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Just Released – Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0!

May 2, 2007 May 2, 2007 05/2/07
VBTeam
Today we launched the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0, which makes it easier than ever to upgrade VB6 applications to .NET.  This new release builds on version 1.0 by adding support for the following features: In the picture below you can see we've got a VB6 Form hosting a .NET UserControl which contains a MenuStrip and a ToolStrip. ...

Working with Shortcut Keys (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07
Lisa Feigenbaum
Since we have so many Orcas posts going up on this blog, I've decided to continue with a few that you can use TODAY in Visual Studio 2005.  This one is about working with shortcut keys...For those of you using the Visual Basic Development Settings, your keyboard scheme is set to Visual Basic 6 by default.  ...

Save Time – Use Keyboard Shortcuts! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 24, 2007 Apr 24, 2007 04/24/07
Lisa Feigenbaum
Visual Studio is all about developer productivity. To help developers be more efficient, Visual Studio has built keyboard shortcuts into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface – just like CTRL-C for copy.   To help you take advantage of these shortcuts, we’ve created posters that ...

Controls on the fly (Matt Gertz)

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Controls on the fly (Matt Gertz) So last week, I posted up a simple “Maze” game, in which you navigate through a virtual environment similar to the old “Myst” game.  The way I’d coded it, though, it didn’t actually have any “game” to it – you just walked around.  In this post I’ll add some state to it (which, ...

Simple Animation in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Simple Animation in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz) The basics: You're almost certainly used to placing controls on a form; however, you probably have an expectation that they will stay in place once you put them there.  That need not be the case, however.  Controls have X & Y positions, and you can modify them at any time during the ...

Visual Basic "Soup-to-Nuts" Webcast Series

March 27, 2007 Mar 27, 2007 03/27/07
Beth Massi
This webcast series is devoted to those who want to learn to really use Visual Basic and what it can do! Learn from Ron Cundiff, Developer Evangelist and featured Microsoft speaker. This is a 20+ part series that's underway. Check out the on demand recordings and sign up for the live webcasts here.-Beth Massi, Program Manager VS Core ...