Visual Basic IDE Team Blog

This post was inspired by an MSDN Ladybug . However, it exposes a cool trick that you all might want to try! Consider the case that you want to make the Command Window item appear in the View menu itself (rather than in its current location in View...

This post has been moved to the following location: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/07/did-you-know-there-are-many-ways-to-insert-a-snippet-into-your-code-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx

Try our list of Frequently Asked Questions below to answer questions that you might have about code snippets. Don't see the one you need? Then add a comment to this blog or post to the Visual Basic Forum . We'd love to hear from you! 1) What...

Today is the official launch day of the new version of Visual Basic: This page links to the relevant information (how to get it, what's new, etc…) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ You can also download the FREE Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition...

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...

This post has been moved to the following location: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/08/did-you-know-you-can-unwind-the-call-stack-from-exceptions-bill-horst.aspx

Refactoring in Visual Basic 2005 In case you haven’t already heard, last Thursday (4/21) we announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005, a free version of Developer Express Inc.’s Refactor! product that supports Visual Basic 2005...

Create your own Code Snippets with the Visual Basic Snippet Editor Yesterday we posted the Visual Basic Snippet Editor, with source code, on http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vbsnippeteditor . The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application...

Some subtle changes were made in Visual Basic .Net 2005 to make code generation of overidden methods a little easier. In Visual Basic .Net 2003 and earlier, you used the code dropdowns as in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 When overriding a Sub, a declaration...

Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday the 19th at 1pm (PST). We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger. You can bring your own questions or just listen in on the discussion. Click here for more...

This request has been raised lately by folks working with XML, who want to create XML files without using a project. If a project is already open, then you can easily create a new file by right-clicking on the project, and selecting Add->New Item...

This post has been moved to the following location: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/04/25/working-with-shortcut-keys-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx

Last week in Los Angeles (Sept13-16), Microsoft hosted PDC0 5… the11 th Professional Developers Conference. The PDC is a conference to educate, inform and excite the developer community about the future of the Microsoft platform. The conference was sold...

Hi all, Ken Levy and I created a Channel9 video, which demonstrates the Code Snippets feature in VS2005. Click here to check out the 38min show. I've also blogged about this on the vbteam blog , so you can look there for more details. I hope...

Visual Studio has more toolbars and commands than any one person will likely need to use. That is why we ship a variety of development settings: so that you can select the developer profile most like you, and then we can tailor the environment to your...

Hi all, As of today, we are moving this blog to a new location . We've decided to merge our blogging efforts with the rest of the VB team, and thus are moving our posts to the VB Team blog . VS 2005 launches TODAY! Thus, the motivation behind merging...

Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday, July 28th, at 1pm (PST). We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger. You can bring your own questions or just listen in on the discussion. Click here for...