Team Member Interviews

Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1 (Beth Massi)

August 8, 2008 Aug 8, 2008 08/8/08

Beth Massi

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele, a PM on the VS Pro Tools team. In this interview Milind shows us the improvements made to the tooling in Visual Studio SP1 for occasionally connected clients as well as the new data type support for SQL Server 2008. Using SQL 2008 built-in change tracking, you don't need to make ...

Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant (Beth Massi)

July 28, 2008 Jul 28, 2008 07/28/08

Beth Massi

Today I posted an interview screencast on Channel 9. In this interview, Jared Parsons, a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex. The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke signatures and vice versa. Say goodbye to digging through random ...

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 – Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit (Beth Massi)

March 5, 2008 Mar 5, 2008 03/5/08

Beth Massi

Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 2008. He also shows us how to deploy a hybrid application built with VB 6 and VB.NET using XCopy deployment and RegFree-COM. Todd will also be...

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: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

December 19, 2007 Dec 19, 2007 12/19/07

Beth Massi

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman, Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB. I actually ...

Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)

December 17, 2007 Dec 17, 2007 12/17/07

Beth Massi

Scott Hanselman posted a podcast with with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Check it out!Enjoy,-Beth Massi, VS Community...

Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained (Beth Massi)

December 14, 2007 Dec 14, 2007 12/14/07

Beth Massi

I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals. This is a good interview to pay attention to if you are struggling with ...

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 ...

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