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Visual Basic at TechEd SouthEast Asia (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 3, 2008 Sep 3, 2008 09/3/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea Here are some direct links to the materials: TLA 314 - Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks TLA 323 - Best Practices for the VB9.0 and ...

Visual Basic at TechEd South Africa 2008 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I've created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session abstracts, powerpoints, and solutions. That resource page is available here: ...

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)

August 28, 2008 Aug 28, 2008 08/28/08
VBTeam
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in.  In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project. How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (image) This video is based on the topic: How to: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks, ...

Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)

August 22, 2008 Aug 22, 2008 08/22/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. New Editor Features in Visual Studio ...

VB 2008 Language Deep Dive – Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)

August 21, 2008 Aug 21, 2008 08/21/08
VBTeam
Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008.  It was great to see so much excitement around LINQ and especially XML Literals!   The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; here’s the session abstract (with links inserted so you can find ...

Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)

August 15, 2008 Aug 15, 2008 08/15/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element or namespace and select "Show in XML Schema Explorer" in Visual Basic programs. It's a nice ...

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08
Beth Massi
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded ...

Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA.  In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels.  (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be written in WinForms as well with just a little bit of extra ...

Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State?  On the one hand, biology was something I’d always really loved, having even intended to go to med school at one point.&...

Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word (Beth Massi)

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
Beth Massi
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole. The article shows how to use Visual Studio 2008 to create an add-in for Word 2007 that will read your ...