Mick Alberts and I have created a series of getting started videos for Visual Basic and C#.  The first set of videos correspond to the getting started tutorial: Tutorial 1: Create a Picture Viewer .  If you’re new to Visual Basic or C# development, these tutorials give you a great start. You...

In this introductory video, you will learn about the Visual Studio 2010 code generation features that enable testers to create coded UI tests. Watch the video: Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 This video is based on a a step-by-step Hands-on Lab. See the Instructions...

Brian Keller has posted information on downloading a virtual machine containing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, along with sample data and a series of hands-on labs (HOLs) to get you started with the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities...

In the following videos, programming writer Steve Stein demonstrates the new drag and drop data binding features in Visual Studio 2010 for working with Silverlight applications. See the video: Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the corresponding blog post that you can follow...

In this video, Ryan Linton (a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team), walks us through a demo on how to enable Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell. Watch the video: Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) You can find more details in the Help topic...

In this video interview, Gordon Hogenson explains lists in F# and demos the functionality. You can also learn more in the topic Lists (F#) . See the video: Lists in F# --Kathleen

I interviewed Mark D’Urso, a Senior Development Lead on the Library Experience team, about the new views available in the MSDN Library: Lightweight view ScriptFree view Classic view Watch the video: New MSDN Library Views --Kathleen

I recently interviewed Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience team, about the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. He demonstrates the new browser-based Help viewer, and how you can update content locally. Watch the video: Microsoft Help Viewer --Kathleen

In this video interview, Gordon Hogenson explains discriminated unions in F# and demos the functionality. You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#) See the video: Discriminated Unions in F# --Kathleen

In Part II of my interview with Norm Estabrook, he shows us how to create a Web Part using Visual Studio. This demo is based on his Help topic: Walkthrough: Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer . See the video: Creating a Web Part Using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 --Kathleen

Mick Alberts, a technical editor on the Visual Studio User Education team, created a video demo about embedding type information into an application that uses Automation objects from Microsoft Office. This video is based on a Visual Studio Help topic . Take a look at the video: Embedding Type Information...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I continue showing you new features by interviewing writers on User Education team. Since I’m at the SharePoint conference, it seems fitting to start out with a SharePoint demo. In this video, Norm Estrabrook shows you how to create an external list in...

In this video demo, I show you how to add text to a document and then convert it to a table, without using all sixteen parameters that are possible with the ConvertToTable method.  See the Video: How to Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming (C#)     You can learn more...

As a continuation of featuring data binding in WPF, this is part 2 of an interview with McLean Schofield, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team. In this interview, he demonstrates the steps in his Help topic on how to bind WPF controls to an entity data model. See the Video...

This week’s featured topic is Lambda Expressions in C++ . I interviewed Thomas Petchel, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, who describes the new Lambda Expressions in C++ and demonstrates how to use them instead of using function pointers and function objects. See the Video...

This week, I’m featuring the topic Walkthrough: Copying a document to the end user computer after a ClickOnce Installation of an Office solution . As a continuation of an earlier interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office solution and implement a post-deployment action...

As a continuation of featuring patterns in F#, this is part 2 of an interview with programming writer, Gordon Hogenson. In this interview he describes Active Patterns , which can be used to customize and extend F#’s pattern matching capabilities.  See the Video: Active Patterns     --Kathleen

This week, I’m featuring the topics: Patterns and Match Expressions .  I interviewed Gordon Hogenson, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, who walks us through some of standard patterns in F#, and he also explains the use of the match expression to control branching based...

This week I'm featuring the topic Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio . In a video interview, Programming Writer, McLean Schofield, walks us through the topic, and demos how to drag items from the Data Sources window onto the WPF Designer. He also describes the XAML and code that is added behind...

The Visual Basic team has posted a series of video interviews (as well as written interviews) with developers who use Visual Basic to build their applications. At this year's MVP summit, I followed Beth Massi , with my video camera in hand, as she interviewed several Visual Basic MVPs to learn about...

The featured Visual Studio 2010 Help topic this week is What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor . In a video interview, Leith McCombs walks us through some of the new features in the editor. See the Video: Visual Studio 2010 Editor   --Kathleen

This week, I'm featuring implicit line continuation in the Help topic Statements in Visual Basic . This is the second part of the interview I did with Doug Rothaus. Implicit line continuation is a new (and frequently asked for) feature in Visual Basic 2010. Check out the Video: implicit Line Continuation...

This week, I'm featuring the topic Auto-Implemented Properties , which enables you to quickly specify a property of a class without having to write code to Get and Set the property. I recently interviewed Doug Rothaus, the author of this topic, to learn more about this feature. See the Video: Auto...

This week, I’m featuring the topic: Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer . This topic describes how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process. For example, you can now publish both an...

This week, I'm highlighting the Visual Studio help topic: Walkthrough: Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio .  This topic gives a great introduction to some of the features and syntax of F#.  I've also created a video that takes you through some of the basics. I show you how to...