Visual Basic Blog
A group blog from members of the VB team
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Are you using the ASP.Net MVC Framework with Visual Basic? (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 covers both 'drill-down' applications as well as showing how to update an existing database record and add a new record."
Visual Basic and CSharp IDEs Uncensored (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 North America 2008 Developers conference. The video is posted at the TechEd Online Library. You can also find a direct link here.
Visual Basic Developer Center Revamped! (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 Basic Developer Center to be your new home page? I know I have. :) http://msdn.com/vbasic The Visual Basic Developer Center is your best one-stop shop for everything Visual Basic. If there are any changes you'd like to see there, let us know! To hear what ot...
Visual Basic at TechEd SouthEast Asia (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 CSharp 3.0 Features that Make LINQ Work TLA 335 - Conquering XML with Visual Basic 9.0 And now, some pictures below. :)
Visual Basic at TechEd South Africa 2008 (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: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/tesalf/More details on the individual sessions are below. Please click the talk names to view their downloadable materials.DEV311 - Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks Abstract: In this session, learn how to turn yourself into a Visual Basic 2...
Around the World with Visual Basic (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 Asia in Kuala Lumpur. Here's a picture from the TechEd SouthEast Asia MVP and speaker dinner: Left to right: Prasanna Amirthalingam (VB MVP, Sri Lanka), Lisa Feigenbaum (VB Program Manager, Microsoft Redmond), Chan Wei Min (VB MVP, Malaysia), TK TEH, Tiong Keen (VB MVP, Mala...
Nice to meet you! A Nine Question Interview (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Chris Williams (VB MVP) started an interview series on his blog. In the series, he interviews various members in the technical community by asking them 9 questions. If you've read my blog posts and are interested to get to know me a little better, check out my 9 answers to Chris' questions!http://www.ninequestions.net/If you want to let us get to know you a little better, answer the questions about yourself in the comments to this post. :)
How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project. How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? This video is based on the topic: How to: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks, where you can get the code and follow along step-by-step. Enjoy, Kathleen
Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
Today I posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community