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Two free e-books available till April 22th to celebrate MS Press’s 25th b-day (Daniel Walzenbach)
16 April 09 02:30 PM
2009 is the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press ! To celebrate their b-bay they’re giving away two free e-books, namely Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion by Charlie Russel and Sharon Crawford (27 chapters, 3 appendices, 712 Read More...
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LINQ for the Web Using VB (By Paul Yuknewicz)
27 December 07 07:55 PM
Happy holidays! It's been a long time since I've written a post, so I figure I can bring in the new year answering some great questions submitted by you. Just this week someone gave me this feedback: "I am having a difficult time finding information to Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)
19 December 07 08:01 AM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and Read More...
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Higher Algebra with Operator Overloads (Brian Beckman)
19 December 07 08:00 AM
Recently I did a Channel 9 interview with Beth Massi where I walked through a Visual Basic program that used Generics and Operator overloads to perform some higher mathematics. I thought I'd follow up with a post explaining the details of exactly what 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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Creating Visual Basic Add-ins for Windows Home Server (Beth Massi)
08 November 07 11:00 AM
We recently announced the availability of Windows Home Server . Here's an interview on Channel 9 with Dev Lead, Chris Gray, where he talks about the extensibility model and then walks through how to create an add-in for the Home Server console using Visual Read More...
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Sons and Daughters Day: a pure blast!
15 July 07 04:35 PM
On Friday, Chris Smith and I (Chris is a test engineer on the VB Team) attended an event called 'Sons and Daughters' day. The day consisted of 2 sessions (20-25 kids in each) where kids aged 6-13 were run through a class of writing an app in VB (20-25 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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Visual Basic Express Edition Videos
13 September 06 12:58 PM
by Kathleen McGrath Have you ever wished that you could have someone show you how to accomplish a programming task instead of having to read through the steps on how to perform the task? Or maybe you just need a little more clarification about where a Read More...
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Beginners coding in ASP.NET
11 July 05 01:04 PM
posted by Emily Yaich Hello everyone! I am Emily Yaich and I am another one of the Microsoft Explorers working on the visual basic team. I have been here since the second week in June, and I am loving every minute of it! We haven't gotten into the heavy Read More...
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