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Kinect SDK v1.5 - Now with VB Samples !!!
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As developers start to realize the full potential of Microsoft Kinect and new hardware is made available for the PC it’s really great to see the Kinect team provide some sample support for VB developers. For a while the Compilers team (who handle...
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Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11, now available for .NET 4 and Silverlight 5
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0 months ago
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If you’ve held off trying Visual Studio 11 Beta because your .NET 4 or Silverlight 5 app uses the Async CTP, your wait is over! Today we’ve published the Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11 , a NuGet package that lets your Visual...
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Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!
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2 months ago
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As you may have read in Jason’s announcement , today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download . This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a...
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New VB XNA Sample - showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting
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5 months ago
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For all those who have started venturing into developing windows phone applications, there are quite a few samples utilizing Silverlight, but the XNA content has been a little bit light. (We are working on getting some more XNA VB samples online). ...
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VB Support for Microsoft Surface 2.0
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6 months ago
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Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough. For those who desire bigger touch screens, Microsoft surface may be the answer. Microsoft surface has been around a while...
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Roslyn Syntax Visualizers
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6 months ago
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Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP . I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try . To recap – in the Roslyn CTP, we are previewing a powerful...
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Putting back functionality left out of VB Core - ( If you can't live without Mid when writing WP7 apps ;-) )
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6 months ago
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For development of windows phone applications a new feature was added to the Visual Basic compiler known as VB Core. This is a reduced version of the runtime designed to allow development for a broader variety of platforms without incurring the larger...
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Halloween: VB Style!
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6 months ago
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Imagine this. It’s Halloween. You’ve got a costume party to go to at 7 but there’s one small hiccup – you’ve got no costume. As a VB programmer you’re used to coming up with nick-of-time solutions to all manner of complex...
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Introducing the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP
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7 months ago
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(Begin dramatic movie trailer music, slow PowerPoint slide show with cliché sound effects) October 2006 –VB Architect-emeritus Paul Vick responds via his blog to question by some completely random VB customer named Anthony about bootstrapping...
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Announcement: Namespace Global
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7 months ago
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There’s a new feature coming to VB, and already included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview . The feature is called Namespace Global and it’ll make your life easier… if you part of your code belongs in a different namespace...
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Visual Basic (VB) Call Hierarchy
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8 months ago
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By Zain Naboulsi ( Blog ) Default: CTRL + ALT + K Menu: View | Call Hierarchy Command: View.CallHierarchy; EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ViewCallHierarchy Versions: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Languages: VB With the announcement...
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Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit - Updated with VB Source
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8 months ago
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An update to the training kit has been made providing Visual Basic developers with sample code for the development features of Dynamics CRM and help them build applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online. Download available at ...
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Updated Samples for WP7 Developers
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9 months ago
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For those VB developers who are developing (or keen to start developing) for WIndows Phone 7. The samples have been updated and as you'll notice virtually all of them are in both C# and VB. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx
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New Async Programming Video's
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9 months ago
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Some great new video's on MSDN showing how to do async programming using the Async CTP. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh378091.aspx There are different versions of video's for both VB and C#. This is a great opportunity to see the power...
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Temperature Monitoring using VB.Net, Micro-framework and a Netduino
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9 months ago
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Introduction As a bit of a geek, I like to tinker with basic gadgets. I often think of little ideas that would be great to implement but the device involves some hardware and very little software. As a software engineer I tend to think in terms of...
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Kinect SDK For PC - VB Samples available.
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11 months ago
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Today, Microsoft announced the Kinect SDK for PC http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx VB Samples are there at launch and available for downloading http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectSDKSamplesVB...
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Micro-framework v4.2 Support for Visual Basic
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11 months ago
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The release of .NET Micro framework v4.2 Beta brings Visual Basic support for the .NET Micro-framework. For those that have not heard of the Micro framework before “The .NET Micro Framework is .NET for small and resource constrained devices...
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VB Support for the XNA platform
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over 1 year ago
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With the release of the Mango Toolset, Visual Basic support for XNA and Windows Phone has now been added. VB resources include VB XNA documentation and VB WP7 code samples and starter kits and this post is intended to walk you through some of the...
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Happy 20th Birthday Visual Basic!
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over 1 year ago
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Twenty years ago , May 20 th , 1991 at Windows World, in Atlanta, Microsoft founder Bill Gates demoed Visual Basic 1.0 . Twenty years later, the 10 th version of this latest in an unbroken line of Microsoft BASIC languages stretching back to Microsoft’s...
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Simultaneous Async Tasks (Alan Berman)
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over 1 year ago
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The new Async feature in the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) provides an elegantly simple technique to make code asynchronous. Our writing team uses an internal app that would benefit from asynchronous calls. For each URL contained in the MSDN...
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The Temple of VB (Matt Gertz)
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over 1 year ago
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Hi, all! It's been a while since I've posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then. Though I've been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off last summer to do some traveling and, more importantly...
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WebMatrix Series #1: How to Create Visual Basic Websites Using WebMatrix
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over 1 year ago
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Microsoft WebMatrix is an exciting new product that makes the creation of custom ASP.NET Web sites possible without all the complexity of the full Visual Studio environment. WebMatrix supports web site development in both C# and Visual Basic. In this...
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Silverlight 4 Firestarter Series #3: How to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight
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over 1 year ago
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I am back with details on how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight. In this walkthrough, we will see how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls to create a Data-Driven Silverlight Interface. During this walkthrough we will cover...
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Silverlight 4 Firestarter Series #2: How to migrate an ASP.NET Web Forms Application to Silverlight
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over 1 year ago
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In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing ASP.NET/jQuery application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight. Here are some topics that we will cover: How to use the Visual...
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Silverlight 4 Firestarter Series #1: How to migrate a Visual Basic Windows Form Application to Silverlight
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over 1 year ago
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In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing Windows Forms application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight. Also in the process of conversion we will ensure that the existing functionality...
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