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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download.  We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack.  In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center.&nbs...

We’ve heard from you that popular hotfixes should be a public download rather than requiring a call to support.   Based your feedback, we’ve launched a pilot program that will allow you to download the most frequently requested Visual Basic 2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support.  For more inf...

Recently the VB team released the Interop Forms Toolkit, which allows VB6 developers to extend their existing applications using .NET.  The toolkit allows developers to write a regular Windows Form in VB.NET, click “Generate Wrapper Classes”, and then call those forms from VB6.  It also provides mechanisms for firing and handling events, ...

All, I recently went on a trip to 3 Asian countries, and thought I would share the notes.Here’s my summary of the recent trip a colleague and I made to Asia. The trip was cut short due to a typhoon in Manila, which was a real shame: my colleague and I were very much looking forward to seeing the Philippines. However, the trip was st...

The .NET Framework teams are providing several Live Meeting presentations spanning application technologies like Smart Clients, Web 2.0 (AJAX) and Mobile.  Check out SimonMu's blog for more information:http://blogs.msdn.com/simonmu/archive/2006/10/09/The-next-series-of-team-member-Live-From-Redmond-webcasts.aspxSimon also pointed me to a great...

by Kathleen McGrath If you're a Visual Basic developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET, you should check out this new MSDN article:  A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0There's also a number of introductory webcasts and multimedia presentations at Learn ASP.NET 

by Kathleen McGrathI've created a screencast that shows you how to create a Windows form in Visual Basic 2005 that you can call from your Visual Basic 6 application using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. The screencast is about 6 minutes long.Interop Forms Toolkit Screencast

I’m excited to announce that the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack has been released and is now available for download on MSDN!  In this release we have two components:  Both components are fully supported, and we’ve included the source code for the Interop Toolkit as well.  For more information check out http://msd...

By Kathleen McGrathThe beta release of Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 SE) was announced today. VSTO 2005 SE is a free add-on for Visual Studio (Professional or above) that enables you to create add-ins for the most popular Office 2007 and Office 2003 applications. You can get VSTO 2005 SE Beta here.