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Experience PDC 2008 whenever and wherever – for FREE! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 2, 2008 Nov 2, 2008 11/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
That's right... All sessions from last week's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles have been videotaped and made available for FREE on Channel9.https://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/Check it out and enjoy the conference. :) For photos, see the "PDC2008" tag on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pdc2008&m=tags&s=int...

TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 2, 2008 Nov 2, 2008 11/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Software Engineer) gave an awesome presentation on the Future of VB. The presentation&...

VB 2010 Unveiled at PDC 2008! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 2, 2008 Nov 2, 2008 11/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Last week at the Professional Developers Conference, we made a number of very exciting announcements regarding the future of Visual Basic. Here is the list of VB 2010 features we've announced: So many exciting features to look forward to! Stay tuned for more blog posts and videos which illustrate these features in more...

Shell Games (Matt Gertz)

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship.  I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have to ship without delay, and that any major failure in the deliverable could ...

Community Interview with Adrian 'Spotty' Bowles (Beth Massi)

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Beth Massi
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Adrian Bowles (who's nickname is Spotty), a Tester on the VB Compiler. Someday Spotty will have to tell us how he got his nickname.Please check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the ...

Community Interview with Sophia Salim (Beth Massi)

October 29, 2008 Oct 29, 2008 10/29/08
Beth Massi
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Sophia Salim, a Tester on the VB Compiler. I'm very happy to see Sophia reach out to the community and am looking forward to more interesting posts from her here. I'm always interested in what really goes on ...

Community Interview with John Stallo (Beth Massi)

October 27, 2008 Oct 27, 2008 10/27/08
Beth Massi
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole with John Stallo, a Program Manager working on RAD tools. I first met John on my interview loop at Microsoft. What immediately stuck me when I met him was his Italian name but he has a very cool Australian accent. Being that we both have an Italian heritage, in ...

Community Interview with Eric Knox (Beth Massi)

October 25, 2008 Oct 25, 2008 10/25/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Eric Knox, Development Manager on the VB IDE Team. I got to know Eric at TechEd this year where we had a lot of fun floating in the pool on bright pink inner-tubes. ;-) You can also see Eric in the interview I did with the IDE Team a while ...

Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)

October 23, 2008 Oct 23, 2008 10/23/08
Beth Massi
If you missed it, this week a new community submitted article was released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. In this article learn how to control the Vista operating system's speech recognition engine in .NET from a custom task pane in Microsoft ...

Community Interview with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)

October 22, 2008 Oct 22, 2008 10/22/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we have Bill Horst, a tester on the VB Team. You might know Bill from his awesome series of blog posts on Converting SQL to LINQ.Also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic ...