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Here's a brief addition to my Visual Basic Around the World post... This one's for the folks in SouthEast Asia. The TechEd MVP and Speaker dinner made it into the local Malaysian paper. You can see a copy of the article below. The theme was "Bling-tastic!". I'm at the bottom left with other international speakers: David Tesar, Steve Riley, and...

Maybe you just started a job at a company whose development is in VB. Maybe you're working with XML, or Office, and heard that VB would be the best language for this project. Or maybe you're just switching over, to understand what millions of developers around the world love about VB! :) Whatever your reason may be, this post is for you.You'll find...

Now you can! Expression Encoder just released an update last month allowing VB developers to use the Expression Encoder 2 SDK. Here's the announcement:http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2008/07/26/8773569.aspxExpression Encoder is a tool for video encoding, and is a member of the Expression product suite. It allows you to import a...

After watching this video, you just might be convinced to try it out! VB MVP Billy Hollis demonstrates that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is about a lot more than just pretty UI. He shows how the technology can be used in an extremely useful way, to create killer line-of-business applications. Watch a few minutes, and you'll under...

If so here's a great tutorial video for you to check out, by VB MVP Bill Burrows:http://www.myvbprof.com/2007_version/MVC_P4_Tutorial.aspxHere's a description of the tutorial: "This tutorial covers an overview to the MVC pattern using MVC Preview 4 and Visual Basic. It highlights the changes in the MVC model since the release of Preview 1 and cover...

Interested in hearing about what the Visual Basic and CSharp program managers *really* think about the two IDEs? Come join Karen Liu and me as we chat about the goals, similarities and differences of the VB & C# IDEs. We also discuss our favorite features and where we think IDEs are going in the future. This talk was recorded at TechEd North Am...

Have you refreshed your VB Dev Center page today? If you did, you'll notice a new look on both the Home page and the Learn tab. Also check out the new Forums and Community pages. For more info on the specific changes, please see these blog posts by Beth Massi and John Martin, who were involved in the redesign. Have you set the Visual Basi...

This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea Here are some direct links to the materials: TLA 314 - Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks TLA 323 - Best Practices for the VB9.0 and CSharp 3....

Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I've created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session abstracts, powerpoints, and solutions. That resource page is available here: http://...

I just finished a month-long 'round the world trip, where I was speaking about Visual Basic and meeting with local Microsoft representatives. I started off in Durban in early August, where I spoke at TechEd South Africa 2008. (More info on my talks and presentation materials to follow in my next post.) Then I continued on to TechEd SouthEast Asia i...