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TechEd North America, here we come! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 30, 2009 Apr 30, 2009 04/30/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
TechEd North America 2009 is right around the corner. For those of you attending, we look forward to spending time with you at the VB.NET sessions and Technical Learning Center (a.k.a. booth). I've pasted the VB.NET session list below. See you in LA...

Luca Bolognese on Asynchronous HTML caching in VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 29, 2009 Apr 29, 2009 04/29/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
You may know Luca Bolognese from his well-known work on C# LINQ. Luca is now the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. You can check out his blog here. Luca recently blogged his first VB.NET post. It is about asynchronous HTML caching, and is part of a longer series in which he is converting a financial VBA Excel add-in to .NET. The ...

The Silverlight Toolkit Adds Visual Basic Samples (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 26, 2009 Mar 26, 2009 03/26/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code. Please follow the links to view these samples for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. Silverlight 2: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html Silverlight 3: http://silverlight.net/samples/sl3/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/...

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight: VB QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To Topics released! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 25, 2009 Mar 25, 2009 03/25/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Today the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team released a download aimed to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. It includes VB versions of the QuickStarts, Hands-On-Labs, and How-To topics: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=537da1cd-43e1-4799-88e7-a1da9166fb46 I've ...

MIX 09 Video: Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic (Alex Turner, Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Alex Turner presented VB XML yesterday here at MIX 09. Check out the video from his session! Video link: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/mix(The powerpoint slides are attached.) Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 MIX09-T72M Wednesday March 18 |11:55 AM-12:15 PM | San Polo 3401 By: Alex Turner Tags: Languages See ...

Visual Studio at MIX 09 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
MIX 09 is here! ScottGu kicks off the keynote today at 9am PST. Below is the list of Visual Studio related sessions. The full conference list is posted here. Didn't buy a pass? Don't worry. Tune in to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/events to watch sessions live, or to view them on-demand within 24hrs of recording. In ...

Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 15, 2009 Mar 15, 2009 03/15/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techdays I've included the direct links below as well. Future Directions for Visual...

Visual Studio 2008 Voted Best IDE! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 1, 2009 Mar 1, 2009 03/1/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
The results from InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards are in. Visual Studio 2008 was voted Best IDE, with the following commentary:Microsoft Visual Studio 2008Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework, and it's peerless among IDEs for any language. The 2008 ...