Visual Basic in the HOOOOUUUUSSSSEEEE

Published 25 January 08 06:06 PM

Man! I haven't blogged all week and I'm going through withdrawal. I've been up in Redmond with the gang and back-to-back meetings all day and meet-and-greet dinners every night make it hard to have time to answer emails let alone blog. But now I'm up in Victoria, BC for Code Camp that's tomorrow. I'll be speaking on all things new and exciting in VB9. Check out the schedule and come on over if you're in the area. I'll also be in Denver next week speaking at a Microsoft event there.

Another couple things of interest this this week that I should share, the Visual Basic Forums bug pilot was launched. You can now report bugs directly into the VB forums on MSDN and these will be routed into our bug tracking systems. So get in there and report your Visual Basic bugs.

Also, Paul and I rocked the house playing guitar hero and rock band last weekend. "Visual Basic in the HOOOOUUUUSEEEE".

 

It's always a busy but extremely enjoyable time in Redmond.

 

by Beth Massi
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# some guy said on January 26, 2008 10:45 PM:

hi beth,

i want to give you a very quick story. i work at a windows shop that is just now migrating to .net. we've always been a vb 6/vba shop and have been constantly butting heads with the limitations of jet and vb 6. it was great technology for its time but the world has changed, etc etc.

well, vb.net, and especially vb 9, is like a breath of fresh air. i can still quickly get in and start banging out lines of (reasonably bug-free) working code, but now i can actually do the hard stuff that was so tedious and esoteric in vb 6. we have broken our rusty cages and run.

xml literals ROCK. big ups!

closures and lambda expressions ROCK.

if i could marry LINQ, i would.

even though i only understand and work with a tiny subset of all the things the CLR has to offer, i'm much more productive and agile.

# benjamin said on January 29, 2008 7:48 AM:

i find .net to be clumsy and complicated with its codings

# M.Fahim said on March 2, 2008 3:01 AM:

hi Beth Massi now i just found your blog and this my first time to see u .

form long time i want say thanks alot

you support me more times by your videos

and i'm wating for more lesson specially in Reports,

i'm a dot.net programmer

from Egypt

Working  in Dubai UAE

thanks again

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About Beth Massi

Beth Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
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