Visual Basic Blog

Preparing for the Next Product Cycle (Matt Gertz)

January 30, 2008 Jan 30, 2008 01/30/08

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

I once had to learn how to juggle in a very brief time in order to get an “A” in my high school computer science class.  I am not making this up.  The idea was that juggling, being a systemic process, was somehow analogous to writing programs and… well, it sort of made sense at the time.  I’d done well ...

Euchre Revisited: Fixing bugs and service releases (Matt Gertz)

December 11, 2007 Dec 11, 2007 12/11/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

It’s really embarrassing when a bug gets out the door in a product.  In particular, it’s hard for me to just sit and take it (however well deserved the criticism is) when a Microsoft product gets nailed in the press for a bad error.  It’s much worse when a friend or relative is the one dealing out the grief.  However, ...

One is the Loneliest Number (Matt Gertz)

November 13, 2007 Nov 13, 2007 11/13/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

(This post assumes that you’ve read my previous post on Windows Media at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/10/30/let-the-music-play-matt-gertz.aspx – I will be modifying that code in this post.) After posting my media player blog sample a couple of weeks ago, I got a few questions from a reader called Saleem on how to adapt it...

Let the Music Play! (Matt Gertz)

October 30, 2007 Oct 30, 2007 10/30/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

Oh, boy.  Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’ve transitioned to a new job within Visual Studio and have been getting my sea legs there.  One of the job tasks is getting Visual Studio 2008 out to you folks, and while I’ve always been involved with that aspect of the product in the past, it was always to ...

Using the PrintForm component in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)

July 12, 2007 Jul 12, 2007 07/12/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

(This is the fourth and final part of the Paint-by-Numbers series) Late last year, some clever guys on our Visual Basic team released the PrintForm component on the web.  The idea behind the PrintForm component was to make printing and previewing your form very easy in .NET.  I’m going to leverage this component to enable printing ...

Loading and Saving Files in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)

July 10, 2007 Jul 10, 2007 07/10/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

(This is part 3 of the Paint-by-Numbers series)There are four issues I want to deal with in this post:  New, Open, Save (As), and Exit.  I’ll be doing these in order, but all of them depend on knowing whether or not the application is dirty, so I’ll deal with that problem first.  Opening and saving files isn’t ...

Implementing infinite undo/redo (Matt Gertz)

July 6, 2007 Jul 6, 2007 07/6/07

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

(This is the second part in my series on creating a Paint-by-Numbers designer application.)This is the first application that I’ve built specifically for this blog, where I’m actually writing the code while I’m writing the blog.  (For example, the Euchre game that I blogged about was something I’d written a couple ...