1. Juliette sends a message "I'll take a drug which makes me look dead but I'm not really" 2. Romeo receives the message 3. Romeo finds Juliette looking dead, but knows she's not really dead 4. They live happily ever after vs. 1. Juliette sends...

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This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . This time we have Doug Rothaus, a writer on the documentation side. Doug has blogged up an XML cookbook here on the team blog with a bunch...

I'm here at TechEd Barcelona, and the week has gotten off to a great start. Jason Zander did the keynote this afternoon, and announced lots of great tooling support that will be included in Visual Studio 2010! Exciting stuff. I have 4 sessions here...

In this short 10min video, I interview language architect Paul Vick about what industry trends he would think about while designing the Visual Basic language. Some of these trends have motivated features in the next version of the Visual Basic language...

"My dog has no type." "How does he smell?" " Awful! " Two of the new features of VB10 -- array literals and multi-line lambdas -- are interesting from the language perspective because their expressions have no type! This article is for language lawyers...

I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service...

In this video, I interviewed language architect Paul Vick about what new language features are coming in the next release of Visual Basic. We talked about auto-implemented properties, collection initializers, statement lambdas, removal of the line continuation...

Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Lucian Wischik, a Developer on the team. I'm just getting to know Lucian but he is a very interesting and bright person who is just a pleasure to talk...

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now publicly available! It's time to try out the features that you've been hearing about from the PDC. :) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655...

After you discover the PDC videos online , and you watch the Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic , you may wonder what other sessions this year's PDC has to offer for the VB developer... Lots! Here's a list of PDC sessions related to the VB...

I recently blogged about the new VB 2010 language features announced at PDC, as well as the video available from Paul and Lucian's "VB Futures" session . Another way to learn about the new features coming out in 2010 is by watching the following Channel9...

Last week at the Professional Developers Conference , the VB and C# teams held a special dinner in honor of the VB and C# MVPs in attendance. ("MVP" = Most Valued Professional ) It was a great opportunity to connect with folks, talk about the exciting...

This year at the Professional Developers Conference , there was a new trend called PDC badges. To fully understand the buzz, check out the following blog post and Channel9 video by Adam Kinney (badge extraordinaire): http://adamkinney.com/blog/366...

That's right... All sessions from last week's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles have been videotaped and made available for FREE on Channel9. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ Check it out and enjoy the conference. :) For photos...

Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead &...

Last week at the Professional Developers Conference , we made a number of very exciting announcements regarding the future of Visual Basic. Here is the list of VB 2010 features we've announced: Collection Initializers . Initialize collections in...

I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship. I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have...

This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . This time we have Adrian Bowles (who's nickname is Spotty), a Tester on the VB Compiler. Someday Spotty will have to tell us how he got...

This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . This time we have Sophia Salim, a Tester on the VB Compiler. I'm very happy to see Sophia reach out to the community and am looking forward...

Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole with John Stallo, a Program Manager working on RAD tools. I first met John on my interview loop at Microsoft. What immediately stuck me when I met him was his Italian name...

Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Eric Knox, Development Manager on the VB IDE Team. I got to know Eric at TechEd this year where we had a lot of fun floating in the pool on bright...

If you missed it, this week a new community submitted article was released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . In this article learn how to control the Vista...

Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time we have Bill Horst, a tester on the VB Team. You might know Bill from his awesome series of blog posts on Converting SQL to LINQ . Also check out the...

In this interview Saaid Kahn, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team (and former member of the VB Team), shows us how to create an n-tier application against a database using ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and an Entity Data Model, both...