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VB Goes Mobile: Announcing “Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools – RTW"

November 29th, 2010
With the release of Windows Phone Developer Tools in September, and the availability of Windows Phone 7 devices in stores, the Windows Phone platform is growing. Today marks another milestone in the progression of Windows Phone. Today we are announcing Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools - RTW. This release doubles the developer ...

Visual Basic 2010 is here!

April 15th, 2010
It was a very exciting time this week, with the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. On April 12th, 5 launch events took place around the world in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore, London and Las Vegas. The video from Bob Muglia’s VS 2010 Launch keynote is now available on-demand. (image) The agenda for day was VS 2010 sessions, ...

Visual Basic “How Do I” Videos

October 21st, 2009
We’ve started two new “How Do I” videos series on the Visual Basic Developer Center. More to come, but here’s the latest! (image...

Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2!

October 20th, 2009
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...

History of Microsoft Video: Bill Gates Talks about Altair Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 24th, 2009
A few months ago, Tina started a great series on Channel9 that walks through the history of Microsoft, year by year: The History of Microsoft In the first episode, Bill Gates talks about what it was like to build Altair Basic. He actually shows the tape that represents the instructions for Basic! Lots of rare footage, and an entertaining ...

InfoQ Article on the Future of VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 24th, 2009
For those of you who prefer text over audio, here's a recent InfoQ article that was released based on the podcast I did with Joe Stagner:InfoQ: Is There a Future for VB.NET...

TechEd Video: Future Directions for Visual Basic, by Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Aneja

June 20th, 2009
As part of the new VB/C# co-evolution strategy, Visual Studio Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg has broadened his role. In addition to being Chief Architect for C#, he now sets the direction for both the VB.NET and C# languages. At TechEd, Anders participated in both the VB.NET and C# language presentations. In watching these sessions, you ...

Misfit Geek Podcast – Episode #2 "Does VB have a Future?" (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 19th, 2009
The Misfit Geek, Joe Stagner, asked me this provocative question in a recent episode on his new podcast series: "Does VB have a Future?". Tune in to hear more details on my answer, which of course is YES! :) We talk about plans for increasing the VB.NET content across Microsoft, the great innovations that are happening in VB.NET, idea sharing ...

VB Entity Framework Samples Now Available (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 19th, 2009
There are a lot of great Entity Framework samples on Code Gallery that you can now find available in Visual Basic .NET. This was recently announced on the ADO.NET team blog. Browse through the list below and start downloading! ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples (Download)ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples is a small Windows Forms ...

Try Out Dotfuscator in VS 2010 Beta 1!

June 10th, 2009
The team at PreEmptive Solutions recently posted a great blog article that walks through all the latest features in VS 2010's Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition (previously known as Dotfuscator CE). Browse through the article to learn what's new, or download the beta to follow along in the IDE.What's New with Dotfuscator in ...