A group blog from members of the VB team
January 31, 2008Jan 31, 200801/31/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series.
After my post on joins, I’ve had some questions about outer joins. As you can see in part 6, VB9 doesn’t have smooth support for Left or Right join.
January 30, 2008Jan 30, 200801/30/08I once had to learn how to juggle in a very brief time in order to get an “A” in my high school computer science class. I am not making this up. The idea was that juggling, being a systemic process,
January 29, 2008Jan 29, 200801/29/08I’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.
January 22, 2008Jan 22, 200801/22/08In addition to Connect, you can now report Visual Basic bugs directly in the Visual Basic Forums. The forum posts get entered as a bug or product suggestion into VB’s internal bug tracking system. With this we hope to take Forums (our vibrant online channel for feedback) a step further by making it easier to submit bugs and product suggestions.
January 19, 2008Jan 19, 200801/19/08
One of the things we have been working on recently was publishing sources of VisualBasic runtime library. I am very excited to announce that the sources of VB runtime (Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll) are publicly available now! This is a part of a more general work on making .Net Framework sources available to public ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx ).
January 17, 2008Jan 17, 200801/17/08Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard. He also shows the differences between how IntelliSense works with axis properties on XDocument and XElement objects and speaks to how the wizard can infer multiple schemas from multiple sources —
January 11, 2008Jan 11, 200801/11/08Our goal in designing VB2008 IntelliSense was to make users of the feature the most productive that they could be. One problem we found in watching people use the feature, is that sometimes intelliSense displays so many items that it is hard to know whether or not you’re close to the item you’re looking for.
January 10, 2008Jan 10, 200801/10/08There’s a lot of cool functionality built into VS debugger datatips that often goes unnoticed… For example, did you know that not only can you *see* values in the expanded datatips, but you can also edit them? Watch the following walk-through…
January 9, 2008Jan 9, 200801/9/08Just like Alt+Tab for Windows you can use Ctrl+Tab for Visual Studio. Ctrl+Tab will show you the active tool windows *and* the active files, so it is a good navigation tool for both. VS2008 has even added a cool miniature-sized visualization to this view,
January 9, 2008Jan 9, 200801/9/08With the help of one little hotkey, you can now make the VS2008 IntelliSense list transparent! Just press
CTRL. This is especially convenient when you need to see the code underneath the list.
Watch it in action 🙂
