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Ask Kathleen: Working with MEF (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 5, 2009 May 5, 2009 05/5/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
MEF stands for Managed Extensibility Framework. MEF is a new .NET library that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can be dynamically composed. Kathleen has a great article on MEF in last month's edition of Visual Studio Magazine. She explains what it is, how to use it, and outlines the ...

CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum

May 3, 2009 May 3, 2009 05/3/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
I recently recorded a CodeCast interview with Ken Levy. We discussed the VS2010 Editor, VB.NET line continuation removal, interop with dynamic languages, the Microsoft languages strategy, and the upcoming VS2010 Beta1 release. Recording: CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a...

Luca Bolognese on Asynchronous HTML caching in VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 29, 2009 Apr 29, 2009 04/29/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
You may know Luca Bolognese from his well-known work on C# LINQ. Luca is now the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. You can check out his blog here. Luca recently blogged his first VB.NET post. It is about asynchronous HTML caching, and is part of a longer series in which he is converting a financial VBA Excel add-in to .NET. The ...

Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 15, 2009 Mar 15, 2009 03/15/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techdays I've included the direct links below as well. Future Directions for Visual...

Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

February 22, 2009 Feb 22, 2009 02/22/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Check out the latest video in the 10-4 Channel 9 series, on Visual Basic 10: (image) Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 In this ninth episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to ...

10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 29, 2008 Dec 29, 2008 12/29/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
It's a new week, and the 10-4 video podcast series continues! The topics for this week include an overview of VS 2010, and a special focus on the Start Page. Here's a description of the episode, from the creators:10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual ...

Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 25, 2008 Dec 25, 2008 12/25/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team has announced 10-4, a new video podcast. 10-4 will feature different capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week! To get the episodes, visit the show's new home on Channel9:  https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/ There you will also have the option to ...