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Apr 10, 2017
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Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

Klaus Loeffelmann
Klaus Loeffelmann

...letting your code do absolutely nothing! We’ve all been there, one way or the other. Either as users of an app or as the developer to whom users complained to: When a typical Win32 app is waiting for an operation to complete, we often get to see something like this: In discussions about how to get a handle on such scenarios there are all kinds ...

Jun 20, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 5: calling into platform-specific APIs from PCL

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 5 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: So far we've been able to re-use all our code and XAML by placing them in the PCL. Actually, PCLs can only ever contain calls to APIs that are common to the platforms they target. This generally isn't a problem, because most APIs on Windows also exist on Windows Phone, and vi...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 4: using SharpDX for sound effects

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 4 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: So far we've built a solid app, sharing as much code and XAML as possible by placing it in our PCL. For today's post we'll continue the process, adding game-quality sound effects to our app. SharpDX is the best way to do this. Please bear with me. This is a long technical...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 3 (for the end-user): roaming settings, and in-app purchases

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 3 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: In the first two parts we set up a VS Solution that helped us to share between our two app projects. In this post, we're going to code in the user-facing benefits of universal Windows apps. From an end-user perspective, the benefit of universal Windows apps is that (1) if yo...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 2 (for the developer): sharing XAML, Assets and Code

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

This is Part 2 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: In Part 1 we set ourselves up by registering the app in the two Dev Centers, and by creating the basic structure in Solution Explorer. In Part 2 today, we're going to share! From a developer perspective, the benefit of universal Windows apps is in sharing as much as possible...

Feb 28, 2012
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Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

VBTeam
VBTeam

As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download.  This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a first-class asynchronous programming experience, and also the long-awaited Iterators feature....

Aug 12, 2011
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New Async Programming Video's

VBTeam
VBTeam

Some great new video's on MSDN showing how to do async programming using the Async CTP. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh378091.aspx There are different versions of video's for both VB and C#.    This is a great opportunity to see the power of the new Async languages featuresand follow through a series of examples showing ho...

May 10, 2011
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Simultaneous Async Tasks (Alan Berman)

VBTeam
VBTeam

The new Async feature in the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) provides an elegantly simple technique to make code asynchronous.Our writing team uses an internal app that would benefit from asynchronous calls.  For each URL contained in the MSDN documentation that we publish, the app lists the title from the link, and the title parsed from...

Apr 13, 2011
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Async Feature Control Flow (Alan Berman)

VBTeam
VBTeam

What is asynchronous programming? Let's say you send out an email, then wait and do nothing for the two minutes it takes to get a response back. You do nothing while you're waiting. It's worth waiting because it'll be back fast. When that happens, sending the email and getting a response is synchronous. But another time you send an email and then f...