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New Data Repeater Control in Latest Power Packs Release! (Beth Massi)

February 18, 2008 Feb 18, 2008 02/18/08
Beth Massi
Check it out, the team just released a new version of the Visual Basic Power Packs which now includes a Data Repeater control. Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, and Tools for you to use that make developing .NET applications even easier.  From the Power Packs Team: Today we are announcing the ...

Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense (Beth Massi)

January 17, 2008 Jan 17, 2008 01/17/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard. He also shows the differences between how IntelliSense works with axis properties on XDocument and XElement ...

Higher Algebra with Operator Overloads (Brian Beckman)

December 19, 2007 Dec 19, 2007 12/19/07
Beth Massi
Recently I did a Channel 9 interview with Beth Massi where I walked through a Visual Basic program that used Generics and Operator overloads to perform some higher mathematics. I thought I'd follow up with a post explaining the details of exactly what I did. Operator overloads with Generics enable some beautiful designs for data types in ...

Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
Beth Massi
I released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum, PM on the VB Team where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all the new refactorings that were added for the latest version of Visual Basic 2008. You can download ...

New VB Community Article: Creating Visual Studio Add-ins (Beth Massi)

December 10, 2007 Dec 10, 2007 12/10/07
Beth Massi
Rod Paddock's latest Community Article is up on the Visual Basic Developer Center on Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins which first appeared in CoDe Magazine. Rod goes a little bit deeper than I did when building an add-in and shows how to work with the project system and automatically open files and insert code. Thanks for submitting, Rod! Enjoy...

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Shell released (Beth Massi)

November 21, 2007 Nov 21, 2007 11/21/07
Beth Massi
Today the VS Ecosystem team released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and the Visual Studio 2008 shell. The VS 2008 SDK contains full native Visual Basic support and contains many VB samples. What was in the VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK is now included in the VS 2008 SDK, plus more. I've started playing with building Visual Studio AddIns in ...

Don Box on Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

November 13, 2007 Nov 13, 2007 11/13/07
Beth Massi
It looks like Don Box is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it's unique XML support, LINQ query syntax, and lambdas. He even mentions in a post about authentication with REST that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Basic 9. There's so many interesting things you can do with VB9 and XML. If you want to get ...