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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Basic 2005 Command-line Compiler (VBC.exe) Hotfix Released!
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download. We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center. Overall, SP1 offers customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Basic 2005. This service pack rolls up all of the Visual Basic 2005 hotfixes we’ve made to date and provides you the best overall performance and st...
Holiday fun with LinQ, and LinQ technologies in mind
OK, so when you're playing around with LinQ and all it's various additional bits, you really do get to have a bit of fun. I've made this available simply because i enjoyed doing it. The basic idea is to time and then compare the duration of various 'IsPrime' implementations. The 'client' simply allows you to run various IsPrime implementations. The IPrime interface defines the basic structure of running the exercise, while BasePrime provides the majority of the required code. Then, three imlpementations are provided (I make no defense of their efficiency!). The LinQ aspect to this is in two parts: - The 'Run' imp...
Key VB Hotfixes Available for Download
We’ve heard from you that popular hotfixes should be a public download rather than requiring a call to support. Based your feedback, we’ve launched a pilot program that will allow you to download the most frequently requested Visual Basic 2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support. For more information about this pilot and a list of hotfixes that are available for download please visit the pilot home page. The following Visual Basic 2005 hotfixes are available for download: Registration is required for download. Let us know what y...
Interop Roadmap – UserControls, MDI, and Data
Recently the VB team released the Interop Forms Toolkit, which allows VB6 developers to extend their existing applications using .NET. The toolkit allows developers to write a regular Windows Form in VB.NET, click “Generate Wrapper Classes”, and then call those forms from VB6. It also provides mechanisms for firing and handling events, and sharing application state (i.e. Globals). We’ve heard a lot of great feedback since the release. For example, we heard that a better interop story and things like the toolkit help enable more gradual migrations. We also heard that several scenario...
Notes from a recent tour to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Phillipines (well, almost!)
All, I recently went on a trip to 3 Asian countries, and thought I would share the notes.Here’s my summary of the recent trip a colleague and I made to Asia. The trip was cut short due to a typhoon in Manila, which was a real shame: my colleague and I were very much looking forward to seeing the Philippines. However, the trip was still excellent. My notes below are written semi-formerly, to make it a more interesting read. ArrivalWell, Hong Kong is certainly a bustling place. I arrived just before midnight on Saturday, and there must have been a few of flights arriving at the same time, becau...
Check out "Live from Redmond series #3" from the .NET FX product teams
The .NET Framework teams are providing several Live Meeting presentations spanning application technologies like Smart Clients, Web 2.0 (AJAX) and Mobile. Check out SimonMu's blog for more information:http://blogs.msdn.com/simonmu/archive/2006/10/09/The-next-series-of-team-member-Live-From-Redmond-webcasts.aspxSimon also pointed me to a great video archive:http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#ajax If you're a VB developer and you're interested in these modern .NET app types, I think you'll want to check this out. Enjoy!Best,Paul YuknewiczVisual Basic Team
VB Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET
by Kathleen McGrath If you're a Visual Basic developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET, you should check out this new MSDN article: A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0There's also a number of introductory webcasts and multimedia presentations at Learn ASP.NET
Video Screencast: Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0
by Kathleen McGrathI've created a screencast that shows you how to create a Windows form in Visual Basic 2005 that you can call from your Visual Basic 6 application using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. The screencast is about 6 minutes long.Interop Forms Toolkit Screencast
Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack!
I’m excited to announce that the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Pack has been released and is now available for download on MSDN! In this release we have two components: Both components are fully supported, and we’ve included the source code for the Interop Toolkit as well. For more information check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/powerpacks/default.aspx We plan to release additional components for the Power Pack in the coming months, and your feedback is an important part of the process. Is there a specific component you’d like to see? Let us kno...