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Video: The Joy of Writing Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Karen Liu)

December 5, 2008 Dec 5, 2008 12/5/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
We've had a couple recent posts about the Code Focused development experience coming up in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE: Code Focus Announcements in the TechEd EMEA Keynote Code Focus Videos on Channel 9 Now for the ultimate coverage (a complete TechEd presentation on the subject), check out the following video by Karen Liu! (image) http...

Did you know there's a VB user group meeting each month at Microsoft Redmond? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 2, 2008 Dec 2, 2008 12/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
That's right... Just downstairs from our offices there is a VB user group that meets the fourth Monday each month. It's let by Robert Green, a former Microsoft employee, who used to work on the VB team! There are a lot of Microsoft speakers at this user group, so if you live in the area it's a great way to meet some folks on the team, and tell...

Code Focused Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 2, 2008 Dec 2, 2008 12/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Do you spend a lot of your day in code? (Writing code, navigating code, modifying code, understanding code, testing code, debugging code, etc.) If so, then the Visual Studio 2010 IDE has got a lot in store for you! In this release we're focusing on optimizing for code-focused development, which covers each of these tasks. There are a number of...

VS 2010 Announcements at TechEd EMEA (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 2, 2008 Dec 2, 2008 12/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
TechEd EMEA kicked off on November 10th with an announcement-packed keynote by Visual Studio General Manager, Jason Zander! The 82min video has been made available for public viewing here. Below are some minute markers as well, in case you don't have time to watch the whole thing. Here's some other coverage you may want to check out, as well...

Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008 11/25/08
Beth Massi
Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called XML Literals, which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much easier that many C# developers are moving to VB.Net for their XML work! To learn more...

Spain User Group Tour: All Good Things Must Come to An End (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008 11/25/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
After three and a half days visiting user groups through Spain, Jon and I have flown back to the US. We got to meet some great people and had lots of fun talking about VB. The slide decks that we used on the trip are attached at the end of this post. PPT: Deep Dive on VB 9.0 (link to be added shortly)PPT: Visual Basic IDE Tips and Tricks ...

Tutorial: Functional Programming with Visual Basic 9.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 24, 2008 Nov 24, 2008 11/24/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Using 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 ...