Center pages with the VS 2005 launch last week one of things that we deployed was a couple of reporting tools that we are doing a comparison and analyses of. One of the most interesting reports to me was a report that...

Duncan MacKenzie has posted links to some really good VB 6.0 to .NET Podcasts that he found. You can check them out here .

You should install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine, that is one that did not have a prior BETA or CTP installed on it. This is not possible for everyone and there are many people that had prior builds installed. Dan Fernandez...

The first Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 has been released. According to the downloads page it contains: The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest...

New on the ASP.NET site today is a cool thing for deployment -- Web Deployment projects. (Download here .) This is an add-in VS project type that manages an MSBuild file and lets manage you all sorts of build configurations, pre- and post-processing,...

It’s official, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now launched. Not only can the general public purchase both of these products, but the trial downloads are available as well as the no-cost Express downloads . As part of the launch MSDN...

Now that Visual Studio is gold and has been RTMed if you are working with the LINQ preview you will need to update your machine to a newer build of LINQ. You can grab the bits from here .

Visual Studio 2005 (Standard, Pro, and Express versions) and SQL Server 20005 has been released and are avaialbe for download for MSDN subscribers . For a good overview of the new features in Visual Basic 2005 check out Ken Getz's article . For more...

The VB team has posted a new video on Channel9 about Code Snippets in VS2005. Click here to check out the 38min show. Here are some of the exciting topics that you can look forward to hearing about: What code snippets are and why they were...

There is an upcoming chat on the VB 9.0 language enhancements: Visual Basic 9.0 Language Enhancements Description: Have you been hearing and reading about many of the exciting new features being planned for a future version of VB beyond the new...

November 7th and the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk 2006 is getting close. If you are looking to learn about any of these products but have been unable to convince your boss to send you to the global launch event in San Francisco...