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Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2!

There were a lot of Microsoft announcements that happened yesterday! Many of these happened during Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the SharePoint Developers Conference (Video, Twitter). Here is the list: MSDN subscribers can download Beta 2 now!  We will be opening up Beta 2 for everyone to download starting this Wednesday. In honor...

I'm A VB: Lluis Franco

(image)   Website: http://geeks.ms/blogs/lfranco  ·        How long have you been using VB?Visual Basic? Since VB 3.0, but I have been using other Basic in the 80's ;-) ·        What industry do you work in?Currently I work in a ...

I'm A VB: Jorge Serrano, Visual Basic MVP

(image)   Website: http://geeks.ms/blogs/jorge/  ·        How long have you been using VB?In the University had the opportunity of use VB 1 (one floppy disk of 3 1/2 1.44 Mb). It was a little bit odd in a first moment, but a few time later I used VB 3 (7 or 8 floppy disks, I don't ...

I'm A VB: Earl Vella

 ·        How long have you been using VB?9 years, hah saying it makes it look like it was yesterday.  started with Basic on my father's massive ... well you cant really call something that big a 'PC'. was introduced to Visual basic 6 by a friend and was addicted to it. Just as a modern ...

I'm A VB: Bob Swan

 ·        How long have you been using VB?12 years  ·        How big is your development team?4 ·        Please tell us about an app that you’re working on at the moment.App used...

I'm A VB: Naveed Iqbal

 ·        How long have you been using VB?Since 1998 (VB6), its the first language I learnt. I took a free 'learn VB in 24 hours' course online during my free time in highschool ·        What industry do you work in?I'm a software engineer/...

I'm A VB: Abbass El-Outa

(image)   Website: http://www.abbass.tk  ·        How long have you been using VB?I have been using VB for 7 years. I started with Visual Basic 6, and 3 years later I learnt VB.net. ·        What industry do you work in?-...

I'm A VB: Anders Borg

(image) Website: http://www.abiro.com  ·        How long have you been using VB?Since 1998 I think (starting with VB6). ·        What industry do you work in?None in particular ·        How...

I'm A VB: Mohamed Jbeli

Website: http://www.tunisia-sat.com  ·        How long have you been using VB?2 years ·        What industry do you work in?electronics ·        How big is your development team?6 devs...