The Visual Basic Team : Karen Liu

Happy 10th Birthday to the Italian VB Tips and Tricks Community! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT

"Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" is an Italian online community that was started 10 years ago today. To be exact, the first tips were actually published in 1996 on a personal web page of the founder and leader, Gianluca Cannalire. However, the group recognizes the first day of the "real community" as December 8th 1998, when a web portal was created with articles, forums, mailing lists, downloads, and tips. "Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" currently hosts 36,300 subscribers, and is the second largest Italian development community!

Visit it here: http://community.visual-basic.it/

The Microsoft Visual Basic team would like to thank all the people in the "VB T&T" community that share their knowledge, experiences and real life scenarios on the site every day, and congratulate them on their 10 years. In honor of this special event, we've created a fun video for you to enjoy. :)

Video: http://www.visual-basic.it/happybirthday_wmv.asp

In this video: Karen Liu (Lead IDE Program Manager), Kevin Halverson (VB Compiler Test Team), Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead), Lisa Feigenbaum (VB Community Program Manager). Thanks to Lucian for baking the cake and leading us in Italian, and to Kathleen McGrath (Visual Studio Content Architect) as well who produced the video.

Video: The Joy of Writing Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Karen Liu)

VBTeam — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:00:40 GMT

We've had a couple recent posts about the Code Focused development experience coming up in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE:

Code Focus Announcements in the TechEd EMEA Keynote

Code Focus Videos on Channel 9

Now for the ultimate coverage (a complete TechEd presentation on the subject), check out the following video by Karen Liu!

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/developer/tv/default.aspx?vid=80

Code Focused Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:36:43 GMT

Do you spend a lot of your day in code? (Writing code, navigating code, modifying code, understanding code, testing code, debugging code, etc.) If so, then the Visual Studio 2010 IDE has got a lot in store for you! In this release we're focusing on optimizing for code-focused development, which covers each of these tasks. There are a number of new features being added, designed to make your day easier. Here's the list:

Quick Search
- for better navigation...
Highlight References
- to better understand and navigate your code...
Call Hierarchy
- to better understand your code...
Generate from Usage
- to write code more quickly, and help with Test-Driven development...

The VS 2010 Editor has also been rewritten using WPF and MEF (Microsoft Extensibility Framework) which allow us to create features with better visualizations and make it easier to create killer add-ins.

Here are a few videos you can watch to see these features in action!

Channel9 videos with IDE lead, Karen Liu:

Jason Zander's TechEd EMEA Keynote

Visit the forums to submit your feedback.

Forums
- Test-driven Development Support with the Generate From Usage Feature (forum)
- Call Hierarchy (forum)
- Quick Search for Files and Symbols (forum)

Finally, download the CTP to try them out yourself! There are some great walkthroughs included in the CTP download, to help you explore the new features.

Where is the VB Team going to be over the next few months? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:26:00 GMT

We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-)

October 6-7, 2008

Software Development Conference 2008: http://www.sdc.nl/

Beth Massi

October 8-10, 2008

TechEd Hong Kong: http://www.microsoft.com/hk/technet/teched2008/

Karen Liu

October 21-23, 2008

OOPSLA: http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/

Dustin Campbell

October 27-30, 2008

Professional Developers Conference: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Paul Vick

Dustin Campbell

Lisa Feigenbaum

Alex Turner

November 8-9, 2008

Silicon Valley Code Camp: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com

Tim Ng

Beth Massi

November 10-13, 2008

DevConnections: http://www.devconnections.com/shows/FALL2008VS/default.asp?c=1&s=121

Lucian Wischik

Jay Schmelzer

Christin Boyd

John Stallo

November 10-14, 2008

TechEd EMEA: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/

Jonathan Aneja

Lisa Feigenbaum

Karen Liu

Paul Yuknewicz

John Durant

November 17-20, 2008

Spain user group tour, Barcelona to Madrid

Jonathan Aneja

Lisa Feigenbaum

November 19-20, 2008

TechSummit Berlin: http://www.technical-summit.de

Paul Yuknewicz

John Durant

December 1-2, 2008

DevTeach Montreal: http://www.devteach.com/

Beth Massi

January 7-9, 2009

Code Mash: http://www.codemash.org/

Dustin Campbell

Finally, you can also find us at the .Net Developers Association meeting in Bellevue, Washington the fourth Monday night each month. http://netda.net

Visual Basic and CSharp IDEs Uncensored (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Interested in hearing about what the Visual Basic and CSharp program managers *really* think about the two IDEs? Come join Karen Liu and me as we chat about the goals, similarities and differences of the VB & C# IDEs. We also discuss our favorite features and where we think IDEs are going in the future. This talk was recorded at TechEd North America 2008 Developers conference. The video is posted at the TechEd Online Library. You can also find a direct link here.