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The Visual Basic Team
Closures in VB Part 5: Looping
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over 6 years ago
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For previous articles in the series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Part 3: Scope Part 4: Variable Lifetime Once again sorry for the long delay between posts. Looping structures can cause unintended consequences...
The Visual Basic Team
New Visual Basic LINQ to XML Videos Released! (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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We just released a new set of How-Do-I videos in our LINQ series on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic. These 4 new videos will help get you up to speed on using this new language feature in Visual Basic 2008. They walk you through the basics of LINQ to XML...
The Visual Basic Team
Creating Visual Basic Add-ins for Windows Home Server (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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We recently announced the availability of Windows Home Server . Here's an interview on Channel 9 with Dev Lead, Chris Gray, where he talks about the extensibility model and then walks through how to create an add-in for the Home Server console using Visual...
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Shell released (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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Today the VS Ecosystem team released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and the Visual Studio 2008 shell . The VS 2008 SDK contains full native Visual Basic support and contains many VB samples. What was in the VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK is now included...
The Visual Basic Team
Amanda Silver will be Presenting VB and Silverlight on Second Life! (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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If you haven't seen or experienced Second Life it's pretty amazing. It's an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world's live presentation theater! Amanda...
The Visual Basic Team
Back home again!
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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I can't tell you how excited I am to return to the Visual Basic team after almost eight years of absence! I spent much time working in groups around Microsoft including games, office and business solutions. But in each of these areas I focussed primarily...
The Visual Basic Team
Channel 9 Interview - Offline Data Synchronization Services in Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele showing us his favorite VS 2008 features - the new Data Synchronization designer and how the sync services for ADO.NET work to support occasionally connected scenarios. He shows us how to set up a local...
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Basic 2005 Command-line Compiler (VBC.exe) Hotfix Released!
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download. We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed...
The Visual Basic Team
VB6 Collections: The Missing LINQ
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over 7 years ago
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VBTeam
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By Jonathan Aneja Hi, my name’s Jonathan and I’m a Program Manager on the VB team, working mainly on LINQ features. One of the things I love about LINQ is it’s not just limited to querying over databases and XML – you can query over any collection...
The Visual Basic Team
Coding a Euchre Game, Part 4: Tooltips and Menus (Matt Gertz)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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Coding a Euchre Game, Part 4: Tooltips and Menus Menus and tooltips are so incredibly important to applications, and yet implementing them sometimes seems to be arcane magic. In this post, I’m going to do my best to demystify them. Menus To add...
The Visual Basic Team
Coding a Euchre Game, Part 2: Show me the cards! (Matt Gertz)
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over 6 years ago
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Coding a Euchre Game, Part 2: Show me the cards! In my previous post, I discussed using control-drag to speed up the design of a form which uses lots of similar controls. In this post, I’m going to discuss displaying images on those controls. Now...
The Visual Basic Team
InteropForms 2.0 Tip #1 - Font Property
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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(Starting today, we'll be highlighting various tips that might help you when using the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit. With the latest release of the toolkit, you can do some fairly impressive upgrades to your existing VB6 applications. Don't believe me? Check...
The Visual Basic Team
So what does ComClass actually do?
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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I came across a really cool article yesterday by James Ashley, which shows some of the cool things you can do with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 . The three VB6 examples cover consuming a WebService (complete with a Dilbert icon showing up in the VB6...
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Basic LINQ Hands On Labs for Orcas Beta 1 (Beth Massi)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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The VB team just posted some Hands On Labs on LINQ and LINQ to SQL for Orcas Beta 1. The first lab provides an introduction to The LINQ Project . You'll look at basic LINQ features including the Standard Query Operators, and you'll see how these features...
The Visual Basic Team
Dissecting Snippets (Matt Gertz)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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The snippet feature is one of the features that I’m fondest of in Visual Basic. It was another one of a handful of features that got discussed in a series of “What if…” meetings that Sam & I had during the “Whidbey” planning stages. As I recall, the...
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Basic & Smart Devices (Matt Gertz)
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over 6 years ago
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VBTeam
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Last week I talked a bit about operator overloading, and used the concept to support a library of matrix functions. This week, we’ll use those functions in a Smart Device application to create a matrix calculator. Smart Device applications It’s...
The Visual Basic Team
Transactional Update using TableAdapters
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over 9 years ago
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VBTeam
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As promised, I’ve put together a sample that demonstrates how to create a transactional update using the new Whidbey TableAdapters. http://windowsforms.net/samples/ThreeLevelUpdate.zip In this sample I create a Parent, Child and Grandchild relationship...
The Visual Basic Team
Custom Controls in the Data Sources Window
Posted
over 9 years ago
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VBTeam
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This is a link to the sample that will accompany an upcoming article in CoDe magazine . http://windowsforms.net/samples/CustomControlSample.zip In this example I demonstrate several types of objects: 1:1, 1:Many and the use of Custom Controls. Thanks...
The Visual Basic Team
Open letter to VB community
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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Jay discusses the MVP petition on VB6. Add your thoughts. We do want to hear them.
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Basic Chats in February
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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We're going to have four Visual Basic chats in February: Programming Essentials in Visual Basic .NET Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. PST (20:00 - 21:00 GMT) Hosts: Robin Reynolds-Haertle, Todd Apley, Harry Kantamneni, Vladimir Sadov, Bill...
The Visual Basic Team
Tech-Ed San Diego, Wednesday
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over 9 years ago
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VBTeam
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Posted By: David Guyer, Visual Basic Testing Today I got to meet a lot more people who are similarly enthusiastic about the features I mentioned yesterday. Right now I'm sitting in the Sails pavillion where my day began enjoying the breeze and quiet...
The Visual Basic Team
PDC: Where the VB team will be...
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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I'm *really* excited to be at the PDC this year. I've been to a few PDCs in the past and I think that this one is going to be the best, by far. In addition to the great demos, panels, and meet the team events, there will be a lot of buzz and discussion...
The Visual Basic Team
Channel 9 Videos
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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Some videos on VB futures have been posted on Channel9 at: · Paul Vick and Amanda Silver - VB Language Futures : http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=116700 · Paul Vick and Erik Meijer - Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic http:/...
The Visual Basic Team
Visual Studio 2005 IDE: Top Ten Feature List (by LisaFeig)
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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For our first VB IDE post on the VB team blog , I’d like to give you my list of the top 10 new features in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. Now that the product has been released, you can take advantage of these today! 1. Edit and Continue You are again...
The Visual Basic Team
Edit & Continue - Rude Edits
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over 8 years ago
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VBTeam
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by Bill Horst Edit and Continue is a new VB debugging feature which allows the user to make edits to code while the debugger is in "Break Mode" and then to continue debugging with the new edits applied, without having to start execution over again...
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