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(Posted by Steven Lees)For those of you who are the Seattle area (or can get there this evening), Tyler Whitney from the VB team is going to be at the Seattle .NET Developers Association meeting tonight to talk about how the My feature is architected and how to extend it. It should be a great discussion. More info on the .NET DA website, http://www...
We've started a new blog on the Visual Basic IDE. The address is http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide. Check it out, and let us know what you think!Thanks,Lisa FeigenbaumVisual Basic Program Manager
Paul talks about the go-live of VB 2005 Beta 2 and points to some quick start resources. Check it out!
I’ve been working on getting an article out on leveraging the data design time features, and the new object binding features we’ve added in Whidbey. We’ve been busy getting Beta 2 done, so I haven’t finished it yet, but here’s a rough draft of the full article. TableAdapters and Object BindingIn Whidbey we&...
After installing XP SP2 on the machine that runs my SQL Server, I found I could no longer access my SQL Server database from within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE or from any new applications created with Visual Studio 2005. Prior to installing SP2 the SQL Server was accessible and everything worked fine; now I get timeout errors from the SQL Server an...
Jay discusses the MVP petition on VB6. Add your thoughts. We do want to hear them.
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 and V...
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 below.&nb...
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, Februa...
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 what...