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Community Interview with Patrick Dengler (Beth Massi)

October 13, 2008 Oct 13, 2008 10/13/08
Beth Massi
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time we interview Patrick Dengler. You can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well. Here's the interview with Patrick: 1...

Why you should learn WPF (and how I can help)

October 6, 2007 Oct 6, 2007 10/6/07
VBTeam
A few weeks ago I mentioned I was working on a side project.  Well, then the soccer, tennis, and school season hit and..well I won't tell you the rest.  What I had started to do was take all of the samples in Charles Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup and rewrite them in VB for publication to the VB community. I ...

Small Business Developers Unite!

September 23, 2007 Sep 23, 2007 09/23/07
VBTeam
I can't believe it's already Sunday.  I've been spending all weekend (and the last few weeks) as a returning member of the VB team emersing myself in the product, specifically getting my head around how I would use VB today to build the types of solutoins when I was writing departmental applications, or applications for small businesses. ...

Back home again!

September 7, 2007 Sep 7, 2007 09/7/07
VBTeam
I can't tell you how excited I am to return to the Visual Basic team after almost eight years of absence!  I spent much time working in groups around Microsoft including games, office and business solutions.  But in each of these areas I focussed primarily on enabling developer scenarios.  And now I am back! And what am I here ...