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Are you a VB developer and interested in Silverlight? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 22, 2008 Dec 22, 2008 12/22/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

If so, vote here to see more Silverlight samples in VB:http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=1222...

Join the Visual Basic team on Facebook! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 21, 2008 Dec 21, 2008 12/21/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

Do you spend a lot of time on Facebook? Facebook is now one more way that you can connect with the Visual Basic team, and other fellow Visual Basic friends. Log on and join today! Friends of the Microsoft Visual Basic Team Facebook Group (image...

Make sure you apply this fix before your VS2010 CTP VPC expires! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 20, 2008 Dec 20, 2008 12/20/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

Have you downloaded and started using the Visual Studio 2010 Community Technology Preview ("CTP")? If so, you may have noticed that the Virtual PC it runs on, will expire at the end of the year. See the following blog posts from Brian Keller and Jeff Beehler, on how to turn off the synchronization between the Virtual PC and the host OS, and ...

Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 19, 2008 Dec 19, 2008 12/19/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

Quick Search has to be one of my favorite features in the 2010 CTP. I find myself using it all the time! I hope you will find it useful in your development too. The Quick Search functionality has become a pretty common feature in development environments today. That's because it since it handles such a common scenario - needing to find ...

Walkthrough: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 17, 2008 Dec 17, 2008 12/17/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

This blog post is part of a series on the walkthroughs included in the October VS2010 CTP. Each walkthrough guides you through a series of steps, to help you experience the new features coming up in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Even if you choose not to download the CTP, you may find that you are still able to give feedback based...

Walkthrough: Office Programmability in Visual Basic and C# in VS 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 15, 2008 Dec 15, 2008 12/15/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

This is another walkthrough, demonstrating how to use some new Visual Studio 2010 features available in the October VS2010 CTP. It provides steps to follow in the CTP build; however, you may find that you are able to give feedback on the descriptions below without actually downloading and executing the steps yourself. Please leave your ...

Walkthrough: TDD Support with the Generate From Usage Feature in VS 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 13, 2008 Dec 13, 2008 12/13/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

As part of the October VS 2010 CTP, we also shipped a set of walkthrough documents explaining how to use the product to experience the new features. The CTP was released as a Virtual PC image, and can be a pretty hefty download to undertake. So for those of you just interested to know what's there, reading the walkthroughs can be a good ...

VB 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Posters — Download your copy today! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 11, 2008 Dec 11, 2008 12/11/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

Some of you may be using the 2005 posters we released last year. There is now a 2008 version available as well! There aren't too many changes. We've actually tried to stay pretty consistent with the VB keybindings (going back to at least VB6), since we know there's nothing more frustrating than upgrading and finding the keystroke that used to...

Using both VB.Net and C#? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 10, 2008 Dec 10, 2008 12/10/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

It's common today to switch back and forth between VB.Net and C# for different projects, jobs, teams, etc. VB MVP Kathleen Dollard and C# MVP Bill Wagner have gathered some tips to keep in mind when you make these transitions. They both write for Visual Studio Magazine, which is where these articles were released last week as part of the ...

Happy 10th Birthday to the Italian VB Tips and Tricks Community! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 8, 2008 Dec 8, 2008 12/8/08

Lisa Feigenbaum

"Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" is an Italian online community that was started 10 years ago today. To be exact, the first tips were actually published in 1996 on a personal web page of the founder and leader, Gianluca Cannalire. However, the group recognizes the first day of the "real community" as December 8th 1998, when a web portal was ...

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