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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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XAML Power Toys Released for Visual Studio 2010
26 October 09 04:25 PM
I finally made my way back home from Europe and I’m still digging through all my email, newsletters, feeds, etc. But one of the items that grabbed my attention is this week Karl Shifflett released updated XAML Power Tools for Visual Studio 2008 as well Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Here!
19 October 09 09:58 AM
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released! Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta Forums , report bugs on Connect , and watch videos about Visual Studio 2010 on Channel 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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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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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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MSDN Subscribers, Come and Get Windows 7 Today!
06 August 09 01:57 PM
Window 7 is available to MSDN subscribers today! My friend is so excited she pinged me in IM and told me she was refreshing her browser all morning on MSDN’s home page until the headline showed up. LOL! Everyone is so excited maybe that’s why Twitter Read More...
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N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework
05 August 09 03:20 PM
This month’s MSDN Magazine has a particularly good article in there by Danny Simmons , Development Manager on the Entity Framework team, on N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework   that I recommend reading through. He explains the design Read More...
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Working with a Local Database File in Visual Studio
31 July 09 12:58 PM
In this post and video I’ve shown folks how to work with a local database file (.mdf, .mdb, .sdf) that resides directly inside your project in order to see updates made while debugging your application. If it looks like everything saves fine while debugging, 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...
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WPF Data Binding Samples on Code Gallery
17 June 09 12:41 PM
One of the many samples released for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that you should be aware of are examples of WPF data binding against Entity Data Models. You can find some easy to follow samples here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFDatabinding This sample Read More...
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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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