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No new VB and C# Language Features in VS 2013

July 17, 2013 Jul 17, 2013 07/17/13
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
As you can see in the VS2013 Preview, we have not added new language features to Visual Basic and C# in the next version of Visual Studio. I’d like to share our thinking on this. There are essentially two main reasons why we chose not to evolve the languages this time around.The most important is that we just shipped new versions of ...

Roslyn September 2012 CTP Available for Download!

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
VB Enthusiasts,Following last Wednesday’s official launch of Visual Studio 2012, we’re excited to announce that the Roslyn September 2012 CTP is now available for download and provides support for VS 2012 RTM. Please note that Visual Studio 2010 is no longer supported by this CTP.We’ve been hard at work since the first public...

Install Published Samples with Visual Studio

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
You can use Visual Studio 2012 RC  to download and install samples from the MSDN Code Gallery.  You can download only the samples you need, or you can download one or more Sample Packs, which group several samples that relate to a technology or topic. You'll receive a notification if source code changes are published for any sample ...

More VB Metro Samples available

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
With the recent release of the Windows 8 Release Preview and the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate we also have more of the Metro samples available for VB developers.Although not all the samples are available for VB, there is a good selection of samples showing  you how utilize much of the important functionality now available. &...

Announcing Microsoft “Roslyn” June 2012 CTP

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Hey, fellow VBs,Today, we're excited to announce that the Roslyn June 2012 CTP is now available for download!Since the first public release of Roslyn, we’ve been hard at work implementing new language features, addressing top customer feedback from the October CTP, iterating on our API design and improving performance across our IDE and ...

Kinect SDK v1.5 – Now with VB Samples !!!

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012 05/25/12
VBTeam
As developers start to realize the full potential of Microsoft Kinect and new hardware is made available for the PC it’s really great to see the Kinect team provide some sample support for VB developers.    For a while the Compilers team (who handle both VB and C# compilers) have been hearing VB developers  asking ...

New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting

December 12, 2011 Dec 12, 2011 12/12/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
For all those who have started venturing into developing windows phone applications, there are quite a few samples utilizing Silverlight, but the XNA content has been a little bit light.     (We are working on getting some more XNA VB samples online). But for those wanting to see a nice VB example of XNA development,&...

Updated Samples for WP7 Developers

August 26, 2011 Aug 26, 2011 08/26/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
For those VB developers who are developing (or keen to start developing) for WIndows Phone 7.  The samples have been updated and as you'll notice virtually all of them are in both C# and VB.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx   ...

Kinect SDK For PC – VB Samples available.

June 16, 2011 Jun 16, 2011 06/16/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Today, Microsoft announced the Kinect SDK for PC  http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx  VB Samples are there at launch and available for downloading  http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectSDKSamplesVB.zip    ...

VB Entity Framework Samples Now Available (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 19, 2009 Jun 19, 2009 06/19/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
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 ...