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Notes from a recent tour to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Phillipines (well, almost!)

October 17, 2006 Oct 17, 2006 10/17/06
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All, I recently went on a trip to 3 Asian countries, and thought I would share the notes.Here’s my summary of the recent trip a colleague and I made to Asia. The trip was cut short due to a typhoon in Manila, which was a real shame: my colleague and I were very much looking forward to seeing the Philippines. However, the trip ...

Check out "Live from Redmond series #3" from the .NET FX product teams

October 10, 2006 Oct 10, 2006 10/10/06
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The .NET Framework teams are providing several Live Meeting presentations spanning application technologies like Smart Clients, Web 2.0 (AJAX) and Mobile.  Check out SimonMu's blog for more information:http://blogs.msdn.com/simonmu/archive/2006/10/09/The-next-series-of-team-member-Live-From-Redmond-webcasts.aspxSimon also pointed me to a ...

VB Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET

October 4, 2006 Oct 4, 2006 10/4/06
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by Kathleen McGrath If you're a Visual Basic developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET, you should check out this new MSDN article:  A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0There's also a number of introductory webcasts and multimedia presentations at Learn ASP.NET ...

Video Screencast: Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0

September 23, 2006 Sep 23, 2006 09/23/06
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by Kathleen McGrathI've created a screencast that shows you how to create a Windows form in Visual Basic 2005 that you can call from your Visual Basic 6 application using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. The screencast is about 6 minutes long.Interop Forms Toolkit Screencast...

Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack!

September 20, 2006 Sep 20, 2006 09/20/06
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I’m excited to announce that the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack has been released and is now available for download on MSDN!  In this release we have two components:  Both components are fully supported, and we’ve included the source code for the Interop Toolkit as well.  For more information check out http...

Create Add-ins for Office 2007 with Visual Basic

September 14, 2006 Sep 14, 2006 09/14/06
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By Kathleen McGrathThe beta release of Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 SE) was announced today. VSTO 2005 SE is a free add-on for Visual Studio (Professional or above) that enables you to create add-ins for the most popular Office 2007 and Office 2003 applications. You can get VSTO 2005 SE Beta here...

Whats New In VB2005 – Some parts of the TechEd demos

July 3, 2006 Jul 3, 2006 07/3/06
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So I cleaned up my teched demos and editted the notes so hopefully, someone other than me (without access to what's inside my head ;-)) can follow along and see some of the cool new things in VB2005. Simply unzip the solution, open it, and remember to START with the demo.vb file in the DemoProject solution! If there's a project you're ...

Generics Patterns and Practices: ideas and suggestions for when to use generics

June 27, 2006 Jun 27, 2006 06/27/06
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So at TechEd-2006, I gave a chalktalk on generics patterns and practices. I've zipped the content up here so folks can check it out if they want. I start by giving a quick background on generics (the GenericsBasics solution attached), then looking for patterns in the framework of where generics might be applied (The Examples project in the ...

VB6 Collections: The Missing LINQ

June 19, 2006 Jun 19, 2006 06/19/06
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By Jonathan Aneja   Hi, my name’s Jonathan and I’m a Program Manager on the VB team, working mainly on LINQ features.  One of the things I love about LINQ is it’s not just limited to querying over databases and XML – you can query over any collection of Objects.  For example, let’s say I have a collection of ...

EMEA Tour Followup

April 20, 2006 Apr 20, 2006 04/20/06
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PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin.  Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented.   If you didn't make it to the presentations, check out the below.   Lots of interesting ...