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VB Curioddities #1: Enum, Enum, my kingdom for an Enum.Parse

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
VBTeam
Hey folks, my name's Kit George and I've joined the VB team from the CLR. VB is after all, the best language, so of course, it makes sense to work directly on it!Like all languages, VB has it's little 'oddities', so i thought i would start a series to present a few of these. These are little (and perhaps large) curious VB things that you may ...

EMEA Tour Followup

April 20, 2006 Apr 20, 2006 04/20/06
VBTeam
PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin.  Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented.   If you didn't make it to the presentations, check out the below.   Lots of interesting ...

DTEE is BACK!!! by Kathleen Tamanaha

December 5, 2005 Dec 5, 2005 12/5/05
VBTeam
Running Code at Design Time from the Immediate Window Back in Visual Basic 6.0, developers were able to evaluate expressions from the Immediate Window at design time (we’ll call this feature ‘DTEE’ – Design Time Express Evaluation from now on).  This feature gave the developer an opportunity to test their code...

Explanation of cross-targeting in Visual Studio

November 30, 2005 Nov 30, 2005 11/30/05
VBTeam
By Amanda Silver John Rivard, one of the two tech leads on the Visual Basic team, has entered the blogosphere!   His first post is a doosey – it explains why Visual Studio 8.0 doesn’t cross target (let you target version 1.0 and 1.1 of the CLR and version 2.0.) However, given your feedback that you’d like to take ...

Code Generation for Overrides in Visual Basic .Net 2005

November 23, 2005 Nov 23, 2005 11/23/05
VBTeam
 by Mike CarterSome subtle changes were made in Visual Basic .Net 2005 to make code generation of overidden methods a little easier.  In Visual Basic .Net 2003 and earlier, you used the code dropdowns as in Figure 1 below.(image) Figure 1When overriding a Sub, a declaration stub similar to the following was generated in the ...

2005 Language Spec Live!

November 16, 2005 Nov 16, 2005 11/16/05
VBTeam
    Pleased to announce that the Visual Basic 2005 Language Specification is now live and available here. Also, be sure to check out Ken Levy’s channel9 interview of S. Somasegar, the Vice President of the Developer Division, where he talks about none other than our favorite language – VB.   -Amanda    ...

Edit & Continue – Rude Edits

November 10, 2005 Nov 10, 2005 11/10/05
VBTeam
 by Bill Horst Edit and Continue is a new VB debugging feature which allows the user to make edits to code while the debugger is in "Break Mode" and then to continue debugging with the new edits applied, without having to start execution over again.A Rude Edit is an edit made during "Break Mode" from which the debugger cannot ...

Want to see the VB 2005 IDE in action? Check out this video!

November 8, 2005 Nov 8, 2005 11/8/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
Here's a great Channel 9 video with Program Manager Jay Schmelzer, that demonstrates a number of the VB 2005 IDE features mentioned below.  In his 40 min interview with Ken Levy, Jay talks about what it's like to work on the VB team, shows how to use the IDE to make you most productive, and exposes a few cool tricks that most ...