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What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?
14 September 09 05:47 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Paul Yuknewicz , Lead Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Paul discusses Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE support options as well as proven techniques, tools and best practices for interoperability and Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
21 July 09 10:19 PM
Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In db.Customers _ Where row.Country = "Canada" _ Select row A lot of new language features went into the compilers in Visual Studio 2008 to make even this Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!
27 March 09 09:11 AM
I just posted a new Channel 9 interview on a nifty little feature which isn't so little when you look at it from the compiler. In this interview, Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team demonstrates how line termination has changed Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic
20 March 09 09:31 AM
I just 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 Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals
16 February 09 09:20 AM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010
26 November 08 09:54 AM
And speaking of RAD with WPF .... I just posted a new Channel 9 video with Milind Lele , Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team.  In this interview Milind shows one of the new RAD improvements I was talking about that is coming to WPF Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: ADO.NET Data Services in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
21 October 08 01:17 PM
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 Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
15 August 08 12:18 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant
28 July 08 03:16 PM
I just posted an interview screencast on Channel 9 . In this interview, Jared Parsons , a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex . The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke Read More...
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Channel9 Interview: Visual Basic Language Design Meeting
23 July 08 06:02 PM
I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview - Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit
04 March 08 04:14 PM
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 2008. He also shows us how to deploy a hybrid application built Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense
18 January 08 09:00 AM
Yesterday I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard . He also shows the differences between Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic
19 December 07 01:30 PM
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained
14 December 07 01:57 PM
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals. Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!
11 December 07 05:41 PM
I just released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum , PM on the VB IDE Team, where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all Read More...
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