Visual Basic Blog

A group blog from members of the VB team

How Do We Learn to Be Good Programmers? (Matt Gertz)

May 5, 2009 May 5, 2009 05/5/09
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I’ve always enjoyed writing.  Putting pen to paper (or, these days, fingers to keyboard) is something that brings a lot of joy into my life, even more than music or any other hobby that I have.  I’ve been writing stories since earlier than I can remember, have faithfully kept a daily diary for many years, and have ...

Ask Kathleen: Working with MEF (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 5, 2009 May 5, 2009 05/5/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
MEF stands for Managed Extensibility Framework. MEF is a new .NET library that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can be dynamically composed. Kathleen has a great article on MEF in last month's edition of Visual Studio Magazine. She explains what it is, how to use it, and outlines the ...

CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 4, 2009 May 4, 2009 05/4/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor!. The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other editing functionality, making it a much richer tool for all-around IDE productivity. Consume-...

CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

May 3, 2009 May 3, 2009 05/3/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a...

XML Literals, WCF and LINQ Article by Steele Price (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 2, 2009 May 2, 2009 05/2/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Steele wrote a great article in last month's issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for VB 2008.VSM's "On VB" Column: XML Literals, WCF and LINQ by Steele Price...

TechEd North America, here we come! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 30, 2009 Apr 30, 2009 04/30/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
TechEd North America 2009 is right around the corner. For those of you attending, we look forward to spending time with you at the VB.NET sessions and Technical Learning Center (a.k.a. booth). I've pasted the VB.NET session list below. See you in LA!(image...

Luca Bolognese on Asynchronous HTML caching in VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 29, 2009 Apr 29, 2009 04/29/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
You may know Luca Bolognese from his well-known work on C# LINQ. Luca is now the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. You can check out his blog here. Luca recently blogged his first VB.NET post. It is about asynchronous HTML caching, and is part of a longer series in which he is converting a financial VBA Excel add-in to .NET. The ...