Dev Blogs
Creating my first database was a very interesting experience because I really didn't know where to begin. In a past internship I used Visual Studio for some web applications and managing data, but never had to actually create my own database. This summer as an MS Explorer I added an extension to a BlackJack Starter Kit...
There's a new article up on MSDN by Joe Binder about customizing the My feature in VB 2005. It covers customizing existing features like My.User and My.Computer.Network. You can also learn how to extend the My namespace and add your own members.Check it out here.(Posted by Steven Lees)
For those that have been following our team blog under the VB Team blog, we've moved to our new home @ http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/default.aspx. Why did we move? There were many of us that weren't that into blogging way back when. One of our previous team members, Robert Green, set up a team blog that we could easily add...
(by Adam Braden)Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper. Check out his posts regarding a description of the bootstrapper, what is a homesite, how the bootstrapper resource strings are being sim-shipped allowing you to tar...
(posted by Adam Braden)In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution - Refactor!http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/06/03/424915.aspxIf you haven't seen it yet, it is a must to download.Enjoy,Adam BradenVisual ...
A number of posts have asked how to extend TableAdapters to support additional functionality. It may be related to supporting transactions across multiple updates, or how do I set the UserId as a parameter on an update statement that isn’t represented in the DataTable?For Transactions, we don’t expose a Transaction Property by def...
(Posted by Steven Lees)One of the coolest things about code snippets is that in addition to the 400 or so that we include in the VB install, you can also make your own. We just posted a beta 2 update to the Snippet Editor--check it out on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/snippeteditor/. Thanks to Sean Draine and Sarika Calla fr...
If you’ve downloaded VB Express Beta2 and tried using online help, you’ll notice that your F1 help doesn’t quite seem right. It turns out there is a problem with help sending its request in the wrong order so the least relevant topic shows up in your help window. Folks on our team are aware of the issue and they are wo...
(Posted by Steven Lees)For those of you who are the Seattle area (or can get there this evening), Tyler Whitney from the VB team is going to be at the Seattle .NET Developers Association meeting tonight to talk about how the My feature is architected and how to extend it. It should be a great discussion. More info on the .NET DA website, http://www...
We've started a new blog on the Visual Basic IDE. The address is http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide. Check it out, and let us know what you think!Thanks,Lisa FeigenbaumVisual Basic Program Manager