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Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010
15 December 09 11:12 PM
Early this year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. If you missed them: Architecture of the Northwind Office Business 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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New Channel 9 Videos on Visual Studio 2010
27 October 09 11:29 AM
I’ve noticed that folks have been busy creating video content on the newly released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 while I’ve been gone!  (I’ve got a couple up my sleeve that I’ll post soon as well ;-)) For instance, Kathleen’s continuing her series of Read More...
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Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
08 October 09 11:33 AM
I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic 2010. In this month’s MSDN Magazine, Spotty shows us how this new syntax in Visual Basic will make you more productive when writing code. Collection and Array Initializers Read More...
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Visual Basic Power Packs also included with Visual Studio 2010
27 July 09 09:56 AM
If you’re like me and used to having line & shape controls , PrintForm and a handy DataRepeater as part of your toolbox then you’ll be excited to know that these controls are also going to be installed with Visual Studio 2010. On Friday, Yunfeng Dong 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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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...
Visual Studio 2010 Topic of the Week
16 June 09 09:32 AM
Kathleen McGrath has started a series where she takes Visual Studio 2010 walkthroughs and demonstrates them with a screen-cast each week on Channel 9 . If you’re just digging into the VS2010 Beta you should definitely check these out to help get you started Read More...
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Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 10
05 June 09 03:55 PM
Visual Basic 10 (in Visual Studio 2010) is getting a new feature called Collection Initializers which contains the same functionality as the C# 3 feature but it takes it one step further. Let me show you what I mean. Visual Basic 9 (in Visual Studio 2008) 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...
Visual Basic 2010 Preview on CodeCast with Lisa Feigenbaum
29 April 09 08:39 AM
Codecast is a short (~25min) podcast by Ken Levy who runs around Microsoft grabbing interviews with folks. In this episode Lisa talks about what Visual Basic developers can expect from the Visual Studio 2010 editor and IDE and other cool new features 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...
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Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM
The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...
WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding on dnrTV & WPF Business App Resources
07 January 09 03:03 PM
I'm still catching up from holiday vacation so I just watched my dnrTV episode today that I filmed with Carl when I saw him at DevTeach in Montreal last month. I always enjoy interviewing with Carl. He has a way of making you feel comfortable and making 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...
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