March 2009 - Posts

CodeCast Episode 12: Visual Basic and the VB Community (Lisa Feigenbaum, Dustin Campbell)
29 March 09 04:30 PM
Be sure to check out the latest episode of CodeCast with two VB interviews, including myself and VB program manager Dustin Campbell! Thursday, February 19, 2009 CodeCast Episode 12: Visual Basic and the VB Community In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Read More...
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Implicit Line Continuation in VB 10 (Tyler Whitney)
27 March 09 09:00 AM
Things are always changing. I was at the Washington State History Museum with my daughter a couple weeks ago. One of the exhibits features pictures of various sites that were taken many years ago. Then it contrasts them with contemporary pictures taken Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi, Tyler Whitney)
27 March 09 08:56 AM
I just posted a new Channel 9 interview . This time it's with Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team. Here he demonstrates how line termination has changed in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation Read More...
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The Silverlight Toolkit Adds Visual Basic Samples (Lisa Feigenbaum)
26 March 09 07:47 AM
The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code. Please follow the links to view these samples for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 . Silverlight 2: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html Read More...
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Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight: VB QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To Topics released! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 March 09 08:37 PM
Today the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team released a download aimed to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. It includes VB versions of the QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To topics: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=537da1cd-43e1-4799-88e7-a1da9166fb46 Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps (Beth Massi, Milind Lele)
24 March 09 12:01 PM
Today I posted a new 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 Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi, Lucian Wischik)
20 March 09 12:03 PM
Today I 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 Read More...
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MIX 09 Video: Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic (Alex Turner, Lisa Feigenbaum)
19 March 09 02:06 PM
Alex Turner presented VB XML yesterday here at MIX 09. Check out the video from his session! Video link: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T72M (The powerpoint slides are attached.) Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 MIX09-T72M Read More...
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Visual Studio at MIX 09 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
18 March 09 06:40 AM
MIX 09 is here! ScottGu kicks off the keynote today at 9am PST. Below is the list of Visual Studio related sessions. The full conference list is posted here . Didn't buy a pass? Don't worry. Tune in to http://2009.visitmix.com to watch sessions live, Read More...
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Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
15 March 09 01:58 PM
Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techdays Read More...
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Tips and Tricks for Finding Information in the MSDN Library (Mary Lee)
14 March 09 08:37 AM
When you have a question about how an API works, most of you will look in the MSDN Library .  There are some tips and tricks to finding what you need in this vast resource.  First of all, there are two main ways you can read the content in the Read More...
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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
01 March 09 10:00 AM
In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files. In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat : As I mentioned in the first post, I’m Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 Voted Best IDE! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
01 March 09 07:50 AM
The results from InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards are in. Visual Studio 2008 was voted Best IDE, with the following commentary: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications Read More...
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