Visual Basic Blog

A group blog from members of the VB team

Announcements - Visual Basic Blog

The Silverlight Toolkit Adds Visual Basic Samples (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 26, 2009 Mar 26, 2009 03/26/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code. Please follow the links to view these samples for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. Silverlight 2: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html Silverlight 3: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl3/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/...

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion Update (Young Joo)

November 24, 2007 Nov 24, 2007 11/24/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold's WPF book converted to VB.   In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month.  Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we've been able to make so far.First, we now have a separate article page, Applications = ...

Petzold Chapter 3 (Young Joo)

November 5, 2007 Nov 5, 2007 11/5/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I am Young Joo, PM @ VB team.  I will be helping out Patrick on converting samples in Charles Petzold's WPF book (Applications = Code + Markup) to Visual Basic.  This is an exciting project and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.  Another exciting news is that we have an extra help for this project.  Evan Lim who ...

Slide Deck and Samples for LINQ Best Practices (Beth Massi)

June 13, 2007 Jun 13, 2007 06/13/07
Beth Massi
Lisa Feigenbaum gave a great webcast this morning on LINQ best practices (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck and the samples she used. Please Note: The sample code is based on a more recent build of Visual Studio 2008 so some of the Join syntax may not work in Beta 1.  We felt it ...

Visual Basic LINQ Samples Updated for Orcas Beta 1! (Beth Massi)

April 20, 2007 Apr 20, 2007 04/20/07
Beth Massi
The Visual Basic LINQ Samples have been updated for Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1! This is a set of 101 samples that demonstrate all the features of Visual Basic's Language Integrated Query in Orcas Beta 1. Also check out the The LINQ Project page. This has been updated with links to some news articles and quote highlights ...