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New article on customizing My

There's a new article up on MSDN by Joe Binder about customizing the My feature in VB 2005. It covers customizing existing features like My.User and My.Computer.Network. You can also learn how to extend the My namespace and add your own members.Check it out here.(Posted by Steven Lees...

A new home for the data team (aka Steve Lasker)

For those that have been following our team blog under the VB Team blog, we've moved to our new home @ http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/default.aspx.  Why did we move?  There were many of us that weren't that into blogging way back when.  One of our previous team members, Robert Green, set up a team blog that we could ...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper?

(by Adam Braden)Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regarding a description of the bootstrapper, what is a homesite, how the bootstrapper resource strings are being sim-shipped allowing you ...

Soma Blogs about Refactor!

(posted by Adam Braden)In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution - Refactor!http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/06/03/424915.aspxIf you haven't seen it yet, it is a must to download.Enjoy,Adam ...