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VB 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
14 May 08 11:54 PM

Last week I went on a user group tour around Southern California. I've uploaded the materials from my talk: Powerpoint presentation Solution at the Start of the Demo Solution at the End of the Demo You can find these all posted together on the following Read More...

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Come join me on a Southern California user group tour (Lisa Feigenbaum)
05 May 08 02:36 AM

I will be presenting on the VB IDE in Southern California this week at a series of user group meetings. The events will be held in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area . Charlie Calvert from the C# team will be flying down from Redmond to speak as well. Read More...

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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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#6 Did you know? You can now manage your snippet highlighting (Lisa Feigenbaum)
15 March 08 01:50 PM

Do you use code snippets (introduced in VB 2005)? If you do, then you've probably noticed the green highlighting that stays around for the lifetime of the file. We've heard *a lot* of feedback that once you are done customizing the snippet, it is distracting Read More...

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Source code of Visual Basic runtime has been released to public. (Vladimir)
19 January 08 08:01 AM

One of the things we have been working on recently was publishing sources of VisualBasic runtime library. I am very excited to announce that the sources of VB runtime (Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll) are publicly available now! This is a part of a more general Read More...

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Filed under: IDE, Orcas, VB2008, Debugger, Vladimir

#5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
11 January 08 09:30 AM

Our goal in designing VB2008 IntelliSense was to make users of the feature the most productive that they could be. One problem we found in watching people use the feature, is that sometimes intelliSense displays so many items that it is hard to know whether Read More...

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#4 Did you know? What you can do with Debugger Datatips... (Lisa Feigenbaum)
10 January 08 09:30 AM

There's a lot of cool functionality built into VS debugger datatips that often goes unnoticed... For example, did you know that not only can you *see* values in the expanded datatips, but you can also edit them ? Watch the following walk-through... While Read More...

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#3 Did you know? Ctrl+Tab to navigate windows in VS (Lisa Feigenbaum)
09 January 08 09:30 AM

Just like Alt+Tab for Windows you can use Ctrl+Tab for Visual Studio. Ctrl+Tab will show you the active tool windows *and* the active files, so it is a good navigation tool for both. VS2008 has even added a cool miniature-sized visualization to this view, Read More...

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#2 Did you know? IntelliSense is now transparent in VS2008! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
08 January 08 11:00 PM

With the help of one little hotkey, you can now make the VS2008 IntelliSense list transparent! Just press CTRL . This is especially convenient when you need to see the code underneath the list. Watch it in action :) Read More...

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#1 Did you know? IntelliSense Everywhere (Lisa Feigenbaum)
08 January 08 04:52 PM

I've decided to start a "Did you know?" series with tips & tricks. First off is my favorite IDE feature in VB2008: IntelliSense Everywhere! Did you know about all the new places where you can now find intelliSense in VB2008? If you're like me, once Read More...

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Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!
12 December 07 08:00 AM

I released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum , PM on the VB Team where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all the new Read More...

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Attachment(s):RefactorDemo.zip

Launching External Tools from inside Visual Studio (Jonathan Aneja)
27 November 07 08:08 PM

Visual Studio has a small but extremely useful feature that allows you to hook external tools directly into the IDE’s Tools menu. All you have to do is click Tools->External Tools… and then you can add your own custom menu items that will launch a 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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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB_Express, Extension_Methods, Orcas, VB2008, IQueryable

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

Refactoring in Action (Lisa Feigenbaum)
03 November 07 07:29 PM

Have you downloaded the latest Refactoring tools from Developer Express? There is a free version available on the Visual Basic Developer Center . Once you download, you will discover a number of cool capabilities you can now do in the Visual Basic IDE. Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, IDE