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Channel 9 Interview: Look Who's Working on Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

July 23, 2008 Jul 23, 2008 07/23/08
Beth Massi
Last month when I was in Redmond I was pulled into a photo with some of the people working on Visual Basic. Do you notice something quirky about these pictures (besides me)? Yes, they are all wearing grey shirts! There's apparently a running joke going on with how Jonathan Aneja (top row, 4th from the left in the first picture) only wears grey...

Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense (Beth Massi)

January 17, 2008 Jan 17, 2008 01/17/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard. He also shows the differences between how IntelliSense works with axis properties on XDocument and XElement ...

Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
Beth Massi
I released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum, PM on the VB Team where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all the new refactorings that were added for the latest version of Visual Basic 2008. You can download ...

Don Box on Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

November 13, 2007 Nov 13, 2007 11/13/07
Beth Massi
It looks like Don Box is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it's unique XML support, LINQ query syntax, and lambdas. He even mentions in a post about authentication with REST that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Basic 9. There's so many interesting things you can do with VB9 and XML. If you want to get ...