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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">VB.NET Chat Announcements</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/atom.xml</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/atom.xml" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="2.1.61025.2">Community Server</generator><updated>2005-04-12T12:24:00Z</updated><entry><title>April 26, 2005: DirectX 9.0 Direct3D Graphics with Visual Basic .NET</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/archive/2005/04/13/407946.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/archive/2005/04/13/407946.aspx</id><published>2005-04-13T23:37:00Z</published><updated>2005-04-13T23:37:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;DirectX 9.0 Direct3D Graphics with Visual Basic .NET&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Tuesday, April 26, 2005 from 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time (&lt;A href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&amp;amp;month=4&amp;amp;day=26&amp;amp;hour=13&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=234" target=_blank&gt;Additional Time Zones&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hosts:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Tom Miller and Adam Gallant. &lt;EM&gt;More to come...&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Do you have questions about how to best use Visual Basic .NET to program DirectX 9.0 graphics? Are you unsure when to use a particular Direct3D feature? Join members of the Visual Basic and Windows Graphics &amp;amp; Gaming Technologies teams and discuss how to leverage the power of DirectX 9.0 from Visual Basic .NET.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You can view this announcement on Microsoft's &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx#05_0426_DN_D3D"&gt;main chat&lt;/A&gt; page, or &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/05_0426_DN_D3D.ics"&gt;add a reminder&lt;/A&gt; to your Outlook Calendar.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=407946" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>VB.NET Chat Announcements</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/VB.NET+Chat+Announcements.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>April 19, 2005: Visual Basic 2005 Data Enhancements</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/archive/2005/04/12/407692.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/archive/2005/04/12/407692.aspx</id><published>2005-04-12T18:24:00Z</published><updated>2005-04-12T18:24:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Visual Basic 2005 Data Enhancements&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Tuesday, April 19, 2005 from 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time (&lt;A href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&amp;amp;month=4&amp;amp;day=19&amp;amp;hour=13&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=234" target=_blank&gt;Additional Time Zones&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hosts:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Steve Lasker, Karol Zadora-Przylecki, Eric Gruber,&amp;nbsp;Ryan Cavanaugh, Jay Hickerson, and Lishi Liu&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Join members of the Visual Basic team to talk about Visual Basic 2005's new data-related features. Ask questions and provide feedback about the Beta version of the Data Sources window (a central location for working with the data in your project), drag-and-drop data binding, binding to objects, working with local data, and new data components such as the TableAdapter and DataConnector.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You can view this announcement on Microsoft's &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx#05_0419_VB_DE"&gt;main chat&lt;/A&gt; page, or &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/05_0419_VB_DE.ics"&gt;add a reminder&lt;/A&gt; to your Outlook Calendar.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=407692" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>VB.NET Chat Announcements</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/VB.NET+Chat+Announcements.aspx</uri></author><category term="Raw Chat Information" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/vb.net_chat_announcements/archive/tags/Raw+Chat+Information/default.aspx" /></entry></feed>