Visual Basic Blog

A group blog from members of the VB team

Are you using Expression Encoder 2 with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 11, 2008 Sep 11, 2008 09/11/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Now you can! Expression Encoder just released an update last month allowing VB developers to use the Expression Encoder 2 SDK. Here's the announcement:http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2008/07/26/8773569.aspxExpression Encoder is a tool for video encoding, and is a member of the Expression product suite. It allows you to ...

Channel9 Interview: Meet the VS "Development Experience" Team (Beth Massi)

September 8, 2008 Sep 8, 2008 09/8/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted another Channel9 interview. This time I met with the team that brings us the "experience" of coding in Visual Studio, also sometimes referred to as the VS IDE Team. I ask them how their design process works, what the top requested features are for the code editors, how they work with the language teams as well as what their ...

Are you using the ASP.Net MVC Framework with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 8, 2008 Sep 8, 2008 09/8/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
If so here's a great tutorial video for you to check out, by VB MVP Bill Burrows:http://www.myvbprof.com/2007_version/MVC_P4_Tutorial.aspxHere's a description of the tutorial: "This tutorial covers an overview to the MVC pattern using MVC Preview 4 and Visual Basic. It highlights the changes in the MVC model since the release of Preview 1 and ...

Visual Basic and CSharp IDEs Uncensored (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 6, 2008 Sep 6, 2008 09/6/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Interested in hearing about what the Visual Basic and CSharp program managers *really* think about the two IDEs? Come join Karen Liu and me as we chat about the goals, similarities and differences of the VB & C# IDEs. We also discuss our favorite features and where we think IDEs are going in the future. This talk was recorded at TechEd ...

Visual Basic Developer Center Revamped! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 5, 2008 Sep 5, 2008 09/5/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Have you refreshed your VB Dev Center page today? If you did, you'll notice a new look on both the Home page and the Learn tab. Also check out the new Forums and Community pages. For more info on the specific changes, please see these blog posts by Beth Massi and John Martin, who were involved in the redesign. Have you set the Visual...

Visual Basic at TechEd SouthEast Asia (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 3, 2008 Sep 3, 2008 09/3/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea Here are some direct links to the materials: TLA 314 - Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks TLA 323 - Best Practices for the VB9.0 and ...

Visual Basic at TechEd South Africa 2008 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I've created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session abstracts, powerpoints, and solutions. That resource page is available here: ...

Around the World with Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 1, 2008 Sep 1, 2008 09/1/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I just finished a month-long 'round the world trip, where I was speaking about Visual Basic and meeting with local Microsoft representatives. I started off in Durban in early August, where I spoke at TechEd South Africa 2008. (More info on my talks and presentation materials to follow in my next post.) Then I continued on to TechEd SouthEast ...