March, 2009

Things are always changing. I was at the Washington State History Museum with my daughter a couple weeks ago. One of the exhibits features pictures of various sites that were taken many years ago. Then it contrasts them with contemporary pictures taken...

In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files. In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat : As I mentioned in the first post...

When you have a question about how an API works, most of you will look in the MSDN Library .  There are some tips and tricks to finding what you need in this vast resource.  First of all, there are two main ways you can read the content in the...

The results from InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards are in. Visual Studio 2008 was voted Best IDE, with the following commentary: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications...

The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code. Please follow the links to view these samples for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 . Silverlight 2: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/toolkitcontrolsamples/run...

Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com...

Be sure to check out the latest episode of CodeCast with two VB interviews, including myself and VB program manager Dustin Campbell! Thursday, February 19, 2009 CodeCast Episode 12: Visual Basic and the VB Community In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy...

Today the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team released a download aimed to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. It includes VB versions of the QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To topics: http://www.microsoft.com...

Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview...

Alex Turner presented VB XML yesterday here at MIX 09. Check out the video from his session! Video link: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T72M (The powerpoint slides are attached.) Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 MIX09...

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview . This time it's with Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team. Here he demonstrates how line termination has changed in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation...

MIX 09 is here! ScottGu kicks off the keynote today at 9am PST. Below is the list of Visual Studio related sessions. The full conference list is posted here . Didn't buy a pass? Don't worry. Tune in to http://2009.visitmix.com to watch sessions live,...

Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps . At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that...