A group blog from members of the VB team
November 29, 2010Nov 29, 201011/29/10With the release of Windows Phone Developer Tools in September, and the availability of Windows Phone 7 devices in stores, the Windows Phone platform is growing. Today marks another milestone in the progression of Windows Phone. Today we are announcing Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools –
November 3, 2010Nov 3, 201011/3/10Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience team, describes the changes to the Microsoft Help Viewer planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. He demonstrates the new functionality of the viewer in an early build of Help Viewer 1.1.
See Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
You can learn more in The Story of Help in Visual Studio 2010
September 23, 2010Sep 23, 201009/23/10Today we announced availability of the Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. You can download the release here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201859
This CTP is to be used with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, in order to do Windows Phone 7 development with Visual Basic.
June 22, 2010Jun 22, 201006/22/10I’m back with Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB compiler team, shows us the ins and outs of how multi-targeting works in Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2010 in this Channel 9 interview:
Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010
What’s tricky in Visual Studio 2010 is that there are now two supported versions of the CLR.
June 11, 2010Jun 11, 201006/11/10Visual Studio 2010 has a new feature, Embed Interop Types, that can simplify application deployment and solve those pesky issues that can arise when using COM Interop and Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs). If you’ve ever had to ship multiple versions of an application that automates Microsoft Office where the only difference between your published versions is the version of the PIA (to match different Office versions),
June 9, 2010Jun 9, 201006/9/10A common problem that one often runs into with XML literals and the LINQ to XML API is duplicate XML namespaces. Consider the following example. The code imports a default XML namespace – “hello”.
Code: Imports <xmlns=“hello“>
Module Module1 Sub Main()
June 7, 2010Jun 7, 201006/7/10VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 7: Enumerating Large XML Files (Doug Rothaus)
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these XML cookbook entries. Here’s some info on a common problem: Really big XML files.
I’m going to show you two things in this recipe.
May 3, 2010May 3, 201005/3/10I’ve written about collection initializers on my blog before, but I thought I’d catch up with the VB Team to tell me more about how they really work.
In this interview Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB Compiler team, shows us a couple of new language features: Array and Collection Initializers.
April 15, 2010Apr 15, 201004/15/10It was a very exciting time this week, with the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. On April 12th, 5 launch events took place around the world in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore, London and Las Vegas. The video from Bob Muglia’s VS 2010 Launch keynote is now available on-demand.
April 8, 2010Apr 8, 201004/8/10Crystal Reports has been a part of Visual Basic since 1993, and a part of Visual Studio since its first release in 2002. Crystal Reports has been a very successful component of these products. With the release of Visual Studio 2010,
