Visual Basic Blog

VB Support for Microsoft Surface 2.0

November 21, 2011 Nov 21, 2011 11/21/11

VBTeam

Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough.     For those who desire bigger touch screens, Microsoft surface may be the answer.     Microsoft surface has been around a while and there have been significant changes ...

Putting back functionality left out of VB Core – ( If you can't live without Mid when writing WP7 apps ;-) )

November 9, 2011 Nov 9, 2011 11/9/11

VBTeam

For development of windows phone applications a new feature was added to the Visual Basic compiler known as VB Core. This is a reduced version of the runtime designed to allow development for a broader variety of platforms without incurring the larger penalty of having a full VB runtime containing non-supported or older VB6 legacy ...