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Nice to meet you! A Nine Question Interview (Lisa Feigenbaum)

August 29, 2008 Aug 29, 2008 08/29/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Chris Williams (VB MVP) started an interview series on his blog. In the series, he interviews various members in the technical community by asking them 9 questions. If you've read my blog posts and are interested to get to know me a little better, check out my 9 answers to Chris' questions!http://www.ninequestions.net/If you want to ...

Come hear about VB 2008 Tips & Tricks at TechEd US! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 4, 2008 Jun 4, 2008 06/4/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
The 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, June 4 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, S220 E  Speaker(s): Amanda Silver Track(s): ...

LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 05/15/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I 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 ...

VB 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 05/15/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Last week I went on a user group tour around Southern California. I've uploaded the materials from my talk: You can find these all posted together on the following Code Gallery page.The demo requires installation of Refactor!, which is a 3rd party tool available for free on MSDN. I also pointed out a number of resources at the end of ...

Come join me on a Southern California user group tour (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 5, 2008 May 5, 2008 05/5/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I will be presenting on the VB IDE in Southern California this week at a series of user group meetings. The events will be held in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area. Charlie Calvert from the C# team will be flying down from Redmond to speak as well. The schedule is as follows:  I will be speaking on Visual Basic 2008 ...

Did you know? You can now manage your snippet highlighting (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 15, 2008 Mar 15, 2008 03/15/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Do you use code snippets (introduced in VB 2005)? If you do, then you've probably noticed the green highlighting that stays around for the lifetime of the file. We've heard *a lot* of feedback that once you are done customizing the snippet, it is distracting to see this highlighting stay around. To address this, VB 2008 has improved the ...

Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

January 11, 2008 Jan 11, 2008 01/11/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Our goal in designing VB2008 IntelliSense was to make users of the feature the most productive that they could be. One problem we found in watching people use the feature, is that sometimes intelliSense displays so many items that it is hard to know whether or not you're close to the item you're looking for. You basically have to read them all...