The Visual Basic Team : Kathleen McGrath

Implicit Line Continuation (Kathleen McGrath)

VBTeam — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:32:53 GMT

In the second part of my interview with Doug Rothaus, he describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010. Learn about the most common scenarios that no longer require the underscore character (_) in the topic, Statements in Visual Basic.

See the Video: implicit Line Continuation

--Kathleen McGrath
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Auto-Implemented Properties (Kathleen McGrath)

VBTeam — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:46:04 GMT

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the auto-implemented properties in Visual Basic 2010. He also demonstrates some of the code examples in his Help topic: Auto-Implemented Properties.

See the Video: Auto-Implement Properties.

--Kathleen

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)

VBTeam — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:42:00 GMT

With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project.

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks?

This video is based on the topic: How to: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks, where you can get the code and follow along step-by-step.

Enjoy,
Kathleen

Visual Studio Content - Tell Us What You Think! (Beth Massi)

VBTeam — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:26:00 GMT

The documentation team has just released a survey aimed at gathering feedback on Visual Studio content. Are you dying to tell us what you think about the Visual Studio content in the MSDN library? Please share your perspective by taking part in the Visual Studio Content Survey. The survey is completely anonymous and doesn't require that you fill in any personal information. It should take about 10 minutes to complete.

Visit Kathleen's blog for more information. Thanks for helping us improve our documentation!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, VS Community

VB Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET

VBTeam — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:55:00 GMT

by Kathleen McGrath

If you're a Visual Basic developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET, you should check out this new MSDN article: A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0

There's also a number of introductory webcasts and multimedia presentations at Learn ASP.NET

Video Screencast: Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0

VBTeam — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:14:00 GMT

by Kathleen McGrath

I've created a screencast that shows you how to create a Windows form in Visual Basic 2005 that you can call from your Visual Basic 6 application using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. The screencast is about 6 minutes long.

Interop Forms Toolkit Screencast

Create Add-ins for Office 2007 with Visual Basic

VBTeam — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:12:00 GMT

By Kathleen McGrath

The beta release of Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 SE) was announced today. VSTO 2005 SE is a free add-on for Visual Studio (Professional or above) that enables you to create add-ins for the most popular Office 2007 and Office 2003 applications. You can get VSTO 2005 SE Beta here.

Visual Basic Express Edition Videos

VBTeam — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:58:00 GMT

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 particular option is located. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, so imagine what a video can do.

I'm creating a series of video demonstrations that follow the Visual Basic Guided Tour in the Visual Basic Express documentation as a way to supplement the great content you'll find there. My first set of videos are based on Creating Your First Visual Basic Program.

You can watch the video for each topic individually:

Step 1: Create a Project in Visual Basic	View Video Screencast
Step 2: Create a User Interface	View Video Screencast
Step 3: Customize Looks and Behavior	View Video Screencast
Step 4: Add Visual Basic Code	View Video Screencast
Step 5: Run and Test Your Program	View Video Screencast

Or watch the entire process:

Creating Your First Visual Basic Program

View Video Screencast

Enjoy! And please feel free to send me your feedback about these video screencasts.

-- Kathleen