The October issue of MSDN Magazine just came out, and featured a focus on the Async language features coming in C# 5 and VB 11. Michael Desmond interviewed Mads Torgersen and me for the Editor’s note, which you can find here: http://msdn.microsoft.com...

Abhishek Kumar pulled together a great trip report for our team from TechEd. Lots of great resources below, that are available for on-demand viewing. Keynote: Keynote address was given by Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools...

I’ve presented a couple of times to the LinkedIn .NET User Group (LIDNUG) . You can find my latest presentation available on the Archives . Click here to download the recording. Excerpt is below. Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks by Lisa Feigenbaum Join...

  Earlier this month, I presented in Dubai at the second annual TechEd Middle East . TechEd was held under the patronage of the Crown Prince of Dubai , who also visited on-site. There were 20 primary countries represented, and it was an important...

Here’s a link to a CodeRadio podcast that I recorded with Ariel Ben-Horesh and Shay Friedman : http://www.coderadio.co.il/?p=48 You can find more information about Ariel on his blog . Shay is a C#/IronRuby MVP and author of IronRuby Unleashed . They asked...

Tonight at DevConnections , Senior Director Dave Mendlen announced that XNA support will be coming to Visual Basic. This is part of Microsoft’s co-evolution strategy , whereby we are providing equal access to Microsoft technologies for both C# and...

    Overview Last November (28-30), I presented at TechEd Israel 2010 . TechEd Israel is a good-sized event, with 3000 people in attendance this year (which is a huge number given the size of the country). There was a lot of focus on the Cloud...

I was asked to write a few book forewords this year. I’ve included the contents below. I hope you will read the forewords and check out the books! I’ve also written past excerpts for Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford and Visual Basic 2008 - Neue...

I often get asked for good VS 2010 book recommendations on the topics my team (VS Pro) is working on: C#, VB.NET, F#, VS IDE, VS Extensibility. Here are some recent titles to check out. You can also find a growing list on our MSDN developer centers: C#...

Join me March 24th at 10am PST for a Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks session on Linked In . This session will be presented over Live Meeting, and is organized by the Linked In .NET Developer User Group ( LIDNUG ). LIDNUG: Visual Studio 2010 Tips...

Jesse Liberty has a great podcast show called “Yet Another Podcast” . I spent some time with Jesse at the last PDC in Redmond, where we chatted about some recent releases: - Microsoft® Visual Basic® CTP for Windows® Phone Developer Tools: http://go.microsoft...

Contents: C# & VB Session | Ch9 Live Anders | Ch9 Live Async Team | Async CTP | Roslyn | F# Session | Languages Panel | Podcasts | Booth | Ask The Experts | Meet Anders and Don Professional Developers Conference 10 took place October 28-29 on Microsoft...

I’m taking a few posts to catch up on past events. Here’s a 6min video interview that I came across, which I recorded with Ed and Ashley at PDC 09. At that time, both were attending the event as students. I ran into them last month at TechReady 12, an...

After a busy month of travel, I finally made my way back to Seattle. As promised, here are the materials from all the talks and events. BASTA! in Mainz, Germany BASTA! is a third party conference, led by Software & Support Media GmbH. Software &...

We had a Japanese customer in town for training last week and I presented a 2.5hr training on Visual Studio 2010. It was fun to meet everyone and answer questions on the release! I promised to share the deck and have uploaded it to my blog . The code...

I recently completed an interview with Michael Desmond, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine at 1105 Media. Visual Studio Magazine had released a .NET Insight newsletter featuring in-depth coverage of the C# programming language, and wanted to follow...

I recently presented a “Lap Around VS 2010 for C# & VB Developers” presentation at Microsoft TechReady. TechReady is a semi-annual internal technical conference for Microsoft employees. (More info here: http://www.facebook.com/TechReady#!/TechReady...

Thanks for all the feedback on the Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters . We’ve released new versions to take into account your requested changes: - Create 8.5”x11” Letter-sized print-ready documents - Create 210x297mm A4-sized print-ready documents...

For those of you who enjoyed the 1st Productivity Power Tools release , be sure to download the latest version released this week! There are a number of changes, including requests from your comments on this blog. :) The most popular request was the ability...

It was a great week at Tech·Ed North America in New Orleans! The conference ended on Thursday, and there are lots of great recordings and resources now available on-demand. Below are a series of slides and videos from the Languages-related sessions at...

One of the great aspects of the Visual Studio 2010 release is the extensibility support. The VS 2010 Editor is re-written in WPF, providing rich IDE experiences in the box, as well as new extensibility APIs that enable the creation of more powerful extensions...

If you’re attending TechEd North America or one of the upcoming Languages user group tours , you’ll have an opportunity to score some cool Languages SWAG. :) However, we’ve also received requests from people wanting to order supplies...

Visual Basic XML Comments were first introduced in Visual Studio 2005. They can be used to create documentation for your project, and to provide a rich IDE experience for others using your code. For more information on XML Comments, please read my full...

Earlier this year Octavio Hernandez visited Microsoft campus and interviewed Group Program Manager Raj Pai about managed languages in Visual Studio 2010. Octavio is a Technical Editor for Spanish magazine DotNetMania and a C# MVP. The Spanish version...

Earlier this year, I presented at the 2010 Regional MVP Summit at MSIDC in Hyderabad, India. In addition to the Global Summit in Redmond , a number of international MVP Summits take place each year, to promote connections among local Microsoft Most Valuable...