Visual Basic Blog
A group blog from members of the VB team
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Create Add-ins for Office 2007 with Visual Basic
By Kathleen McGrathThe beta release of Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 SE) was announced today. VSTO 2005 SE is a free add-...
Visual Basic Express Edition Videos
by Kathleen McGrath Have you ever wished that you could have someone show you how to accomplish a programming task instead of having to read through the ...
Whats New In VB2005 – Some parts of the TechEd demos
So I cleaned up my teched demos and editted the notes so hopefully, someone other than me (without access to what's inside my head ;-)) can follow along and see...
Generics Patterns and Practices: ideas and suggestions for when to use generics
So at TechEd-2006, I gave a chalktalk on generics patterns and practices. I've zipped the content up here so folks can check it out if they want. I start by ...
VB Curioddities #1: Enum, Enum, my kingdom for an Enum.Parse
Hey folks, my name's Kit George and I've joined the VB team from the CLR. VB is after all, the best language, so of course, it makes sense to work directly on ...
VB6 Collections: The Missing LINQ
By Jonathan Aneja Hi, my name’s Jonathan and I’m a Program Manager on the VB team, working mainly on LINQ features. One of the things I love ...
EMEA Tour Followup
PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin.&...
Paper on XML features of VB9
Just wanted to point out a paper Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer wrote on the XML features of VB9.  ...
New VB9 Bloggers
By Amanda Silver I just wanted to let you know that we’re working furiously on turning the VB9 features into an actual product, understanding ...