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Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

February 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012 02/28/12
VBTeam
As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download.  This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a first-class asynchronous programming experience, and also the long-awaited Iterators ...

VB Support for Microsoft Surface 2.0

November 21, 2011 Nov 21, 2011 11/21/11
VBTeam
Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough.     For those who desire bigger touch screens, Microsoft surface may be the answer.     Microsoft surface has been around a while and there have been significant changes ...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

November 18, 2011 Nov 18, 2011 11/18/11
VBTeam
Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP. I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try. To recap – in the Roslyn CTP, we are previewing a powerful set of language services APIs that you can use within your apps to reason about VB and C# ...

Halloween: VB Style!

October 31, 2011 Oct 31, 2011 10/31/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Imagine this. It’s Halloween. You’ve got a costume party to go to at 7 but there’s one small hiccup – you’ve got no costume. As a VB programmer you’re used to coming up with nick-of-time solutions to all manner of complex business problems but all your coding skills won’t help you now. After all, you ...

Introducing the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
(Begin dramatic movie trailer music, slow PowerPoint slide show with cliché sound effects) OK, maybe I have a flair for the dramatic but that’s because today is such a dramatically exciting day. After years of foreshadowing, and mentioning, and updating on our part I’m thrilled to announce on behalf of the united ...

Announcement: Namespace Global

September 27, 2011 Sep 27, 2011 09/27/11
VBTeam
There’s a new feature coming to VB, and already included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. The feature is called Namespace Global and it’ll make your life easier… The MSDN reference on namespaces (including Namespace Global) is here: Namespaces in Visual Basic. As an aside, I’d like to thank Shimmy ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Visual Basic (VB) Call Hierarchy

September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11
VBTeam
By Zain Naboulsi (Blog)   Default: CTRL + ALT + K Menu: View | Call Hierarchy Command: View.CallHierarchy; EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ViewCallHierarchy Versions: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Languages: VB With the announcement of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview it’s time to take a look at some of the features you can...

Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit – Updated with VB Source

September 8, 2011 Sep 8, 2011 09/8/11
VBTeam
An update to the training kit has been made providing Visual Basic developers with sample code for the development features of Dynamics CRM and help them build applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online.Download available athttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23416  ...