July 2008 | Visual Basic Blog

Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant (Beth Massi)

Beth MassiJuly 28, 2008Jul 28, 200807/28/08

Today I posted an interview screencast on Channel 9. In this interview, Jared Parsons, a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex. The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke signatures and vice versa. Say goodbye to digging through random ...

Channel 9 Interview: Look Who's Working on Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

Beth MassiJuly 23, 2008Jul 23, 200807/23/08

Last month when I was in Redmond I was pulled into a photo with some of the people working on Visual Basic. Do you notice something quirky about these pictures (besides me)? Yes, they are all wearing grey shirts! There's apparently a running joke going on with how Jonathan Aneja (top row, 4th from the left in the first picture) only wears grey...

WANTED: Your feedback on a potential Call Hierarchy feature (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumJuly 22, 2008Jul 22, 200807/22/08

Last post, I introduced the VS Languages Future Focus page on Code Gallery. This time, we'd like to get your feedback on another potential IDE feature: Call Hierarchy.Please find a description of the feature here:http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vslangfutures/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Call%20Hierarchy&referringTitle=HomePlease leave your ...

WANTED: Your feedback on a potential Quick Search & Navigate feature (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa FeigenbaumJuly 21, 2008Jul 21, 200807/21/08

We've started a new page on Code Gallery called "Future Focus", to collect your feedback on ideas that we're considering for future versions of Visual Studio.The latest post is regarding an IDE feature to help you quickly search for and navigate to symbols in your code. Please see a description of the feature here:http://code....

Community Article: Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 1 (Beth Massi)

Beth MassiJuly 18, 2008Jul 18, 200807/18/08

This week on the VB Dev Center we're featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de Beijer (VB MVP) on Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation. Maurice has a great wiki as well that you should check out if you're doing Windows Workflow development. In this article he shows you how to use ...

How-Do-I Videos: WPF Forms over Data (Beth Massi)

Beth MassiJuly 17, 2008Jul 17, 200807/17/08

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 on www.WindowsClient.net today. Look for many more in the coming weeks!Enjoy,-...

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