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Channel 9 Interview: Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:35 GMT

Mike Morton is back at it again, this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a Silverlight WebPart to SharePoint 2010. He also walks us through the solution, package and file properties available to you in Visual Studio 2010. You'll see me giggling in this one because I can't believe how easy it is.

Channel 9 Interview: Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:33:45 GMT

This time I interview a good friend of mine, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you to describe data coming from multiple data sources and how to work with them in SharePoint. He builds a master/detail association across entities coming from separate data sources (a database and a service) and demonstrates how the entities can be displayed and edited.

Channel 9 Interview: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in Visual Studio 2010

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:21:30 GMT

In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Lily shows off the new SharePoint feature and package designers in Visual Studio 2010 and how they make packaging up and deploying your SharePoint customizations easy. As she dives deeper into the tools, she also demonstrates the flexibility and control you have in specifying what features go in what packages across projects in your solution as well as how to modify the manifests to meet a variety of developer needs.

Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010

Also if you missed it, check out these interviews as well:

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:47:10 GMT

In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Saaid shows us the WSP Import Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 that allows developers to take SharePoint Solution packages developed with SharePoint Designer and bring them into Visual Studio 2010 to further customize them there.

Channel 9 Interview: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010

Also if you missed it, check out Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 which I posted on Monday.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:53:00 GMT

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. Mike shows us how easy it is to build, package, deploy and debug SharePoint 2010 customizations by walking through a site workflow, event receiver, visual web part, the feature and package designers as well as other goodies. This is a great intro for Visual Studio developers looking to get into SharePoint development, but seasoned SharePoint developers will also appreciate the new tools presented here:

Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please check out:

SharePoint 2010 Development Resources

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthroughs

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Samples

SharePoint Team Blog

Office Development in Visual Studio Team Blog

And give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy!

What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?

Beth Massi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:47:00 GMT

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 gradual, phased migration to .NET.

Channel 9 Interview: What is Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?

Read the Official Support Statement on Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Today we also updated the the Visual Basic 6 Resource Center with better navigation, Visual Basic 6 samples and components, important downloads, as well as migration tools and training mentioned in the interview.

Please visit the Visual Basic 6 Migration page for information on how to plan and execute a gradual, phased migration to .NET.

Enjoy!

WPF or Silverlight? Billy Hollis Shares His Thoughts on Channel 9

Beth Massi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:25:00 GMT

One of my favorite Visual Basic MVP’s, Billy Hollis, was caught at TechEd by the Patterns&Practices folks for a quick chat. In this short 2-minute interview Billy shares his opinions on WPF and Silverlight. Check it out:

Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight

By the way, anyone notice Channel 9 turned blue today in honor of Windows 7…

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008

Beth Massi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:19:05 GMT

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 simple LINQ query work.

In this interview I sit down with Jonathan Aneja, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Compiler team, who dives deep into these features like Type Inference, Anonymous Types, Lambda Expressions, Expressions Trees, and more. He explains what's actually happening behind the scenes and all the work the compiler is doing for you when you write a LINQ query.

My head almost explodes at the end but I learned a lot of important concepts so check it out:

LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008

Enjoy!

How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line

Beth Massi — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:46:40 GMT

Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build process that spits out a product at the other end? Well I sure did and it's not just hitting F5 people ;-).

In this interview I sit down with Matt Gertz, frequent VB blogger and also the guy in charge of the builds in Developer Division (he has a long title, but I forget what it is :-)). He explains how the build and test processes work on a team of two thousand people all on Team Foundation Server. I must say it's pretty darn impressive. Many thanks to Matt for taking time out of his busy schedule to do this interview!

How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE

Beth Massi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:22:00 GMT

I just posted another interview on Channel 9. I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates and he sets me straight on how ClickOnce deployment and application manifests work. He then shows how to re-sign them outside of Visual Studio using a tool called Mage. This is really handy for folks that need to modify the files within a deployment package, like the application settings (app.config) file, but don't have Visual Studio installed.

Channel 9: Resigning ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE

Saurabh draws on the whiteboard in this one and since I'm a one (wo)man show I couldn't jump up and zoom in so I redrew it for you all here.

Saurabh has also posted more details in an article he wrote here.

Links from the show:

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!

Beth Massi — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:11:20 GMT

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 in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation indicators. Woot!

This makes your code more readable especially when writing multi-line LINQ queries. It's also really handy not to have to worry about them when writing multi-line lambdas, a new feature of Visual Basic 10. Check out Tyler's blog post that explains the details.

Yes it's true, many underscores are unemployed so the team has created a support group for them at www.unemployedunderscores.com :-)

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps

Beth Massi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:01:08 GMT

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps.

At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked me if he could interview Milind Lele himself to get the low-down -- I said sure!

Milind is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team. In this interview he chats with Alessandro about the new WPF improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for building business applications. This time Milind shows off the new Visual Studio UI and the new WPF data grid as he quickly builds a master-details form against an Entity Data Model using the new RAD drag-drop data binding features for WPF.

Also check out Milind's blog post on this topic for more information.

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic

Beth Massi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:31:12 GMT

I just posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK.

The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview I meet up with Touchless SDK creator, Mike Wasserman and Visual Basic Spec Lead, Lucian Wischik. They explain the project and show off a game they developed using Visual Basic 9 in Visual Studio 2008. I almost got my block knocked off playing the game but you'll see how it was worth it ;-)

For additional information mentioned in the video check out:

Touchless SDK: http://touchless.codeplex.com/
SDK Video: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a89a217b-fc38-4a6c-87f8-ab59a2028391
VB Game Source code: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vbtouchless
VB Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam
VB Dev Center: http://msdn.com/vbasic
Office Labs: http://www.officelabs.com/

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:20:40 GMT

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very interesting observations about DSLs and Visual Basic XML literals. You can download the code Dmitry shows in the interview from his blog here.

Enjoy!

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010

Beth Massi — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:35 GMT

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 in Visual Studio 2010 -- Drag-Drop Data Binding.

See it in action for yourself on Channel 9.

Enjoy!