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Chat with Eric Rudder

March 16, 2005 Mar 16, 2005 03/16/05
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Join Eric Rudder, Sr. VP of the Server and Tools Business for a chat this Friday, March 18 at 10 AM Pacific time. Eric will have members of the Whidbey team at his side to tackle your questions. The chat is titled What's New in Whidbey? This is a great opportunity to ask Eric and the other special guests your questions related to Whidbey ...

My First Post – and more on VB6 support (by Rob Copeland)

March 11, 2005 Mar 11, 2005 03/11/05
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Wouldn't you know it. I finally decide to create a blog and work on my first post and then technology gets in the way. We have some issues here creating new blogs on msdn, so I've decided to post here instead. When I get blogs.msdn.com/robertco up and running, I'll post this entry there and use that for any future posts. My first entry is ...

Visual Basic Chats in February

January 31, 2005 Jan 31, 2005 01/31/05
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We're going to have four  Visual Basic chats in February: Programming Essentials in Visual Basic .NETTuesday, February 1, 2005, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. PST (20:00 - 21:00 GMT)Hosts: Robin Reynolds-Haertle, Todd Apley, Harry Kantamneni, Vladimir Sadov, Bill Horst, and Manish JayaswalAdd to Outlook Calendar ADO.NET with Visual Basic .NETTuesday, ...

Data Design Time Changes Beta1 to Beta2

January 12, 2005 Jan 12, 2005 01/12/05
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These are some of the feature changes we’ve made within the Data Design Time features.  When I started writing this document I thought about making it a bulleted list, but then I realized this isn’t a Whidbey Feature list, it’s a delta from Beta1 to Beta 2.  Those interested in the delta probably really want to know...

VB Team in India

November 22, 2004 Nov 22, 2004 11/22/04
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The VB Team is coming to India next week! Alan Griver (http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata) and I will be visiting five cities for the final leg of the 2004 VB World Tour. It will be great to see India and meet up with VB developers over there.We'll be in:Bangalore: 11/30 and 12/1Mumbai: 12/1 and 12/2Chennai: 12/3 through 12/6Hyderabad: 12/7 and 12/...

Versioning Guidelines for Whidbey

November 11, 2004 Nov 11, 2004 11/11/04
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Developers in the Bay area! Next week, John Rivard, a tech lead on the Visual Basic team, will be talking about best practices and gotchas when versioning .NET assemblies. Here's the talk abstract: This presentation addresses the topic of versioning .NET assemblies. By introducing side-by-side assemblies and a side-by-side assembly store, ....

Some beta 2 feature changes

October 29, 2004 Oct 29, 2004 10/29/04
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We’ve heard a lot of great feedback from VB developers about the Whidbey product this year, in many different ways. We visited a bunch of cities on our world wide user group tour (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/worldtour); we’ve read blogs and newsgroups; held chats; and gone to conferences, among other things. And of course ...

Visual Basic Chats in October

October 8, 2004 Oct 8, 2004 10/8/04
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We're going to have two data-related Visual Basic chats on the week of October 11th, 2004. The first chat is devoted to the Windows Forms DataGrid control, where you can get answers to your questions about some of the more subtle point about the control. In the second chat, you can learn about the successor to the DataGrid and many of the ...

Why does the Typed DataSet generate FXCop violations?

September 17, 2004 Sep 17, 2004 09/17/04
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For B1 we generated typed column events and event args.  The Typed Column Events and Event Args have been cut and will be removed in Beta 2.  The scenario will still be enabled as we’ll generate an event handler when needed in the designer.  Please look for info in our team blog on B1 to B2 changes.  I hope to post ...

Custom Controls in the Data Sources Window

August 30, 2004 Aug 30, 2004 08/30/04
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This is a link to the sample that will accompany an upcoming article in CoDe magazine.  http://windowsforms.net/samples/CustomControlSample.zip In this example I demonstrate several types of objects: 1:1, 1:Many and the use of Custom Controls. Thanks,Steve ...