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A group blog from members of the VB team

VB Developer? Read MSDN Magazine? You're in luck! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

MSDN Magazine Editor in Chief, Howard Dierking, announced a number of changes to the magazine in the January 2009 Editor's Note. Among that list of changes was the following excerpt: "Furthermore, we recently began moving all of our article code samples to MSDN Code Gallery. This will allow our team to be much more agile in managing and ...

10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

It's a new week, and the 10-4 video podcast series continues! The topics for this week include an overview of VS 2010, and a special focus on the Start Page. Here's a description of the episode, from the creators:10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual ...

Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)

Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa.  She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her.  However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me.  (For those not steeped in American traditions, to “go with” a girl or boy in ...

Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team has announced 10-4, a new video podcast. 10-4 will feature different capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week! To get the episodes, visit the show's new home on Channel9:  https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/ There you will also have the option to ...