A group blog from members of the VB team
March 31, 2008Mar 31, 200803/31/08All – I’m about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here:
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=LaunchVB&ReleaseId=805
November 21, 2007Nov 21, 200711/21/07I guess I’ve been working too hard on getting the product ready to ship to notice that Bart has put together an awesome blog series on VB9.
It includes discussion of a feature called runtime agility or compiler agility that we haven’t taken up on this blog.
November 21, 2007Nov 21, 200711/21/07Yesterday I promised to post about the hidden gems in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 that you haven’t read about in blog posts or seen at conferences. I forgot that I mentioned a few of my favorite features in the Beta1 announcement where I showed off the improvements in the Intellisense experience –
November 19, 2007Nov 19, 200711/19/07Hooray! Today we’ve finally shipped Visual Studio 2008, previously known as “Orcas”, previously known as some symbol which doesn’t have an ascii representation. We’ve come a long way, but it’s been a great ride. In his blog, Soma mentions many of the flagship features at a high-level that will undoubtedly make the every developer and head of IT salivate,
August 17, 2007Aug 17, 200708/17/07I just posted an interview with Amanda on Channel 9 where she walks us through the new LINQ syntax available in VS 2008 Beta 2. I also posted some How Do I videos on LINQ to help get you started —
July 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07If you haven’t seen or experienced Second Life it’s pretty amazing. It’s an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world’s live presentation theater! Amanda Silver will be presenting Visual Basic on Silverlight tomorrow,
July 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM’s face on that landing page — he’s so happy the Beta is done.)
What’s inside?
July 5, 2007Jul 5, 200707/5/07Amanda Silver gave a great webcast Tuesday morning on LINQ to XML (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck she used.
Happy LINQing!
–Beth Massi, Program Manager VS Community
VB9 – Conquering XML with LINQ to XML.pptx
June 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07Amanda Silver came down with a nasty sickness last night so we just had to reschedule her Live From Redmond: VB9 – Conquering XML with LINQ to XML talk for this Tuesday July 3rd. If you’re already registered then you’re good to go for next week and automated emails should have been sent out to notify you all of the change.
June 13, 2007Jun 13, 200706/13/07Back by popular demand! Amanda Silver will be presenting Live From Redmond: VB9 – Conquering XML with LINQ to XML on June 27th.
In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code that you write and the XML that you’re trying to express. Amanda will take you from the guts of the LINQ to XML API to the easy to grasp abstractions presented in Visual Basic 9.0.
