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Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 1: Getting Started

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

This is Part 1 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series:   Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I'd take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here's how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores:   What is a Universal Windows ...

Apr 29, 2011
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The Temple of VB (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

Hi, all!It's been a while since I've posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then.  Though I've been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off last summer to do some traveling and, more importantly, some long overdue writing.  Although I'd always enjoyed writing the "here's how you bu...

Jun 22, 2010
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Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

I’m back with Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB compiler team, shows us the ins and outs of how multi-targeting works in Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2010 in this Channel 9 interview: Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010What's tricky in Visual Studio 2010 is that there are now two supported versions ...

May 3, 2010
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Channel 9 Interview: Array and Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 2010 (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

I’ve written about collection initializers on my blog before, but I thought I’d catch up with the VB Team to tell me more about how they really work.In this interview Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB Compiler team, shows us a couple of new language features: Array and Collection Initializers. He gives us insight into how they are imple...

Feb 26, 2010
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On The Blink (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

One of the really fun things about being associated with the Visual Basic team is getting to see all of the varied usages to which our customers put it.  From enterprise software to games, our customer base covers a wide range.  The most fun to see, however, are the hobby applications, because the writers of that code come up with some pr...

Dec 18, 2009
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There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Euchre! (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

“Oh, no!”  I hear you cry, “not another blog about Euchre!”Well, I do like the game, to be sure.  But, more importantly, the Euchre scenario enables me to try out any new technologies on a reasonably complex problem (using Visual Basic, of course).  It’s my way of checking out our product to make sure th...

Nov 7, 2009
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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 2 (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

In this post, I’ll continue on with coding the new playlist shuffler.  If you haven’t read part 1 yet, I highly recommend it so that this post will make more sense. JCode for the controls (continued)The Title TextBoxWhen the title changes, we’ll want to indicate that the playlist has changed, and we’ll want to cache the...

Nov 6, 2009
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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 1 (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

Way back in October 2007, I wrote up a few posts (here and here) on my experiments with the Windows Media Player object model.  The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to “shuffle,” WMP would break up songs that should always play together (for example, Jackson Browne’s “The Load-Out”...

Oct 17, 2009
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I'm A VB: Lluis Franco

VBTeam
VBTeam

  Website: http://geeks.ms/blogs/lfranco  ·        How long have you been using VB?Visual Basic? Since VB 3.0, but I have been using other Basic in the 80's ;-) ·        What industry do you work in?Currently I work in a Financial compa...

Oct 17, 2009
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I'm A VB: Jorge Serrano, Visual Basic MVP

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VBTeam

  Website: http://geeks.ms/blogs/jorge/  ·        How long have you been using VB?In the University had the opportunity of use VB 1 (one floppy disk of 3 1/2 1.44 Mb). It was a little bit odd in a first moment, but a few time later I used VB 3 (7 or 8 floppy disks, I don't remember now h...