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.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us

June 24, 2014 Jun 24, 2014 06/24/14

Beth Massi

WOW! It’s been a while -- almost exactly 4 years since yours truly, Beth Massi, last posted on the VB Team blog (although it’s cool to see I’m still in the tag cloud ;-)). I’m honored to be a special guest post today. If you’ve been reading this team blog I’m sure you know by now that the .NET Compiler Platform (code named...

Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

June 22, 2010 Jun 22, 2010 06/22/10

Beth Massi

I’m back with Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB compiler team, shows us the ins and outs of how multi-targeting works in Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2010 in this Channel 9 interview: Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010What's tricky in Visual Studio 2010 is that there are now two supported ...

Channel 9 Interview: Array and Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 2010 (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

May 3, 2010 May 3, 2010 05/3/10

Beth Massi

I’ve written about collection initializers on my blog before, but I thought I’d catch up with the VB Team to tell me more about how they really work.In this interview Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB Compiler team, shows us a couple of new language features: Array and Collection Initializers. He gives us insight into how they are ...

New Learning Resources on the Visual Basic Developer Center (Beth Massi)

February 1, 2010 Feb 1, 2010 02/1/10

Beth Massi

Today we revamped some of the Visual Basic Developer Center Learn pages with more content that allows you to pivot on more fine-grained topics and tasks related to Visual Basic programming. We’ve started with the Introductory Topics and Language Syntax pages. To get there, head to http://msdn.com/vbasic and then click the Learn tab. There ...

How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi, Matt Gertz)

May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 05/22/09

Beth Massi

Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build process that spits out a product at the other end? Well I sure did and it's not just hitting F5 people ;-). In this interview I sit down with Matt Gertz, frequent VB blogger and also the guy in charge of the builds in Developer Division (...

CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi (Lisa Feigenbaum, Beth Massi)

May 7, 2009 May 7, 2009 05/7/09

Beth Massi

Code Cast Episode 20: Interview with Beth MassiThis show's interview is Ken interviewing Beth Massi, Microsoft, program manager on Microsoft’s BizApps team in the VS group. Beth discusses her work over the past two years at Microsoft on the VB team and now on the BizApps team, and chats about some cool new features and content in Visual ...

.NET Rocks! with Beth Massi on the Open XML SDK and XML Literals (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 1, 2009 May 1, 2009 05/1/09

Beth Massi

Beth Massi shot a couple of great episodes last month on dnrTV! If you are interested in learning more about the Open XML SDK, and how to easily access it using VB.NET XML Literals, be sure to check them out. dnrTV Show #137: Beth Massi on the Open XML SDK Our good friend Beth Massi returns to dnrTV to introduce us to the Open XML SDK, ...

Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi, Tyler Whitney)

March 27, 2009 Mar 27, 2009 03/27/09

Beth Massi

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview. This time it's with Tyler Whitney, a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team. Here he demonstrates how line termination has changed in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation indicators. This makes your code more readable especially when writing multi-line ...

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps (Beth Massi, Milind Lele)

March 24, 2009 Mar 24, 2009 03/24/09

Beth Massi

Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps.At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked me if he could interview Milind Lele himself to get the low-down -- I said sure! Milind...

Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi, Lucian Wischik)

March 20, 2009 Mar 20, 2009 03/20/09

Beth Massi

Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview I meet up with Touchless SDK creator, Mike Wasserman and Visual Basic Spec Lead, Lucian Wischik. ...

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