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Paul talks about the go-live of VB 2005 Beta 2 and points to some quick start resources. Check it out!
I’ve been working on getting an article out on leveraging the data design time features, and the new object binding features we’ve added in Whidbey. We’ve been busy getting Beta 2 done, so I haven’t finished it yet, but here’s a rough draft of the full article. TableAdapters and Object BindingIn Whidbey we&...
After installing XP SP2 on the machine that runs my SQL Server, I found I could no longer access my SQL Server database from within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE or from any new applications created with Visual Studio 2005. Prior to installing SP2 the SQL Server was accessible and everything worked fine; now I get timeout errors from the SQL Server an...
Jay discusses the MVP petition on VB6. Add your thoughts. We do want to hear them.
Join Eric Rudder, Sr. VP of the Server and Tools Business for a chat this Friday, March 18 at 10 AM Pacific time. Eric will have members of the Whidbey team at his side to tackle your questions. The chat is titled What's New in Whidbey? This is a great opportunity to ask Eric and the other special guests your questions related to Whidbey and V...
Wouldn't you know it. I finally decide to create a blog and work on my first post and then technology gets in the way. We have some issues here creating new blogs on msdn, so I've decided to post here instead. When I get blogs.msdn.com/robertco up and running, I'll post this entry there and use that for any future posts. My first entry is below.&nb...
We're going to have four Visual Basic chats in February: Programming Essentials in Visual Basic .NETTuesday, February 1, 2005, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. PST (20:00 - 21:00 GMT)Hosts: Robin Reynolds-Haertle, Todd Apley, Harry Kantamneni, Vladimir Sadov, Bill Horst, and Manish JayaswalAdd to Outlook Calendar ADO.NET with Visual Basic .NETTuesday, Februa...
These are some of the feature changes we’ve made within the Data Design Time features. When I started writing this document I thought about making it a bulleted list, but then I realized this isn’t a Whidbey Feature list, it’s a delta from Beta1 to Beta 2. Those interested in the delta probably really want to know what...
The VB Team is coming to India next week! Alan Griver (http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata) and I will be visiting five cities for the final leg of the 2004 VB World Tour. It will be great to see India and meet up with VB developers over there.We'll be in:Bangalore: 11/30 and 12/1Mumbai: 12/1 and 12/2Chennai: 12/3 through 12/6Hyderabad: 12/7 and 12/8Delhi...
Developers in the Bay area! Next week, John Rivard, a tech lead on the Visual Basic team, will be talking about best practices and gotchas when versioning .NET assemblies. Here's the talk abstract: This presentation addresses the topic of versioning .NET assemblies. By introducing side-by-side assemblies and a side-by-side assembly store, .NET com...