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New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry (Beth Massi)

January 6, 2009 Jan 6, 2009 01/6/09
Beth Massi
Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here. The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the editing of that data by users in the controls. Check out all the WPF Forms over Data videos ...

Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)

December 27, 2008 Dec 27, 2008 12/27/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa.  She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her.  However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me.  (For those not steeped in American traditions, to “go with” a girl or boy in ...

M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)I have a slight problem with my cell phone.  It’s a smartphone; I love it, I use it all the time, and I don’t what I’d do without it, but I’ve been pretty aggravated with its support of Bluetooth.  It will fail to pair with the Sync system in the car at random times, which drives ...

Did you know? You can unwind the call stack from exceptions (Bill Horst)

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08
VBTeam
The ability to unwind the call stack from exceptions is one of the debugger features that was newly introduced in Visual Basic.NET 2005. When the debugger hits a first-chance exception, you can unwind the call stack in order to make code edits to fix the exception and continue debugging with the changes. The exception assistant UI will have an...

Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 25, 2008 Nov 25, 2008 11/25/08
Beth Massi
Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called XML Literals, which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much easier that many C# developers are moving to VB.Net for their XML work! To learn more...

Tutorial: Functional Programming with Visual Basic 9.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 24, 2008 Nov 24, 2008 11/24/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Using Visual Basic, and thinking about Functional Programming? Here's an excerpt from Eric White's blog, explaining why you should: Functional Programming (FP) has the potential to reduce program line count by 20% to 50%, reduce bugs and increase robustness, and move us in the direction of taking advantage of multiple core ...

TechEd Barcelona: Session Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 10, 2008 Nov 10, 2008 11/10/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I'm here at TechEd Barcelona, and the week has gotten off to a great start. Jason Zander did the keynote this afternoon, and announced lots of great tooling support that will be included in Visual Studio 2010! Exciting stuff.I have 4 sessions here, starting tomorrow. I've attached the materials at the end of this post, in case ...