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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...
Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    
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...
Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
25 March 09 11:05 AM
I just popped a headline onto the Visual Basic Developer Center (which also appears on the VS start page for all of us that have selected the VB development settings :-)) about the release of Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    
Silverlight 2 How Do I Videos
22 September 08 08:26 AM
If you're interested in learning about Silverlight, check out the How Do I videos on Silverlight 2 , which include managed code examples in both Visual Basic and C#. All you need to get started building Silverlight applications is here on the Get Started Read More...
Spelunking the DOM with Silverlight 1.1
11 October 07 10:47 AM
If you missed it, earlier this week we posted Rod Paddock's followup article on Silverlight onto the Visual Basic Developer Center . In this article Rod walks us through creating and calling a web service in Silverlight 1.1 clients. If you're just getting Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    
Amanda Silver will be Presenting VB and Silverlight on Second Life!
30 July 07 11:24 AM
If you haven't seen or experienced Second Life it's pretty amazing. It's an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world's live presentation theater! Amanda Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    
Siverlight Javascript Compiler Written in VB.NET
25 May 07 03:40 PM
Paul posted an interesting tid-bit of news yesterday if you missed it, yes it's true, the JavaScript compiler they wrote for Silverlight 1.1 is written in Visual Basic! Score for the home team! :-) Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    
The Future of Visual Basic
14 May 07 10:36 AM
I'm here at DevTeach in beautiful Montreal ! And man, what great weather they are having so far. I'm in a t-shirt overlooking the Cathedrale Marie-Reine-Du-Monde and Dorchester Square. I just arrived last night and the pre-conference sessions are already Read More...
Playing with Silverlight on the Mac
05 May 07 07:28 PM
So I'm here at my mom's house and we're writing our first Silverlight 1.1 application with Visual Basic. I have a Lenovo laptop running Vista and Virtual PC 2007 and she has a MacBook Pro. I was heading over today for dinner so I thought it would be the Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    
Visual Basic running on a Mac! Seriously.
01 May 07 02:49 PM
Have you ever dreamed of writing Visual Basic code that ran cross-platform AND cross-browser? Well wake up from your dream because last night at MIX Microsoft announced Silverlight 1.1 which includes a version of the .NET framework and the Visual Basic Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

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