Robert Green's Visual Basic Blog

Word on the street (or at least in the hallways) is that MSDN subscribers should have access to the Tech Preview for download sometime this week. Look for it. Pass it on.

When I am at work I mostly listen to Groove Salad on ITunes Radio (Occasionally gets a little too slow but generally quite good.) Thumpradio (House, Trance, Psychadelic, etc. Great for Friday afternoon. Nothing like a mix party in your office...

I met with Joe Wikert, the publisher of Wrox yesterday. Wiley purchased the Wrox name and some of the Wrox titles last year. Wrox is relaunching in June. They have new versions of some existing books coming out and they are planning a series of Whidbey...

At VSLive this week we handed out the first VS 2005 Community Tech Preview. This is our first updated bits since the PDC Tech Preview and represents more than 6 months of coding. The Community Tech Preview is not the same quality as a Beta. It is more...

Duncan and I are putting together a list of VB talks. The list will live on the VB Dev Center for all to see. We obviously know about the conferences and user groups that we will be speaking at, but we don't know about all the other VB happenings around...

Lots happening, both soon and in the near future. Next week is VSLive! San Francisco ( http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2004/sf/ ). Bill Gates is doing the keynote on Wednesday. After that we have the .NET Architecture Day. The talks are...

This morning, I posted What's in a name? where I discussed the new announced name for Visual Studio. I mentioned that we had been asked what to call ASP.NET “Whidbey“. I said I would ask the ASP team and report back. 10 minutes later I got...

Visual Studio 2005 .NET Framework 2.0 ASP.NET 2.0 For context, see the post below.

You probably already know this, but Visual Studio “Whidbey” is not going to be the official name of the next version of Visual Studio. Turns out it will be Visual Studio Whidbey, same name just no quotes. Isn't that funny? I just made that...

The .NET Developer Association meets on campus 3 Mondays a month. There is a monthly General meeting, a monthly Web meeting and an alternating Beginner/Database meeting. The group used to be a VB user group but changed to a .NET user group awhile back...

Go ahead. Hate me. Everyone at work I have talked to about our ski trip hates me. 3 feet of snow last week is why. 3 feet of fluffy, soft, beautiful and very forgiving Utah powder over the course of the week. We arrived Friday night and skiied Deer...