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History of Microsoft Video: Bill Gates Talks about Altair Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)
24 June 09 08:00 AM
A few months ago, Tina started a great series on Channel9 that walks through the history of Microsoft, year by year: The History of Microsoft In the first episode, Bill Gates talks about what it was like to build Altair Basic. He actually shows the tape Read More...
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InfoQ Article on the Future of VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)
24 June 09 12:02 AM
For those of you who prefer text over audio, here's a recent InfoQ article that was released based on the podcast I did with Joe Stagner : InfoQ: Is There a Future for VB.NET? Read More...
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TechEd Video: Future Directions for Visual Basic, by Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Aneja
20 June 09 08:35 AM
As part of the new VB/C# co-evolution strategy , Visual Studio Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg has broadened his role. In addition to being Chief Architect for C#, he now sets the direction for both the VB.NET and C# languages. At TechEd, Anders participated Read More...
Misfit Geek Podcast - Episode #2 "Does VB have a Future?" (Lisa Feigenbaum)
19 June 09 10:57 AM
The Misfit Geek, Joe Stagner , asked me this provocative question in a recent episode on his new podcast series : "Does VB have a Future?". Tune in to hear more details on my answer, which of course is YES! :) We talk about plans for increasing Read More...
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VB Entity Framework Samples Now Available (Lisa Feigenbaum)
18 June 09 10:45 PM
There are a lot of great Entity Framework samples on Code Gallery that you can now find available in Visual Basic .NET. This was recently announced on the ADO.NET team blog . Browse through the list below and start downloading! ADO.NET Entity Framework Read More...
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Try Out Dotfuscator in VS 2010 Beta 1!
10 June 09 06:03 PM
The team at PreEmptive Solutions recently posted a great blog article that walks through all the latest features in VS 2010's Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition (previously known as Dotfuscator CE). Browse through the article to learn what's Read More...
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VS2010 Beta1 Extensibility News (Lisa Feigenbaum)
10 June 09 09:47 AM
I recently received this letter from the Visual Studio Extensibility team, that I thought would be interesting to readers of this blog. Whether you're building Visual Studio extensions or downloading them from others, there's news here for you.   Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Released Today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
20 May 09 01:56 PM
The public availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 was announced today on Jason Zander's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/20/general-download-of-vs2010-net-framework-4-0-beta-1.aspx Below are some resources to Read More...
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Channel9 Interview with Luca Bolognese: VB.NET and C# Co-Evolution (Lisa Feigenbaum)
19 May 09 07:28 PM
There was a great Channel9 video posted last week on the future directions of VB.NET and C# and how they are related. Charles Torre interviewed Luca Bolognese, who is currently the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. Please see below for more Read More...
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CodeRush Xpress Released Today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
14 May 09 08:19 PM
CodeRush Xpress is a FREE Visual Studio 2008 add-in containing 60+ refactorings, 7 editing features, and full support for C# and Visual Basic. Download here CodeRush Xpress includes the following features. Duplicate Line Highlight All References Increase Read More...
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CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi (Lisa Feigenbaum, Beth Massi)
06 May 09 11:26 PM
Code Cast Episode 20: Interview with Beth Massi This show's interview is Ken interviewing Beth Massi, Microsoft, program manager on Microsoft’s BizApps team in the VS group. Beth discusses her work over the past two years at Microsoft on the VB Read More...
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Ask Kathleen: Working with MEF (Lisa Feigenbaum)
05 May 09 08:34 AM
MEF stands for Managed Extensibility Framework. MEF is a new .NET library that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can be dynamically composed. Kathleen has a great article on MEF in last month's edition Read More...
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CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
04 May 09 08:07 PM
Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor! . The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other Read More...
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CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum
03 May 09 08:15 AM
I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode Read More...
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XML Literals, WCF and LINQ Article by Steele Price (Lisa Feigenbaum)
02 May 09 02:02 PM
Steele wrote a great article in last month's issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for Read More...
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