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For the Visual Basic web developers, be sure to check out MIX this year! The conference will be taking place March 18-20, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/eventsThe list of sessions is posted here. Included in the agenda will be the following Visual Basic session.Making XML Really, Really Easy with ...

Check out the latest video in the 10-4 Channel 9 series, on Visual Basic 10: Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 In this ninth episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to Multiline Lambdas, ...

We've just had a fascinating article about using VB's XML literals to produce web pages.I've been interested in the other side of the process: using VB's XML support to scrape web-pages for data. Here's the essential bit of code, which looks for something like <div class="content"><h2>Title</h2> <table><tr>&l...

Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here. The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the editing of that data by users in the controls. Check out all the WPF Forms over Data videos here....

On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy new year. We truly enjoy getting to know you through your comments and emails, so here's an opportunity to say "thanks"!          As we move forward to 2009, I thought it would be interest...

MSDN Magazine Editor in Chief, Howard Dierking, announced a number of changes to the magazine in the January 2009 Editor's Note. Among that list of changes was the following excerpt: "Furthermore, we recently began moving all of our article code samples to MSDN Code Gallery. This will allow our team to be much more agile in managing and updating co...

It's common that you want to launch an external process but supply input and capture the output. Here's one attempt:  ' BAD CODE Using p As New System.Diagnostics.Process     p.StartInfo.FileName = "cat"     p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False     p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = ...

It's a new week, and the 10-4 video podcast series continues! The topics for this week include an overview of VS 2010, and a special focus on the Start Page. Here's a description of the episode, from the creators:10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual Studio 201...

The first episode of the 10-4 podcast series is about downloading the VS 2010 CTP. We had blogged the instructions before, but this video will take you through the process. Download now, and start trying out all the new features! :)Episode 1: Downloading and Using the Visual Studio 2010 September CTPFor this first episode of 10-4, we’ll look ...

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team has announced 10-4, a new video podcast. 10-4 will feature different capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week! To get the episodes, visit the show's new home on Channel9:  https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/ There you will also have the option to subscribe ...