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Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
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...

VB Universal Windows App Part 5: calling into platform-specific APIs from PCL

June 20, 2014 Jun 20, 2014 06/20/14
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 vice ...

VB Universal Windows App Part 4: using SharpDX for sound effects

June 15, 2014 Jun 15, 2014 06/15/14
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 ...

*New* video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy

May 5, 2014 May 5, 2014 05/5/14
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Hey VB hackers, Microsoft Virtual Academy recently published a six-part series all about building modern apps for the Windows Store using your favorite language and staring Visual Basic MVP Bill Burrows and yours truly :) Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and greatest ...

Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

February 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012 02/28/12
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 ...

New Async Programming Video's

August 12, 2011 Aug 12, 2011 08/12/11
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 ...

Simultaneous Async Tasks (Alan Berman)

May 10, 2011 May 10, 2011 05/10/11
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...

Async Feature Control Flow (Alan Berman)

April 13, 2011 Apr 13, 2011 04/13/11
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 ...