February 2004 - Posts

• Say Anything

  You should never start a blog and then post a bunch and then do nothing, right? Well, let it not be said that I made no posts for an entire week! This will be a short post. I am off to Utah for a week of skiing. An annual trip full of great skiing, great Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 7:52 PM by rgreen_msft | 3 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff

• Whidbey at the .NETDA Part 2

  Previously on my blog I wrote about showing VB Whidbey to the .NET Developers Association General Meeting in Redmond. I covered IDE enhancements aimed at increasing productivity. Here I'll cover Data. I showed the Data Sources Window. You can use it to Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:37 PM by rgreen_msft | 5 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey, User groups

• Clarification on My

  Previously on my blog I said ”The My namespace is really just wrappers around existing Framework classes.” Jay Schmelzer of the VB team writes It’s not a set of wrappers for the framework, it is a speed-dial into the framework that helps Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:30 AM by rgreen_msft | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Holy Cow!

  Yesterday afternoon, I created this blog and late afternoon I added the first 2 posts. Around 6:00 PST I showed a couple people in the VB group and sent 3 emails on it (1 to the VB team, 1 to VS Marketing and 1 to Brian Goldfarb who helped me get the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:13 AM by rgreen_msft | 5 Comments

• Whidbey at the .NETDA Part 1

  Last night I presented VB Whidbey at the .NET Developer Association General Meeting here in Redmond. I was on after Dave Winer and Robert Scoble spoke on blogs and RSS, etc. It is no coincidence that my blog debuts the very next day. Thanks to Dave and Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:14 PM by rgreen_msft | 7 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey, User groups

• My first post

  One more blogger on the planet! Oh, I've heard about them, and read them. But I hadn't started one. Until today, this sunny Seattle day (and no, you don't see too many of those in February!). This blog will be about Visual Basic and about the VB team, Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:50 PM by rgreen_msft | 5 Comments