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How-Do-I Videos: WPF Forms over Data (Beth Massi)

July 17, 2008 Jul 17, 2008 07/17/08
Beth Massi
If you haven't noticed, we released a couple new how-to videos on the VB Dev Center starting a new series which is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008. The videos are also being featured on www.WindowsClient.net today. Look for many more in the coming weeks!Enjoy,-...

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08
Beth Massi
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded ...

Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word (Beth Massi)

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
Beth Massi
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole. The article shows how to use Visual Studio 2008 to create an add-in for Word 2007 that will read your ...

Visual Basic "Learn" Section of MSDN – Give it a Spin (Beth Massi)

May 9, 2008 May 9, 2008 05/9/08
Beth Massi
The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and VS 2008 topics. If you look at the center of the page you'll see the list of topics and when you click one, you should now see some fresh stuff. Currently there's over 200 items presented on the topic pages and we're adding ...

New "How Do I" Videos Available on the Visual Basic Developer Center (Beth Massi)

March 24, 2008 Mar 24, 2008 03/24/08
Beth Massi
If you missed it, last week 48 new How Do I videos (Forms over data, Windows development, Office development and Security) were added to the Visual Basic Developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. Many thanks to Rob Windsor, Pat Tormey and Steve Hansen for doing these videos.In addition to these I also...

Language Futures Page on Code Gallery (Beth Massi)

March 11, 2008 Mar 11, 2008 03/11/08
Beth Massi
Go take an early peak at what the VB and C# teams are cooking up for the next version by visiting the Language Futures page on Code Gallery. Code Gallery is not just about samples. It also allows us to host threaded discussions and the teams want your feedback on some features they are considering for the next version of Visual Studio. Charlie...

New Community Article – Windows Workflow 101 (Beth Massi)

February 19, 2008 Feb 19, 2008 02/19/08
Beth Massi
Yesterday on the Visual Basic Developer Center we released a new article by VB MVP, Maurice DeBeijer on getting started with Windows Workflow called Windows Workflow 101. This is the first in a series of Workflow articles by Maurice. If you're struggling with how to use this technology in your applications this is a great place to start. The ...