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What's the list of new language features in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
This post is in response to a question we received in the blog comments last week. It's often difficult to study future versions of VB and C#, and figure out what's the same and what's different! Therefore, I've put together a chart that shows both the VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 feature lists together. (VB 10.0 and C# 4.0 are the language versions that will be included in the Visual Studio 2010 release.) One thing you may notice is that the lists look very much the same! That is part of our efforts to ensure that whichever language you are using, you will have the same functionality available to tackle your development t...
Are you a VB developer and interested in Silverlight? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
If so, vote here to see more Silverlight samples in VB:http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=1222
Join the Visual Basic team on Facebook! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Do you spend a lot of time on Facebook? Facebook is now one more way that you can connect with the Visual Basic team, and other fellow Visual Basic friends. Log on and join today! Friends of the Microsoft Visual Basic Team Facebook Group
Make sure you apply this fix before your VS2010 CTP VPC expires! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Have you downloaded and started using the Visual Studio 2010 Community Technology Preview ("CTP")? If so, you may have noticed that the Virtual PC it runs on, will expire at the end of the year. See the following blog posts from Brian Keller and Jeff Beehler, on how to turn off the synchronization between the Virtual PC and the host OS, and fix this problem!Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC: Dealing with Activation MessagesDealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration
Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Quick Search has to be one of my favorite features in the 2010 CTP. I find myself using it all the time! I hope you will find it useful in your development too. The Quick Search functionality has become a pretty common feature in development environments today. That's because it since it handles such a common scenario - needing to find something in your code! Read on to learn more about this exciting addition in VS 2010. This blog post is part of a series on the walkthroughs included in the October VS2010 CTP. Each walkthrough guides you through a series of steps, to help you experience the new features coming u...
Visual Studio: Snow Edition
There was lots of snow today. The Microsoft campus was almost empty as everyone worked from home. This picture shows what it's like to develop Visual Studio in the snow... Wallpaper sized: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1600x1200.jpg (378k)Widescreen: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1920x1200.jpg (445k)
Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables (Beth Massi)
We we released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain, called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables. In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods as well as LINQ to DataSets. He compares the performance on indexed and non indexed DataTables in a variety of scenarios. See for yourself what Jeff recommends on large sets of data.Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
Walkthrough: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
This blog post is part of a series on the walkthroughs included in the October VS2010 CTP. Each walkthrough guides you through a series of steps, to help you experience the new features coming up in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Even if you choose not to download the CTP, you may find that you are still able to give feedback based on the descriptions and illustrations below. Please leave your feedback on this feature set at the end of this post, or at the following forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vs2010ctpvbcs/thread/afb90240-1bc1-4191-b48f-d5e3a218b520 Thanks! Lisa Walkthr...
Walkthrough: Office Programmability in Visual Basic and C# in VS 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
This is another walkthrough, demonstrating how to use some new Visual Studio 2010 features available in the October VS2010 CTP. It provides steps to follow in the CTP build; however, you may find that you are able to give feedback on the descriptions below without actually downloading and executing the steps yourself. Please leave your feedback on this feature set at the end of this post, or at the following forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vs2010ctpvbcs/thread/6172efc9-3075-4426-a773-cf2504f51dca Thanks! Lisa Walkthrough: Office Programmability in Visual Basic and C# This walkthrough demonstr...