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October 2008 - Page 2 of 3 - Visual Basic Blog

Community Interview with Matt Gertz (Beth Massi)

October 17, 2008 Oct 17, 2008 10/17/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Matt Gertz. Matt still posts frequently on the VB Team blog even though he's changed roles (look at how big his name still is in our tag cloud on the right ;-)). Matt is a great technical leader here at Microsoft and he really loves the ...

Community Interview with Jared Parsons (Beth Massi)

October 15, 2008 Oct 15, 2008 10/15/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Jared Parsons, a Developer on the VB Team. Jared is a great developer and loves the community. You can check out his personal blog here.You can also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the ...

Community Interview with Patrick Dengler (Beth Massi)

October 13, 2008 Oct 13, 2008 10/13/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we interview Patrick Dengler. You can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well. Here's the interview with Patrick: 1...

Reflection on COM objects (Lucian Wischik)

October 12, 2008 Oct 12, 2008 10/12/08
VBTeam
Reflection on .Net objects is done through System.Type and is very easy. For instance, "Dim type = GetType(System.String)" and now you can look at all the members and inheritance hierarchy of the System.String class.Reflection on COM types is also easy if they have an interop assembly. For instance, add a project reference to the COM ...

VB Video Tutorials on ASP.Net Dynamic Data (Lisa Feigenbaum)

October 11, 2008 Oct 11, 2008 10/11/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Bill Burrows, VB MVP, has released some great videos on the ASP.Net Dynamic Data features that were added in VS2008 SP1. What is Dynamic Data?"ASP.Net Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application, based on a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model. It also adds great flexibility ...

Community Interview with Jonathan Aneja (Beth Massi)

October 10, 2008 Oct 10, 2008 10/10/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we interview Jonathan Aneja, VB Compiler Program Manager.Remember that you can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as ...

TechEd Online: .Net, A Multi-Language Platform (Lisa Feigenbaum)

October 9, 2008 Oct 9, 2008 10/9/08
VBTeam
Bart and Lisa Simpson - well actually, Bart de Smet and I recorded an interview about the .Net Managed Languages. :) You can find that interview on the TechEd Online South Africa library page. Otherwise, you can also launch the video directly from here. Below is the abstract from our discussion:.NET, A Multi-Language Platform In...

VB Catch … When: Why so special?

October 9, 2008 Oct 9, 2008 10/9/08
VBTeam
The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When.  It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type.  Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception. Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the ...

Community Interview with Lisa Feigenbaum (Beth Massi)

October 8, 2008 Oct 8, 2008 10/8/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we interview Lisa Feigenbaum, now a Visual Basic Community Program Manager! Cool!Remember that you can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to ...