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Dec 9, 2014
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New Language Features in Visual Basic 14

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

"Visual Basic 14" is the version of Visual Basic that will ship with Visual Studio 2015. In this blog post I'll talk specifically about the VB language improvements in this release. (Separately, there are a whole host of IDE and project-system improvements as well). There are two overall themes to the language improvements: (1) Make common coding ...

Nov 26, 2014
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New Language Features in Visual Basic 14 (animated)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

"Visual Basic 14" is the version of Visual Basic that will ship with Visual Studio 2015. In this blog post I'll talk specifically about the VB language improvements in this release. (Separately, there are a whole host of IDE and project-system improvements as well). There are two overall themes to the language improvements: (1) Make common coding ...

Jun 21, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App: downloads

VBTeam
VBTeam

Here are download links for the "VB Universal Windows App" series:   App1.vb This is the minimal VB universal app that we'll build in this blog series.   Breakout Universal This is a complete game, based upon all the principles that were covered in the blog series. &...

Jun 20, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 5: calling into platform-specific APIs from PCL

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 5 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: So far we've been able to re-use all our code and XAML by placing them in the PCL. Actually, PCLs can only ever contain calls to APIs that are common to the platforms they target. This generally isn't a problem, because most APIs on Windows also exist on Windows Phone, and ...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 4: using SharpDX for sound effects

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 4 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: So far we've built a solid app, sharing as much code and XAML as possible by placing it in our PCL. For today's post we'll continue the process, adding game-quality sound effects to our app. SharpDX is the best way to do this. Please bear with me. This is a long technical...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 3 (for the end-user): roaming settings, and in-app purchases

VBTeam
VBTeam

This is Part 3 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: In the first two parts we set up a VS Solution that helped us to share between our two app projects. In this post, we're going to code in the user-facing benefits of universal Windows apps. From an end-user perspective, the benefit of universal Windows apps is that (1) if ...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 2 (for the developer): sharing XAML, Assets and Code

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

This is Part 2 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series: In Part 1 we set ourselves up by registering the app in the two Dev Centers, and by creating the basic structure in Solution Explorer. In Part 2 today, we're going to share! From a developer perspective, the benefit of universal Windows apps is in sharing as much as possible...

Jun 15, 2014
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VB Universal Windows App Part 1: Getting Started

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

This is Part 1 of the "VB Universal Windows App" series:   Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I'd take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here's how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores:   What is a Universal Windows ...

Feb 28, 2012
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Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

VBTeam
VBTeam

As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download.  This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a first-class asynchronous programming experience, and also the long-awaited Iterators feature...

Sep 27, 2011
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Announcement: Namespace Global

VBTeam
VBTeam

There’s a new feature coming to VB, and already included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. The feature is called Namespace Global and it’ll make your life easier… The MSDN reference on namespaces (including Namespace Global) is here: Namespaces in Visual Basic. As an aside, I’d like to thank Shimmy ...