April 2006 - Posts

• Resources for fourth webcast: Deploying Visual Basic 2005 Applications with ClickOnce

  Wednesday, April 26, 2005, 11 AM Central View here: Deploying Visual Basic 2005 Applications with ClickOnce Resources for after Wednesday's webcast Visit the ClickOnce Team Blog Using ClickOnce Check out the ClickOnce FAQ at windowsforms.net ClickOnce Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:51 AM by jacobcy | 5 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• Q&A from RAD for the VB 2005 Developer

  Q: In what file are the code snippets you create stored? A: Code snippets are actually stored individually as *.snippet files, making them easy to migrate between developers and machines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:28 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• For everyone who loathes interviews, corporate bureaucracy, and yes-men (and women)

  I saw this video at 2:25 AM on Wednesday morning and it spoke to me on so many levels, so I knew I had to share it with my small piece of the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HS7D3LRDYw After-blog mint: Unfortunately, as Jim points out, it appears Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:27 AM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Third webcast: Rapid Application Development for the Visual Basic 2005 Developer

  Wednesday, April 19, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: Rapid Application Development for the Visual Basic 2005 Developer Resources for after today's webcast Review the Q&A from this webcast Visit the Visual Studio IDE Blog Writing Correct Code See Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:51 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• A Geography Lesson (by way of MSDN Events), plus a chance to win a cool prize

  I'm going out on a limb and trying something a bit radical. Those of you who know me are well aware that my title is Developer Community Champion. What you may not know is that is my public-facing title. Internally at Microsoft, I am known as a Developer Read More... Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:05 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events, Developer Knowledge Attachment(s): Geopraphy experiment.msg

• Batman could whoop any other superhero's behind, except for Wesley Willis (may he rest in peace)

  At the end of my webcast on Data Access in Visual Basic 2005 , the conversation turned from DataSets and ADO.NET to Batman (and all of the lesser superheroes). I feel the need to reiterate that Batman is the ultimate superhero. Despite his deep psychological Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:06 PM by jacobcy | 8 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Second webcast: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005

  Wednesday, April 12, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 Resources for after today's webcast Visit the Data Access Team Blog Read about the Data Access Application Block in Enterprise Library 2.0 Can't get enough data Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:31 PM by jacobcy | 15 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• 'Volkswebcasts' - May Segment - VB 2005 Upgrade

  To continue the Visual Basic 2005 webcast series in May, we will be exploring tools and techniques for migrating your skills and applications to Visual Basic 2005... when it makes sense to do so. 5/3/2006 9:00 AM Pacific - Tools and Techniques for Upgrading Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 5:47 PM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• Coming soon to downtown Chicago: Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

  The Chicago Access Users Group (CAUG) has cordially invited me to present in April at their monthly meeting! See below for the details. The meeting is open to everybody - hope to see you there :-) Microsoft Office is more than a killer productivity suite. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:59 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: User Group Events, Developer Knowledge

• VBA vs. VSTO vs. VSTA

  During today's Language Enhancements webcast, I received a question about what's going on with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - we briefly touched upon VBA and some of the other Office automation/customization tools. To help you out, I did a little Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:06 AM by jacobcy | 6 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• First webcast: New Language Features in Visual Basic 2005

  Wednesday, April 5, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: New Language Features in Visual Basic 2005 Resources for after today's webcast Bookmark the Visual Basic Developer Center Visit the Visual Basic Team Blog Download the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:20 PM by jacobcy | 14 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic 2005 Today