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Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 2
08 December 09 10:51 AM
Last month Robert Green , VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Today we published part 2 of his step-by-step tutorials. Thanks Robert! In this second part of the series of tutorials on Office Business Applications, learn Read More...
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New Learning Resources on the VSTO Developer Center
01 December 09 05:43 PM
Last week we revamped the Learn pages on the VSTO Developer Center with more content that allows you to pivot on more fine-grained topics and tasks under each type of Office solution. We’ve changed the layout of these pages so that you can browse for Read More...
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SF Bay.NET UG Tonight: Create a Custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO
18 November 09 02:23 PM
If you’re in the Bay Area, come on out to downtown SF where Robin will be talking about Outlook Add-ins tonight. Create a custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO When :  Wednesday, 11/18/2009 at 6:30 PM Where : Microsoft San Francisco Office, 835 Market Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
16 November 09 03:53 PM
In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective. Read More...
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History of Visual Studio
28 October 09 01:07 PM
I just started catching up on a cool series on Channel 9: The Visual Studio Documentary The documentary kicks off by taking you back to the days of MS-DOS and Alan Cooper who originally sold Visual Basic to Bill Gates back in 1988. It has a lot of BASIC Read More...
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SDC 2009 Recap & Surprise
20 October 09 06:39 AM
SDC09 has been a blast. I just finished my last session on Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and I think it went well. We created an OBA for good old Northwind Traders. I migrated the 2008 code which is here on code gallery Read More...
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WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis
12 October 09 10:12 AM
If you’re up in Redmond, the . NET Developers Association has a very special guest for their meeting tonight. Billy Hollis will be speaking on WPF showing off a real business application he developed. Billy has a very “practical programmer” style that Read More...
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A New Look is Coming to MSDN – See a Preview on the VB Dev Center
07 October 09 09:25 PM
Today MSDN released a preview of what’s to come later this month on the Visual Basic Developer Center . You should notice an URL at the top that directs you to check out the preview : Besides the cool colors you’ll see a better layout on the home page Read More...
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Great Article on Community
02 October 09 11:08 AM
I just read a great article on DevProConnections by Michael K. Campbell , The SQL Server Community: A Welcoming Place for Newbies It reminded me of when I started developing on the Microsoft platform back in the early 90s and how welcoming I found developers Read More...
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Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct. 3-4 : Schedule is up!
28 September 09 12:37 PM
As I mentioned before , I’ll be speaking this weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp ( http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ ). This is a FREE event at at Foothill College and it’s not just Microsoft technologies. A lot of great speakers will be there too. Read More...
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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...
Speaking at the Central CA .NET Users Group Tommorrow Night!
09 September 09 02:08 PM
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Central California .NET Users Group located in Fresno, CA. I'll be tag teaming with Tim Huckaby , CEO of Interknowlogy showing off some new features of Visual Studio 2010. I'll talk about the managed language co-evolution Read More...
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Rate and Ask Questions on How Do I Videos on the VB Dev Center
03 September 09 05:50 PM
“How Do I” Videos have been an incredibly popular free training for Visual Studio developers for a couple years now. Today MSDN launched a pilot on the Visual Basic Developer Center’s “How Do I” Videos that allows you to rate them and add comments. Sweet! Read More...
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Come to Silicon Valley Code Camp October 3rd & 4th
27 August 09 03:00 PM
I’ll be speaking again this year at Silicon Valley Code Camp! Only 37 days left to register: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ This free event will be at Foothill College again this year.  There are over 100 sessions currently listed covering topics Read More...
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Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex Adds Live Samples in Visual Basic
03 August 09 02:27 PM
Today Justin updated the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex with samples in Silverlight 3 that you can run live directly on the site. Check out all the live tutorials: Part 1 – Controls Part 2 – Charting Part 3 – Theming Part 4 - Navigation Controls Part Read More...
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