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VB Universal Windows App Part 1: Getting Started

June 15, 2014 Jun 15, 2014 06/15/14
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 App? A "...

The Temple of VB (Matt Gertz)

April 29, 2011 Apr 29, 2011 04/29/11
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 ...

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

June 22, 2010 Jun 22, 2010 06/22/10
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 ...

On The Blink (Matt Gertz)

February 26, 2010 Feb 26, 2010 02/26/10
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 ...

There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Euchre! (Matt Gertz)

December 18, 2009 Dec 18, 2009 12/18/09
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 ...

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

November 7, 2009 Nov 7, 2009 11/7/09
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 ...

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

November 6, 2009 Nov 6, 2009 11/6/09
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&...

I'm A VB: Lluis Franco

October 17, 2009 Oct 17, 2009 10/17/09
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 ...

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

October 17, 2009 Oct 17, 2009 10/17/09
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 ...