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Tune in for VB @ PDC '05 this week (by PaulYuk)

September 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005 09/12/05

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Please check out the new post on my blog, which talks about some of the VB teams plans, content, and highlights at PDC '05 this week.  Stay tuned for announcements & updates!--Paul Yuknewiczhttp://blogs.msdn.com/pauly...

New VB StarterKits for download!

July 28, 2005 Jul 28, 2005 07/28/05

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(posted by Adam Braden)In case you missed it, there are some sweet new Starterkits available for download.  Checkout the info in PaulY's latest post...

Working with DataSets by Greg Osefo

July 25, 2005 Jul 25, 2005 07/25/05

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As part of the explore program, myself as well as the other VB Explorers have been developing an application to deploy onto the Pocket PC.  One of the necessary components of our application is to be able to store information that the user inputs as well as information tat is read off of the hard drive of the Pocket PC.  Our group ...

Battling Bugs: A Glimpse of “VB War” by Irene Fan

July 22, 2005 Jul 22, 2005 07/22/05

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Since the Whidbey product cycle is winding down, it’s time for “VB War” – the process of reviewing every bug and determining which ones are to be fixed. Each of us Visual Basic Explorers got the chance to experience it firsthand to get some idea of what such meetings are like. Microsoft has implemented “triage&...

Phlat! by Seth Capistron

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

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Hello World!  My name's Seth Capistron and I'm a new Explore Microsoft intern.  So far my time in Redmond has been really exciting and I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer.  For my first blog, I've decided to write about a recent talk I attended.Yesterday we went to a Microsoft Research Cool Talk on Phlat.  ...

My First Database by Greg Osefo

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

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   Creating my first database was a very interesting experience because I really didn't know where to begin.  In a past internship I used Visual Studio for some web applications and managing data, but never had to actually create my own database.  This summer as an MS Explorer I added an extension to a BlackJack ...

New article on customizing My

June 25, 2005 Jun 25, 2005 06/25/05

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There's a new article up on MSDN by Joe Binder about customizing the My feature in VB 2005. It covers customizing existing features like My.User and My.Computer.Network. You can also learn how to extend the My namespace and add your own members.Check it out here.(Posted by Steven Lees...

A new home for the data team (aka Steve Lasker)

June 13, 2005 Jun 13, 2005 06/13/05

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For those that have been following our team blog under the VB Team blog, we've moved to our new home @ http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/default.aspx.  Why did we move?  There were many of us that weren't that into blogging way back when.  One of our previous team members, Robert Green, set up a team blog that we could ...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper?

June 8, 2005 Jun 8, 2005 06/8/05

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(by Adam Braden)Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regarding a description of the bootstrapper, what is a homesite, how the bootstrapper resource strings are being sim-shipped allowing you ...