The VB Team will be at Tech Ed in Orlando in a few weeks. If you are going to be there then check this out to meet with the team.

For those of you working in smaller shops (under 5 developers) check out Rick LaPlante's blog entry about including a 5 seat license for Team Foundation Server with each of the Team Editions of Visual Studio 2005. This makes the great advantages of...

I have to admit that My was not in the top three features of Visual Basic 2005/Visual Studio 2005 that got me excited when I first started looking at the list. In fact, dare I say, I might even ranked it toward the bottom. Let me explain, I have been...

What does cutting your grass and defensive coding have to do with each other? Give me a second to tell a real life story. A week and a half ago my wife and I closed on our new house here in the Seattle area. The house had a wonderfully landscaped ...

Ok, so I am a bit slow on this one, but if you have not already watched the special 50th episode of the .NET show check it out here . In this special 50th episode of the .NET Show, Rick Rashid, Brad Abrams, John Shewchuk, and Michael Wallent discuss...

Since lots of VB application access SQL Server for their data store I thought it was worth wild to point out the SP4 was release for SQL Server today. You can download it here . Some highlevel information about the changes: SQL Server 2000 SP4:...

One of the things I love about Visual Basic is that the syntax is similar to natural language. This basic design make the code so much easier to read and elegant to me. These are often words used to describe C or C#, but beauty is in the eye of the...

I have been playing with the latest builds of Visual Studio 2005 over the past few weeks but it has been mostly playing with new development of samples and demos. Today I spent some time upgrading some code I had written in Visual Basic 2003 before I...