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Want to see the VB 2005 IDE in action? Check out this video!

November 8, 2005 Nov 8, 2005 11/8/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
Here's a great Channel 9 video with Program Manager Jay Schmelzer, that demonstrates a number of the VB 2005 IDE features mentioned below.  In his 40 min interview with Ken Levy, Jay talks about what it's like to work on the VB team, shows how to use the IDE to make you most productive, and exposes a few cool tricks that most ...

Visual Studio 2005 IDE: Top Ten Feature List (by LisaFeig)

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
For our first VB IDE post on the VB team blog, I’d like to give you my list of the top 10 new features in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.  Now that the product has been released, you can take advantage of these today!1. Edit and ContinueYou are again able to make changes to your code while debugging, back up the code instruction pointer...

The VB IDE team joins the VB Team blog (by LisaFeig)

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
  Hi.  My name is Lisa Feigenbaum and I am a program manager on the VB IDE.  The VB IDE feature team (including testers, developers, and program managers) has been hosting a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide.  However, we have decided to merge our efforts with the rest of the VB team and transfer our blog here instead.&...

Visual Basic 2005 is now available!

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
VBTeam
 Today is the official launch day of the new version of Visual Basic:  This page links to the relevant information (how to get it, what's new, etc…)http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/You can also download the FREE Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition from here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/ Happy coding, Luca ...

VB Snippet Editor RTM RC Release – Lorenzo Minore

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
VBTeam
We just released the VB Snippet Editor RTM RC!This release includes lots of new great features:- Code Snippet treeview; lets you browse through your registered snippet directories - 'Save as .vsi' option; lets you save your snippet as a .vsi package - Code colorizers; the language keywords are colorized like inside the VB editor - ...

Code Snippets on Channel9 – Ken Levy and Lisa Feigenbaum

October 19, 2005 Oct 19, 2005 10/19/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
We’ve posted a new video on Channel9 about Code Snippets in VS2005.  Click here to check out the 38min show. Here are some of the exciting topics that you can look forward to hearing about:  ·      What code snippets are and why they were created in VB 2005.·      ...

Channel 9 Videos

September 20, 2005 Sep 20, 2005 09/20/05
VBTeam
Some videos on VB futures have been posted on Channel9 at: ·         Paul Vick and Amanda Silver - VB Language Futures: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=116700 ·         Paul Vick and Erik Meijer - Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic ...

Downloading the VB 9.0 preview bits…

September 15, 2005 Sep 15, 2005 09/15/05
VBTeam
We've gotten asked a few times what the VB 9.0 preview bits available here work on. It works on the RC candidate that's available on the PDC CD & for download on MSDN. Enjoy! - Amanda    ...

Glory, Hope, and Fame at the PDC

September 15, 2005 Sep 15, 2005 09/15/05
VBTeam
Waiting for my ridiculously priced latte this morning (I am a Seattleite, after all) made me miss the intro to Eric’s keynote session. As I was walking toward exhibit Hall A, I noticed people conspicuously looking at me. I thought it was because I had a big LINQ button around my neck-- with everyone so excited about the technology they ...

Visual Basic — NEXT (by Amanda Silver)

September 13, 2005 Sep 13, 2005 09/13/05
VBTeam
The first preview of the next version of Visual Basic goes live this morning! I’m sitting in Bill and Jim’s keynote right now, waiting for our announcement to be made public. The release is part of the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework, code-named “project LINQ”, which allows Visual Basic (and C#) developers to ...