Here's a great Channel 9 video with Program Manager Jay Schmelzer, that demonstrates a number of the VB 2005 IDE features mentioned below. In his 40 min interview with Ken Levy, Jay talks about what it's like to work on the VB team, shows how to use the IDE to make you most productive, and exposes a few cool tricks that most people&...
For our first VB IDE post on the VB team blog, I’d like to give you my list of the top 10 new features in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. Now that the product has been released, you can take advantage of these today!1. Edit and ContinueYou are again able to make changes to your code while debugging, back up the code instruction pointer if ...
Hi. My name is Lisa Feigenbaum and I am a program manager on the VB IDE. The VB IDE feature team (including testers, developers, and program managers) has been hosting a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide. However, we have decided to merge our efforts with the rest of the VB team and transfer our blog here instead. ...
Today is the official launch day of the new version of Visual Basic: This page links to the relevant information (how to get it, what's new, etc…)http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/You can also download the FREE Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition from here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/ Happy coding, Luca ...
We just released the VB Snippet Editor RTM RC!This release includes lots of new great features:- Code Snippet treeview; lets you browse through your registered snippet directories - 'Save as .vsi' option; lets you save your snippet as a .vsi package - Code colorizers; the language keywords are colorized like inside the VB editor - Improved ...
We’ve posted a new video on Channel9 about Code Snippets in VS2005. Click here to check out the 38min show. Here are some of the exciting topics that you can look forward to hearing about: · What code snippets are and why they were created in VB 2005.· How ...
(Posted by Steven Lees)One of the coolest things about code snippets is that in addition to the 400 or so that we include in the VB install, you can also make your own. We just posted a beta 2 update to the Snippet Editor--check it out on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/snippeteditor/. Thanks to Sean Draine and Sarika Calla ...
We've started a new blog on the Visual Basic IDE. The address is http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide. Check it out, and let us know what you think!Thanks,Lisa FeigenbaumVisual Basic Program Manager...
We’ve heard a lot of great feedback from VB developers about the Whidbey product this year, in many different ways. We visited a bunch of cities on our world wide user group tour (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/worldtour); we’ve read blogs and newsgroups; held chats; and gone to conferences, among other things. And of course there&...
Posted by: Robert Green, VB Program ManagerWelcome to the VB Team blog. Some members of the VB team have their own blogs so why do we need a team blog? Well, the VB Team is a group of individuals. And while individual team members will have their own blogs, the Team, as a group, also wants a blog. Paul Vick's blog (just one example) is a great...
