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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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Visual Basic 10, C# 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Talk @ EastBay.NET
10 July 09 10:00 AM
On Wednesday I spoke at EastBay.NET User’s group at our new Livermore location and I have to say it was a TON of fun. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun speaking in a while. Deborah has an awesome recap of the event . We were afraid that we’d have low Read More...
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Community Article: Getting Started with .NET RIA Services
30 June 09 12:44 PM
We just published another community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by Maurice de Beijer , Visual Basic MVP, on .NET RIA Services. Maurice explains what they are and how they help you build Silverlight line-of-business applications. Sample Read More...
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Are you a “VB”?
26 June 09 05:40 PM
At the MVP summit this year Kathleen and I asked MVPs using Visual Basic what kinds of applications they’re building, what other technologies they’re using, what their favorite features are, and more. Many thanks to all of you who humored me! The result? Read More...
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Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks
25 June 09 03:34 PM
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on the Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Basic to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office Read More...
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Misfit Geek Podcast on the Future of VB
22 June 09 04:51 PM
Joe Stagner’s second podcast is up and this time he’s interviewing the one and only Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB team . Joe pins her down on what the future of VB really is and discusses perceptions, parity and co-evolution. It’s a great interview so check Read More...
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Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM
Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with Read More...
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TechEd is Online
11 May 09 12:15 PM
If you’re like me and couldn’t make it down to L.A. this year for TechEd, you can still check out some of the sessions and Keynotes at TechEd Online . If you want to really geek out, you can also watch the twitter feed , blog feed and more . Don’t forget Read More...
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CodeCast Episode 20 with Yours Truly!
07 May 09 08:50 AM
In the latest episode of CodeCast , Ken interviews me about my role on the Visual Studio Community Team. Ken caught me a couple weeks ago when I was in Redmond and we had a chat in the lobby of building 41. Ken and I are good friends and go way back so Read More...
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