May 2004 - Posts

• Favorite Starter Kit Ideas

  I've heard a lot of feedback that we should put together some starter kits in VB that people can use to get going with VB. I love the idea and want to start creating them and start seeding the community to create them. However, every time that I've asked Read More... Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 5:27 PM by JRoxe | 9 Comments

• Best VB Blogs

  This seems to be a relevant question with TechEd going on...What are your favorite VB Blogs, particularly those outside of Microsoft? If you respond with your favorite blogs, I'll compile the list and post it. Read More... Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 5:19 PM by JRoxe | 0 Comments

• Five Years and Counting

  Yesterday I hit my 5 year anniversary with Microsoft...the hard way. I was a dev and a dev lead on the .NET Framework from 1997 through 2001, left for a couple of years to go back to school and then came back as the VB Product Manager last August. I wasn't Read More... Posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:54 PM by JRoxe | 5 Comments

• VB Team Blogging

  The VB team has just started a blog for the team: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam . Now, this won't replace blogs from people like Paul Vick who are already well known in the blogosphere, but it does give you a greater chance to meet individuals on the VB Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:41 AM by JRoxe | 0 Comments

• Looking for training?

  One of the things that I spent a lot of today thinking about was the best way to provide training for VB developers - both those who are already using VB .NET and want to take it to the next level and those who are using VB6 and want to kick the tires Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:23 AM by JRoxe | 5 Comments

• Looking for training?

  One of the things that I spent a lot of today thinking about was the best way to provide training for VB developers - both those who are already using VB .NET and want to take it to the next level and those who are using VB6 and want to kick the tires Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:21 AM by JRoxe | 3 Comments

• Are you using the community technical previews?

  One of the new things that we're doing during this product cycle is releasing a series of Community Technical Previews. For those of you who haven't used a Community Tech Preview, they're pre-beta releases of the product. Normally when we release a beta, Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:37 AM by JRoxe | 6 Comments

• Toronto Rocked

  I went up to Toronto last week and gave my first keynote at VSLive Toronto . The show was a lot of fun and had about 450 people show up. The talk was a lot about the productivity enhancements coming in VS 2005 with Paul Yuknewicz doing a demo of VB 2005 Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:33 AM by JRoxe | 10 Comments

• VB @ The Movies Has Gone Live

  Check out VB @ The Movies - We've got 101 short videos of how to do everything from creating a checked list box, include data in your form, build a web app, or customize the IDE. While a lot of this content is targetted at the beginning developer, we've Read More... Posted Saturday, May 01, 2004 5:08 PM by JRoxe | 4 Comments