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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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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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Working with Shortcut Keys (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 April 07 01:26 AM

Since we have so many Orcas posts going up on this blog, I've decided to continue with a few that you can use TODAY in Visual Studio 2005. This one is about working with shortcut keys... For those of you using the Visual Basic Development Settings, your Read More...

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Save Time – Use Keyboard Shortcuts! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
24 April 07 01:45 PM

Visual Studio is all about developer productivity. To help developers be more efficient, Visual Studio has built keyboard shortcuts into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface – just like CTRL-C for copy. To help Read More...

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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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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Basic 2005 Command-line Compiler (VBC.exe) Hotfix Released!
03 January 07 10:46 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download. We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed Read More...

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