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TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 2, 2008 Nov 2, 2008 11/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Software Engineer) gave an awesome presentation on the Future of VB. The presentation&...

Community Interview with Paul Vick (Beth Massi)

October 6, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 10/6/08
Beth Massi
One of our Italian Visual Basic MVPs, Alessandro Del Sole, sent over some interview questions for the Visual Basic Team members to get our thoughts on the language and favorite features but mostly to share some of our personal interests to help you get to know us better. I also learned some fun facts about the team as well! Alessandro is also ...

Where is the VB Team going to be over the next few months? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 28, 2008 Sep 28, 2008 09/28/08
Beth Massi
We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-)  October 6-7, 2008 Software Development Conference 2008: http://www.sdc.nl/ Beth Massi October 8-10, 2008TechEd Hong Kong: http://www.microsoft.com/hk...

"Future Directions of Visual Basic": Don't miss this talk at the Professional Developers Conference! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 19, 2008 Sep 19, 2008 09/19/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is coming up next month, October 27-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The conference will focus on the future of the Microsoft platform. Here is the website for more information: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/At this future-looking conference, we will be giving a talk on the ...

Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Released (Beth Massi)

October 19, 2007 Oct 19, 2007 10/19/07
Beth Massi
The Beta 2 version of the Visual Basic Language specification has been released onto the download center. This language specification corresponds to the version of Visual Basic that will ship in Visual Studio 2008. The spec covers the following major new features:• Friend assemblies (InternalsVisibleTo)• Relaxed delegates&...

Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
VBTeam
Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM's face on that landing page -- he's so happy the Beta is done.) What’s inside? So much that there might be more new features than we released in Beta1, but who’s ...