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Some videos on VB futures have been posted on Channel9 at: · Paul Vick and Amanda Silver - VB Language Futures: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=116700 · Paul Vick and Erik Meijer - Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic https:...
We've gotten asked a few times what the VB 9.0 preview bits available here work on. It works on the RC candidate that's available on the PDC CD & for download on MSDN. Enjoy! - Amanda
Waiting for my ridiculously priced latte this morning (I am a Seattleite, after all) made me miss the intro to Eric’s keynote session. As I was walking toward exhibit Hall A, I noticed people conspicuously looking at me. I thought it was because I had a big LINQ button around my neck-- with everyone so excited about the technology they all w...
The first preview of the next version of Visual Basic goes live this morning! I’m sitting in Bill and Jim’s keynote right now, waiting for our announcement to be made public. The release is part of the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework, code-named “project LINQ”, which allows Visual Basic (and C#) developers to their ...
Please check out the new post on my blog, which talks about some of the VB teams plans, content, and highlights at PDC '05 this week. Stay tuned for announcements & updates!--Paul Yuknewiczhttp://blogs.msdn.com/pauly/
(posted by Adam Braden)In case you missed it, there are some sweet new Starterkits available for download. Checkout the info in PaulY's latest post.
As part of the explore program, myself as well as the other VB Explorers have been developing an application to deploy onto the Pocket PC. One of the necessary components of our application is to be able to store information that the user inputs as well as information tat is read off of the hard drive of the Pocket PC. Our group origina...
Since the Whidbey product cycle is winding down, it’s time for “VB War” – the process of reviewing every bug and determining which ones are to be fixed. Each of us Visual Basic Explorers got the chance to experience it firsthand to get some idea of what such meetings are like. Microsoft has implemented “triage” a...
posted by Emily Yaich Hello everyone! I am Emily Yaich and I am another one of the Microsoft Explorers working on the visual basic team. I have been here since the second week in June, and I am loving every minute of it! We haven't gotten into the heavy coding and testing of our app yet, which will be a challenge, but I am su...
Hello World! My name's Seth Capistron and I'm a new Explore Microsoft intern. So far my time in Redmond has been really exciting and I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer. For my first blog, I've decided to write about a recent talk I attended.Yesterday we went to a Microsoft Research Cool Talk on Phlat. Phlat i...