I'm in Las Vegas, attending the Mix 07 Conference. Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced Silverlight (a cross-platform, cross-browser run-time). At the keynote, Ray Ozzie announced that .NET technology is being brought to Silverlight. Silverlight now gives...

The next three webcasts from the Visual Basic team will focus on LINQ, building N-Tier applications and offline data caching. Live From Redmond: VB9 – LINQ to SQL & O/R Designer Deep Dive ( May 2 at 9:00 AM ). In this Webcast, Young Joo shows...

Join Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs as they describe OBAs and how they relate to VSTO in this Podcast . The podcast is 8 minutes long and 7.5 MB in size. Steve Fox Paul Stubbs You can learn more about OBA on the VSTO blog . --Kathleen

Harry Miller gives a quick overview of the basics of VSTA. This video uses a sample application called ShapeApp, which is included in the VSTA SDK, to demonstrate the VSTA IDE and macro recording. You can get more information about VSTA on the VSTA Developer...

The Visual Basic team is launching a series of Webcasts called "Live from Redmond". This series will focus on features in the next version of Visual Basic code named "Orcas". The first two Webcasts in the series are listed below. John Stallo starts...

Learn how to add buttons to the Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon in Word 2007 that enable you to interact with the document. This Visual How to provides a link to the documentation in the MSDN libary as well as a corresponding video. Enjoy! --Kathleen

Check out the new Visual How to video and learn how to add a task pane to applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system using VSTO 2005 SE. The Visual How to also has links to corresponding documentation in the MSDN Library. Want to see more Visual...