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Come hear about VB 2008 Tips & Tricks at TechEd US! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
04 June 08 12:46 AM

The VB team has two great sessions coming up on Wednesday June 4th, covering tips & tricks for the language and IDE. Abstracts are below. Hope to see you there! TLA319 Microsoft Visual Basic 2008: Microsoft LINQ Language Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Lisa Feigenbaum, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB2008, TechEd2008

VSLive San Francisco Content (Amanda Silver)
31 March 08 02:19 PM

All - I'm about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=LaunchVB&ReleaseId=805 Read More...

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Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 (Amanda Silver)
20 November 07 10:24 PM

Yesterday I promised to post about the hidden gems in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 that you haven’t read about in blog posts or seen at conferences. I forgot that I mentioned a few of my favorite features in the Beta1 announcement where I Read More...

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Visual Basic 2008 Ships!!! (Amanda Silver)
19 November 07 09:27 AM

Hooray! Today we’ve finally shipped Visual Studio 2008, previously known as “Orcas”, previously known as some symbol which doesn’t have an ascii representation. We’ve come a long way , but it’s been a great ride. In Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB_Express, Extension_Methods, Orcas, Visual Basic History, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, IQueryable

Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!
26 July 07 10:02 AM

Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM's face on that landing page -- he's so happy the Beta is done.) What’s inside? So Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Paul Vick, LINQ/VB9, IDE, Scott Wisniewski, Orcas, VB2008

AmandaS' LINQ talk at VSLive Orlando
07 May 07 10:21 PM

I escaped from Redmond this week to present at VSLive Orlando on LINQ in Visual Studio Orcas. As promised, please find the slides and demos included as an attachment below. As mentioned during the talk – that was intended to be an overview. If you want Read More...

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Attachment(s):2007.zip

Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)
19 April 07 04:20 PM

Woohoo! Its official , we finally got Orcas Beta1 out the door! We’re very excited to get this release out to you so we can finally talk about some of the stuff we’ve been working on in addition to the LINQ and XML feature-set. We believe that Orcas Beta1 Read More...

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Attachment(s):VariableNames.bmp

Paper on XML features of VB9
07 April 06 03:09 PM

Just wanted to point out a paper Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer wrote on the XML features of VB9. Read More...

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New VB9 Bloggers
16 March 06 06:02 PM

By Amanda Silver I just wanted to let you know that we’re working furiously on turning the VB9 features into an actual product, understanding how the debugger and editor should support them, and getting another CTP out to you all. Your feedback so far Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, Data_Design, Orcas