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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 ...

Amanda Silver will be Presenting VB and Silverlight on Second Life! (Beth Massi)

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Beth Massi
(image) If you haven't seen or experienced Second Life it's pretty amazing. It's an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world's live presentation theater! Amanda Silver will be presenting Visual Basic on Silverlight tomorrow, July 31st ...

What is the difference between VB 9, VBx and Silverlight? (Scott Wisniewski)

June 7, 2007 Jun 7, 2007 06/7/07
VBTeam
I recently received an email from a customer asking for clarification as to what the difference was between VB 9, VBx and Sliverlight. In particular, it seems as if we have been releasing so much information about cool new stuff that at least a few people have become confused, making them a bit nervous about the future of VB. The customer had ...

VB On Silverlight

May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007 05/1/07
VBTeam
  One of the great things about being on the VB team is that we’re generally in the loop early and often with teams developing new technologies and products. It’s always exciting to see ideas take shape, evolve into a product, and eventually hit the market—often after four or five code names, a couple of tech previews, and a few ...

What do the announcements at Mix mean for the Visual Basic developer?

May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007 05/1/07
VBTeam
At the Mix conference today in Las Vegas, Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie were dropping goodies like tootsie pops from a piñata. There was so much packed into their over two hour keynote that I thought it would be useful to distill the announcements down into one bite-sized post that should make for a pretty quick read (but unfortunately, ...

So, you're going to Mix?

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07
VBTeam
Now that Orcas Beta1 is on your machines, we’re trying to finish up the Beta2 version of Orcas to deliver those features you are so eagerly awaiting – features like Group By, explicit Joins, Nullable, keyword Intellisense, and Lambda Expressions. Things are looking very good as you probably witnessed in Kit’s web cast just the other day...