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    August 2008 - Visual Basic Blog

    Nice to meet you! A Nine Question Interview (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    Nice to meet you! A Nine Question Interview (Lisa Feigenbaum)
    August 29, 2008 Aug 29, 2008 08/29/08
    Lisa Feigenbaum
    Chris Williams (VB MVP) started an interview series on his blog. In the series, he interviews various members in the technical community by asking them 9 questions. If you've read my blog posts and are interested to get to know me a little better, check out my 9 answers to Chris' questions!http://www.ninequestions.net/If you want to ...

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    How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
    How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
    August 28, 2008 Aug 28, 2008 08/28/08
    VBTeam
    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 ...

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    Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
    Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
    August 22, 2008 Aug 22, 2008 08/22/08
    Beth Massi
    Today I posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. New Editor Features in Visual Studio ...

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    VB 2008 Language Deep Dive – Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)
    VB 2008 Language Deep Dive – Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)
    August 21, 2008 Aug 21, 2008 08/21/08
    VBTeam
    Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008.  It was great to see so much excitement around LINQ and especially XML Literals!   The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; here’s the session abstract (with links inserted so you can find ...

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    Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
    Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
    August 15, 2008 Aug 15, 2008 08/15/08
    Beth Massi
    Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element or namespace and select "Show in XML Schema Explorer" in Visual Basic programs. It's a nice ...

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    VS2008 SP1 and NetFX3.5 SP1 Released (Adam Braden)
    VS2008 SP1 and NetFX3.5 SP1 Released (Adam Braden)
    August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
    VBTeam
    Today we shipped Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5.  This is the first time we’ve release both a VS SP and a .NetFramework SP at the same time!  Additionally, we released ENU, JPN and 8 additional languages that ship with SQL 2008 at the same time!  See the announcement on Soma&...

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    Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1 (Beth Massi)
    Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1 (Beth Massi)
    August 8, 2008 Aug 8, 2008 08/8/08
    Beth Massi
    I just posted a new Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele, a PM on the VS Pro Tools team. In this interview Milind shows us the improvements made to the tooling in Visual Studio SP1 for occasionally connected clients as well as the new data type support for SQL Server 2008. Using SQL 2008 built-in change tracking, you don't need to make ...

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    Co- and contra-variance (Lucian Wischik)
    Co- and contra-variance (Lucian Wischik)
    August 7, 2008 Aug 7, 2008 08/7/08
    VBTeam
    How do I convert an IEnumerable(Of CheckingAccount) into an IEnumerable(Of Account) ? (where CheckingAccount inherits from Account).Currently this conversion isn't allowed, but we're considering a VB language feature to support it. The topic is called "co- and contravariance", and has been in the CLR since 2005 or so, but no one's yet released...

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