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A group blog from members of the VB team
December 6, 2008Dec 6, 200812/6/08I’ve blogged the session materials for this presentation before, but now we finally have the video available too!
Here are some section markers:
Enjoy!
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/developer/tv/default.aspx?vid=79
November 24, 2008Nov 24, 200811/24/08Using Visual Basic, and thinking about Functional Programming? Here’s an excerpt from Eric White’s blog, explaining why you should:
Functional Programming (FP) has the potential to reduce program line count by 20% to 50%, reduce bugs and increase robustness, and move us in the direction of taking advantage of multiple core CPUs.
November 10, 2008Nov 10, 200811/10/08I’m here at TechEd Barcelona, and the week has gotten off to a great start. Jason Zander did the keynote this afternoon, and announced lots of great tooling support that will be included in Visual Studio 2010! Exciting stuff.
I have 4 sessions here,
September 3, 2008Sep 3, 200809/3/08This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea
Here are some direct links to the materials:
TLA 314 – Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks
TLA 323 –
September 2, 2008Sep 2, 200809/2/08Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I’ve created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session abstracts,
August 21, 2008Aug 21, 200808/21/08Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008. It was great to see so much excitement around LINQ and especially XML Literals!
June 30, 2008Jun 30, 200806/30/08In 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,
June 5, 2008Jun 5, 200806/5/08This week I presented “Microsoft Visual Basic IDE Tips and Tricks” at TechEd US 2008. Thanks to those of you who attended. The presentation materials are listed below.
Slide deck
2008 solution – post demo version
2005 solution – post demo version
2008 solution –
June 4, 2008Jun 4, 200806/4/08The VB team has two great sessions coming up on Wednesday June 4th, covering tips & tricks for the language and IDE. Abstracts are below. Hope to see you there!
TLA319 Microsoft Visual Basic 2008: Microsoft LINQ Language Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
Wednesday,
May 15, 2008May 15, 200805/15/08I presented the following talk this week at VSLive! Orlando 2008:
Visual Studio 2008: LINQ Deep Dive and Best PracticesLINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a key platform innovation introduced with Visual Studio 2008 which brings SQL-style query expressions into VB and C# enabling you to describe what data to reason about instead of how to access the data.
