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Announcing Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools

September 23, 2010 Sep 23, 2010 09/23/10
VBTeam
Today we announced availability of the Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools.  You can download the release here: This CTP is to be used with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, in order to do Windows Phone 7 development with Visual Basic. We have heard a lot of customer requests for this capability and are all ...

Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

June 22, 2010 Jun 22, 2010 06/22/10
Beth Massi
I’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 2010What's tricky in Visual Studio 2010 is that there are now two supported ...

Troubleshooting Errors When Embedding Type Information (Doug Rothaus)

June 11, 2010 Jun 11, 2010 06/11/10
VBTeam
Visual 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...

Removing duplicate namespaces in XML Literals (Shyam Namboodiripad)

June 9, 2010 Jun 9, 2010 06/9/10
VBTeam
A 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()         Dim x = <A...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 7: Enumerating Large XML Files (Doug Rothaus)

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
VBTeam
VB 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. The first is a tip on reading very large XML files while still being able to use ...

Visual Basic 2010 is here!

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Lisa Feigenbaum
It 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. The agenda for day was VS 2010 sessions, including ...

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

April 8, 2010 Apr 8, 2010 04/8/10
VBTeam
Crystal 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, SAP and Microsoft have mutually decided to change how we deliver this important component to the .NET developer...