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TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Software Engineer) gave an awesome presentation on the Future of VB. The presentation included VB 2010 and beyond. Title: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual BasicAbstract: Hear language architect Paul Vick and specification lead Lucian Wischik discuss the future direction of the Visual Basic language. Learn about the new capabilities of the next...
VB 2010 Unveiled at PDC 2008! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Last week at the Professional Developers Conference, we made a number of very exciting announcements regarding the future of Visual Basic. Here is the list of VB 2010 features we've announced: So many exciting features to look forward to! Stay tuned for more blog posts and videos which illustrate these features in more detail.
Shell Games (Matt Gertz)
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship. I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have to ship without delay, and that any major failure in the deliverable could create some seriously undesirable problems for both us and our customers. In the interest of expediting the development of the product, a external team knowledgeable in the underlying issue had been hired to do the actual work. When our testers were analyzing the res...
Community Interview with Adrian 'Spotty' Bowles (Beth Massi)
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Adrian Bowles (who's nickname is Spotty), a Tester on the VB Compiler. Someday Spotty will have to tell us how he got his nickname.Please check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well.Here's the interview with Spotty:1. Nice to meet you Spotty! Let’s begin by asking a simple question: Where are you from?England via Philadelphia (9 years prior to moving to...
Community Interview with Sophia Salim (Beth Massi)
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. This time we have Sophia Salim, a Tester on the VB Compiler. I'm very happy to see Sophia reach out to the community and am looking forward to more interesting posts from her here. I'm always interested in what really goes on inside that compiler.Check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well.Here's the interview with Sophia:1. Nice to meet you Sophia Salim! Let’s begin by asking ...
Community Interview with John Stallo (Beth Massi)
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole with John Stallo, a Program Manager working on RAD tools. I first met John on my interview loop at Microsoft. What immediately stuck me when I met him was his Italian name but he has a very cool Australian accent. Being that we both have an Italian heritage, in the first part of my interview we talked about where we were from. That broke the ice quickly and I think I did well in the rest of the interview. :-)And if you haven't seen them already, check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of t...
Community Interview with Eric Knox (Beth Massi)
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Eric Knox, Development Manager on the VB IDE Team. I got to know Eric at TechEd this year where we had a lot of fun floating in the pool on bright pink inner-tubes. ;-) You can also see Eric in the interview I did with the IDE Team a while back on Channel 9.Also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well.Here's the interview with Eric:1. Nice to meet you Eric Knox! Let’s begin by asking...
Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
If you missed it, this week a new community submitted article was released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. In this article learn how to control the Vista operating system's speech recognition engine in .NET from a custom task pane in Microsoft Word 2007. This article compliments Alessandro's previous article on a text-to-speech add-in for Word 2007. Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
Community Interview with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we have Bill Horst, a tester on the VB Team. You might know Bill from his awesome series of blog posts on Converting SQL to LINQ.Also check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well.Here's the interview with Bill:1. Nice to meet you Bill Horst! Let’s begin by asking a simple question: where are you from?I’m originally from Ellicott City, Maryland (USA). Now I live in Seattle, Washington.2....