A group blog from members of the VB team
November 3, 2010Nov 3, 201011/3/10Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience team, describes the changes to the Microsoft Help Viewer planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. He demonstrates the new functionality of the viewer in an early build of Help Viewer 1.1.
See Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
You can learn more in The Story of Help in Visual Studio 2010
June 19, 2009Jun 19, 200906/19/09In the second part of my interview with Doug Rothaus, he describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010. Learn about the most common scenarios that no longer require the underscore character (_) in the topic, Statements in Visual Basic.
June 12, 2009Jun 12, 200906/12/09In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the auto-implemented properties in Visual Basic 2010. He also demonstrates some of the code examples in his Help topic: Auto-Implemented Properties.
See the Video: Auto-Implement Properties.
August 28, 2008Aug 28, 200808/28/08With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project.
How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks?
October 11, 2007Oct 11, 200710/11/07The documentation team has just released a survey aimed at gathering feedback on Visual Studio content. Are you dying to tell us what you think about the Visual Studio content in the MSDN library? Please share your perspective by taking part in the Visual Studio Content Survey.
October 4, 2006Oct 4, 200610/4/06by Kathleen McGrath
If you’re a Visual Basic developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET, you should check out this new MSDN article: A Visual Basic Developer’s Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
There’s also a number of introductory webcasts and multimedia presentations at Learn ASP.NET
September 23, 2006Sep 23, 200609/23/06by Kathleen McGrath
I’ve created a screencast that shows you how to create a Windows form in Visual Basic 2005 that you can call from your Visual Basic 6 application using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. The screencast is about 6 minutes long.
September 14, 2006Sep 14, 200609/14/06By Kathleen McGrath
The beta release of Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 SE) was announced today. VSTO 2005 SE is a free add-on for Visual Studio (Professional or above) that enables you to create add-ins for the most popular Office 2007 and Office 2003 applications.
September 13, 2006Sep 13, 200609/13/06by Kathleen McGrath
Have you ever wished that you could have someone show you how to accomplish a programming task instead of having to read through the steps on how to perform the task? Or maybe you just need a little more clarification about where a particular option is located.
