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VBTeam
VBTeam
Sep 14, 2006

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-...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Sep 13, 2006

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 ...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Jul 3, 2006

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...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Jun 27, 2006

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 ...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Jun 26, 2006

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 ...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Jun 19, 2006

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 ...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Apr 20, 2006

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.&...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Apr 7, 2006

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.  ...

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VBTeam
VBTeam
Mar 16, 2006

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 ...

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