Visual Basic Blog
A group blog from members of the VB team
Latest posts
TechEd Online: .Net, A Multi-Language Platform (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Bart and Lisa Simpson - well actually, Bart de Smet and I recorded an interview about the .Net Managed Languages. :) You can find that interview on the TechEd Online South Africa library page. Otherwise, you can also launch the video directly from here. Below is the abstract from our discussion:.NET, A Multi-Language Platform In this talk, Lisa Feigenbaum and Bart de Smet introduce the Microsoft language portfolio and discuss WPF, new features in Visual Basic and Visual C#, and provide answers to questions they receive on Microsoft's developer tools and languages.Bart de Smet is a developer on the ...
VB Catch … When: Why so special?
The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception. Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the following:" This is true to an extent. In both cases the code is handling an exception and making a decision, via calling Filter, as to whether or not to handle the exception. The subtle difference is when the Filter method is called. In VB the When statement...
Community Interview with Lisa Feigenbaum (Beth Massi)
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we interview Lisa Feigenbaum, now a Visual Basic Community Program Manager! Cool!Remember that you can take a look at 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 Lisa: 1. Nice to meet you Lisa! Let’s begin by asking a simple question: Where are you from?Los Angeles, California2. We all know that you’re a Visual Basic team member, but can you tell us something more abou...
Are you using Silverlight with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
There are a bunch of great How-Do-I videos on the http://silverlight.net site to get you started! There are four different categories of videos, and they all include Visual Basic code available for download.Silverlight 2 BasicsControlsWeb Services and DataData
VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 6: Writing an XSLT Transform in VB (Doug Rothaus)
Most XSLT programmers are familiar with this XSLT transform to copy an XML file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template></x...
Community Interview with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)
One of our Italian Visual Basic MVPs, Alessandro Del Sole, sent over some interview questions for the Visual Basic Team members to get our thoughts on the language and favorite features but mostly to share some of our personal interests to help you get to know us better. I also learned some fun facts about the team as well! Alessandro is also translating these interviews and posting them on the Italian Visual Basic Tips&Tricks site. You can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios of those team members who aren't shy. ;-). The home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center will also dis...
Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Microsoft has announced the names Visual Studio 10 and .Net Framework 4.0 for the next versions of these two products! Here are a number of references where you can look to find more information about this announcement:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspxhttp://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Announces-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-40/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb936699.aspxhttp://www.cio.com/article/451622/Microsoft_Announces_Visual_Studio_._Developers_Respond.?https://channel...
Looking for Setup and Deployment Project Templates? (Mary Lee)
Let's say that you've developed an application using the free Visual Studio Express Edition. Now, you want to deploy your application to the masses, and you read documentation about How to: Create or Add Deployment Projects. Here's how the topic starts: To create a new deployment project In this example, I'm using Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. However, when I open the New Project dialog box, there isn't an Other Project Types node. The Other Projects Types node is only available in Standard Edition or higher (such as Professional Edition and Team System Edition). Also, you cannot download ...
Where is the VB Team going to be over the next few months? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-) October 6-7, 2008 Software Development Conference 2008: http://www.sdc.nl/ Beth Massi October 8-10, 2008TechEd Hong Kong: http://www.microsoft.com/hk/technet/teched2008/ Karen Liu October 21-23, 2008OOPSLA: http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/Dustin Campbell October 27-30, 2008Professional Developers Conference: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Paul VickDustin CampbellLisa FeigenbaumAlex Turner November 8-9, 2008S...