Visual Basic Blog

A group blog from members of the VB team

Concurrent Basic on Channel 9 (Lucian Wischik, Lisa Feigenbaum)

Concurrency is an important topic on everyone's mind, when considering future trends for computing and programming languages. Concurrent Basic is a variant of the Visual Basic language, with new constructs baked in to help handle concurrency and parallelism, in a very natural way. Watch this high-energy video with language guru Erik Meijer, VB...

VB XML Literals with ASP.NET MVC (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Have you been following the buzz on VB XML Literals with ASP.NET MVC?! Last week, Beth Massi posted a Channel 9 video with ASP.NET Product Unit Manager Dmitry Robsman. You can find a written description of the topic on Dmitry's blog:ASP.NET MVC View Engine using VB.NET XML LiteralsThere has been an interesting discussion about this technique ...

Visual Basic at MIX ’09 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

For the Visual Basic web developers, be sure to check out MIX this year! The conference will be taking place March 18-20, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/eventsThe list of sessions is posted here. Included in the agenda will be the following Visual Basic session.Making XML Really, Really Easy ...

Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Check out the latest video in the 10-4 Channel 9 series, on Visual Basic 10: (image) Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 In this ninth episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to ...

Happy New Year! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy new year. We truly enjoy getting to know you through your comments and emails, so here's an opportunity to say "thanks"! (image)          (image) As we move forward to 2009, I thought...

VB Developer? Read MSDN Magazine? You're in luck! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

MSDN Magazine Editor in Chief, Howard Dierking, announced a number of changes to the magazine in the January 2009 Editor's Note. Among that list of changes was the following excerpt: "Furthermore, we recently began moving all of our article code samples to MSDN Code Gallery. This will allow our team to be much more agile in managing and ...

10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

It's a new week, and the 10-4 video podcast series continues! The topics for this week include an overview of VS 2010, and a special focus on the Start Page. Here's a description of the episode, from the creators:10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual ...

Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team has announced 10-4, a new video podcast. 10-4 will feature different capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week! To get the episodes, visit the show's new home on Channel9:  https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/ There you will also have the option to ...