PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin. Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented. If you didn’t make it to the presentations, check out the below. Lots of interesting material!
Was good to visit everyone on the trip. Paul and I had a great time visiting everyone.
Start Clients Using Office:
Main page -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/default.aspx
Good overview -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/officewhatsnewinvsto2005.asp
My.Blogs Location -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/odc_vstoOutlookMyBlog.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/Downloads/Code/MyBlogs/
Smart Clients Using Mobile Devices:
Main page -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/learning/mobile/
Tips/Tricks
Community
VB Forums -> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=10&SiteID=1
Submit bugs/suggestions -> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx
Main VB web site -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/
VB6 Migration site -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/
IDE
Refactor for VB -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/refactor/
Snippit editor -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/snippeteditor/
IDE Customization -> Go under Tools/Import-Export Settings
XML Comments à Shows you how to customize this! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=321766&SiteID=1
Find all References à http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxtsksearchingobjectss.asp
AutoCorrect -> Should be obvious from using it
Incremental Search -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcepbguide5/html/wce50tskFindingaStringUsingIncrementalSearch.asp
Debugger
Immediate Window -> http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2005/12/05/500252.aspx
Edit & Continue -> Modify your code while in break model
Debugging Attributes -> Really good article on things you can do: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/VisualStudio2005Debugging/
Debugging Visualizers -> Example of creating them in VB http://blogs.msdn.com/deeptanshuv/archive/2005/03/21/400194.aspx
Command Window -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxurfcommandmodecommandwindow.asp
TracePoints -> Right-click on line of code and choose insert tracepoint
Language Improvements
My Extensibility -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/My/
Generics -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vb2005_generics.asp
Using Statement -> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/htd05whh.aspx
Continue / Isnot -> Simple, but new for VB 2005
Warnings -> You can customize these from Compile project designer page
Winforms Improvements
These features are not new to this version, but are new to VB6 users. They are easily found in help
Anchoring/Docking
Tab order/Menu Editor
Inherited Forms
Forms Localization
New features:
Background Worker object
Bind to settings
Document outline window
New Containers
Table/Flow layout
Splitter
This article has links to all these features and much more http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/35f2fe4h.aspx
Application Model
Good general link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tzdks800.aspx
VB6 Interop
Great series of articles on using .net components from VB6 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vbfusion/
Feel free to contact me (toddap@microsoft.com) if you have any questions about code samples or information that was given in the talks. Thanks again for attending!
Todd Apley
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