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February 2011 - Visual Basic Blog

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #4. How to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application

February 28, 2011 Feb 28, 2011 02/28/11
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In our last post, I explained how to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application. A model-view-viewmodel pattern is used to separate data from the user interface. This pattern ...

Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #1. How to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7

February 23, 2011 Feb 23, 2011 02/23/11
VBTeam
I have experienced a lot of fun writing Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic. Web browser is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to share some sample source code that will help you to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to...

Visual Studio is Hiring

February 8, 2011 Feb 8, 2011 02/8/11
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Do you want to work on a product used by millions of developers around the world?  I do!  Come join me to deliver Visual Studio, the set of developer tools used across Microsoft and around the world.  We have open positions available across Test, Dev and PM at varying levels on many projects across Visual Studio Professional.&...