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This post is in response to a question we received in the blog comments last week. It's often difficult to study future versions of VB and C#, and figure out what's the same and what's different! Therefore, I've put together a chart that shows both the VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 feature lists together. (VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 are the language versions that wil...

If so, vote here to see more Silverlight samples in VB:http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=1222

Do you spend a lot of time on Facebook? Facebook is now one more way that you can connect with the Visual Basic team, and other fellow Visual Basic friends. Log on and join today! Friends of the Microsoft Visual Basic Team Facebook Group

Have you downloaded and started using the Visual Studio 2010 Community Technology Preview ("CTP")? If so, you may have noticed that the Virtual PC it runs on, will expire at the end of the year. See the following blog posts from Brian Keller and Jeff Beehler, on how to turn off the synchronization between the Virtual PC and the host OS, and fix thi...

Quick Search has to be one of my favorite features in the 2010 CTP. I find myself using it all the time! I hope you will find it useful in your development too. The Quick Search functionality has become a pretty common feature in development environments today. That's because it since it handles such a common scenario - needing to find something in...

There was lots of snow today. The Microsoft campus was almost empty as everyone worked from home. This picture shows what it's like to develop Visual Studio in the snow... Wallpaper sized: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1600x1200.jpg (378k)Widescreen: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1920x1200.jpg (445k)

We we released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain, called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables. In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods as well as LINQ to DataSets. He compares the performance on indexed and non indexed DataTable...

This blog post is part of a series on the walkthroughs included in the October VS2010 CTP. Each walkthrough guides you through a series of steps, to help you experience the new features coming up in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Even if you choose not to download the CTP, you may find that you are still able to give feedback based on t...

This is another walkthrough, demonstrating how to use some new Visual Studio 2010 features available in the October VS2010 CTP. It provides steps to follow in the CTP build; however, you may find that you are able to give feedback on the descriptions below without actually downloading and executing the steps yourself. Please leave your feedback on ...

As part of the October VS 2010 CTP, we also shipped a set of walkthrough documents explaining how to use the product to experience the new features. The CTP was released as a Virtual PC image, and can be a pretty hefty download to undertake. So for those of you just interested to know what's there, reading the walkthroughs can be a good alternative...