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Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight: VB QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To Topics released! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 March 09 08:37 PM
Today the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team released a download aimed to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. It includes VB versions of the QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To topics: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=537da1cd-43e1-4799-88e7-a1da9166fb46 Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps (Beth Massi, Milind Lele)
24 March 09 12:01 PM
Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps . At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that Read More...
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New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry (Beth Massi)
06 January 09 01:14 PM
Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here . The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
26 November 08 12:00 PM
I just posted a new Channel 9 video with Milind Lele , Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team.  In this interview Milind shows one of the new RAD improvements I was talking about that is coming to WPF in Visual Studio 2010 -- Drag-Drop Read More...
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Drag-drop data binding for WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Milind Lele)
19 November 08 12:39 PM
One of the improvements in VS2010 (CTP available for download here ) is drag and drop data binding for WPF. Drag-drop data binding has been available for WinForms since Visual Studio 2005. So those of you that are familiar with that will find the WPF Read More...
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New WPF How Do I Videos Released! (Beth Massi)
04 November 08 08:02 AM
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Read More...
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Are you using Windows Presentation Foundation with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
09 September 08 01:30 PM
After watching this video, you just might be convinced to try it out! VB MVP Billy Hollis demonstrates that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is about a lot more than just pretty UI. He shows how the technology can be used in an extremely useful way, Read More...
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How-Do-I Videos: WPF Forms over Data (Beth Massi)
17 July 08 02:34 PM
If you haven't noticed, we released a couple new how-to videos on the VB Dev Center starting a new series which is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008. The videos are also being featured Read More...
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Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
17 June 08 07:30 AM
In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA. In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels. (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be Read More...
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Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)
16 June 08 10:21 PM
As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State? On the one hand, biology was something I’d Read More...
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"Git Over Here": Making Your Windows Mind Their Manners (Matt Gertz)
03 April 08 11:50 AM
Supporting the “pajama programmer” Telecommuting is a great thing, and as the environmentally-conscious person that I strive to be, is something I wholeheartedly endorse when it can be done practically. My current job involves a lot of face-to-face meetings Read More...
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Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion - Final Chapters (Young Joo)
29 January 08 03:02 PM
I've just posted a final set of chapters (Chapters 25 - 31). This completes our conversion efforts and you now have access to entire sample code from Petzold's book in VB. I would like to thank Evan and Ged who have been working with me on this. You guys Read More...
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Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion - New Chapters (Young Joo)
07 January 08 11:59 AM
Happy new year! Hope you enjoyed your holiday break! And hopefully you found some time to read Petzold's book and try out VB samples we've posted so far. :) Evan and Ged had been working very hard to convert rest of chapters throughout December and I Read More...
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Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)
26 November 07 11:35 AM
If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008 , you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine . It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize Read More...
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Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion Update (Young Joo)
24 November 07 04:21 AM
Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold's WPF book converted to VB . In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month. Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we've been able to make Read More...
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