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Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)

November 8, 2007 Nov 8, 2007 11/8/07
Beth Massi
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst, a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He shows us how the new Option Infer works and how various types are inferred by the compiler without having to explicitly declare ...

Channel 9 Interview: Matt Gertz Plays Cards with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

October 23, 2007 Oct 23, 2007 10/23/07
Beth Massi
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Matt Gertz, Development Manager on the Visual Basic team (well former Dev Manager, I'll let him explain <g>) where he shows off a Euchre game he's developed in Visual Basic that includes speech and sound. Matt is one of our best bloggers on the VB Team and he loves game programming as ...

Channel 9 Interview – LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer in VS 2008 (Beth Massi)

August 27, 2007 Aug 27, 2007 08/27/07
Beth Massi
I just posted another great interview on Channel 9 with Young Joo talking about LINQ to SQL and the new O/R Designer in Visual Studio 2008. He demos a typical business client-server scenario and shows how LINQ to SQL classes make it much easier to work with relational data in SQL Server 2005. Young also talks about architectures ...

Channel 9 Interview – Amanda Silver on LINQ (Beth Massi)

August 17, 2007 Aug 17, 2007 08/17/07
Beth Massi
I just posted an interview with Amanda on Channel 9 where she walks us through the new LINQ syntax available in VS 2008 Beta 2. I also posted some How Do I videos on LINQ to help get you started -- look for more of these beginning of next week!In this interview, Amanda Silver, a Lead Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, ...

Kit George and Chris Smith on Channel9 (Beth Massi)

July 29, 2007 Jul 29, 2007 07/29/07
Beth Massi
I posted a couple more videos on Channel9 that you'll definitely want to check out! Thanks again to Kathleen for helping with the production.The first one Kit George walks us through some of his favorite VB9 language features that enable LINQ:In this in interview Kit George, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team and a former ...

Visual Basic on Channel9 (Beth Massi)

July 21, 2007 Jul 21, 2007 07/21/07
Beth Massi
I just posted a couple screen casts/interviews on Channel9 you should definitely check out. I rounded up VB team members and influentials and asked them what their favorite Visual Studio 2008 features were and to give us all a demo of them! The first one is with Erik Meijer and he shows us his favorite feature, XML Literals:In this in ...