Welcome to the Visual Basic IDE Blog. This blog is hosted by the program managers, developers, and testers who work on the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (VB IDE). My name is Lisa Feigenbaum, and I am a Program Manager on the Team...

Things are coming together for our Philadelphia Code Camp event, to be held on April 23rd and 24th at the Community College of Philadelphia! We have around 60 sessions and 40 speakers in our six tracks, as well as 50 machines in our proctored Hands-on...

...to WeProgram.net, I go... Had quite the adventure yesterday getting to the WeProgram.net User Group (aka Southern Virginia .net User Group) in Hampton Roads, VA last night. I was scheduled for a 6:30pm arrival time, and left early to give myself...

A preview of the WinFX SDK was released last week, and Dominic Cooney has used F# to show how to write a little hello-world Avalon application . It's also available on the F# Wiki page under Code Snippets . As an aside, Dominic notes the following...

Recently I’ve heard Archive.org name dropped by a few friends of mine, especially in regard to their live music archive . I checked it out, and I can say that I’m very impressed. For a long time lots of bands, mostly of the jam band variety, have allowed...

The first of Joc's series of posts on going "off-road" with the dynamic analysis tools has been posted. This post covers the basics of collecting code coverage information outside of the test framework. This is a must-read if you want to work with code...

Brian Gregor (equipo de soporte) esta trabajando en una herrmienta para monitorear los eventos suspendidos en BizTalk. Lo interesante esta en que puedes monitorear una o varias maquinas, local o remotamente. Lo que hace básicamente es monitorear los eventos...

My best friend's boyfriend's cousin said she heard it passed out in the 31 flavors last night. Guess it's pretty bad. Yep this is awful. It has to be the most under-served, and one of the most desirable, features in enterprise applications...YET, there...

I thought I would share this news about a cool .NET application..... Canadian Geographic finds place on the Net - Rebecca Reid - itworldcanada.com, April 7 2005 If you’ve ever wondered where the Boreal Shield is located — or you just need to...

The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) version 4.0 for Windows XP, including Service Pack 2, and Windows Server 2003 contains the tools and documentation you need to evaluate and mitigate application compatibility issues before deploying...

Information on the security updates Microsoft is releasing for April, and more, is available at the new Microsoft Security Response Center blog . Bookmark it, if you want to keep up-to-date on Microsoft security.

I have talked about LOCALE_INVARIANT / CultureInfo . InvariantCulture before, in Comparison confusion: INVARIANT vs. ORDINAL and Where is the locale? "Its Invariant." In where ? and talked a little about the if not noble then at least deterministic intent...