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Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #1. How to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7

February 23, 2011 Feb 23, 2011 02/23/11
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I have experienced a lot of fun writing Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic. Web browser is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to share some sample source code that will help you to create a mini browser application for Windows Phone 7. I will now demonstrate how easy it is to...

Visual Studio is Hiring

February 8, 2011 Feb 8, 2011 02/8/11
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Do you want to work on a product used by millions of developers around the world?  I do!  Come join me to deliver Visual Studio, the set of developer tools used across Microsoft and around the world.  We have open positions available across Test, Dev and PM at varying levels on many projects across Visual Studio Professional.&...

VB Core – New compilation mode in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

January 10, 2011 Jan 10, 2011 01/10/11
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While most servicing releases do not include new functionality, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 introduced an important new compiler feature that enables Visual Basic to target new platforms that were not previously supported.   This was mentioned in some of the initial SP1 blog posts such as Jasonz blog.     This is a ...

Using Entity Framework in Silverlight with Visual Basic

December 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2010 12/31/10
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If you’re looking for ways to get started with Entity Framework 4.0 in Visual Basic then be sure to check out this month’s issue of CODE Magazine.  In it the Entity Framework team has put together a walkthrough that shows how to use EF4 in Silverlight, and best of all the entire article’s in VB!   Using Entity ...

Announcing the Async CTP for Visual Basic (and also Iterators!)

October 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010 10/28/10
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We're very happy to announce today the Async CTP for Visual Basic and C#. Asynchronous programming is something that helps make your UI more responsive, especially in applications that interact with databases or network or disk. It's also used to make ASP servers scale better. And it's the natural way to program in Silverlight. Until now...

Announcing Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools

September 23, 2010 Sep 23, 2010 09/23/10
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Today we announced availability of the Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools.  You can download the release here: This CTP is to be used with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, in order to do Windows Phone 7 development with Visual Basic. We have heard a lot of customer requests for this capability and are all ...