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As developers start to realize the full potential of Microsoft Kinect and new hardware is made available for the PC it’s really great to see the Kinect team provide some sample support for VB de...
If you’ve held off trying Visual Studio 11 Beta because your .NET 4 or Silverlight 5 app uses the Async CTP, your wait is over!
Today we’ve published the Async Targeting Pack for Visu...
As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download. This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full plat...
For all those who have started venturing into developing windows phone applications, there are quite a few samples utilizing Silverlight, but the XNA content has been a little bit light. &n...
Touch screen are great and we’ve seen their use on phone and slates but sometimes these screens still just are not big enough. For those who desire bigger touch screens, ...
Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP. I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try.
To recap ...
For development of windows phone applications a new feature was added to the Visual Basic compiler known as VB Core. This is a reduced version of the runtime designed to allow development for a broade...
Imagine this. It’s Halloween. You’ve got a costume party to go to at 7 but there’s one small hiccup – you’ve got no costume. As a VB programmer you’re used to comin...
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October 2006 –VB Architect-emeritus Paul Vick responds via his blog to question by some co...
There’s a new feature coming to VB, and already included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. The feature is called Namespace Global and it’ll make your life easier…
if you p...
Default: CTRL + ALT + K
Menu: View | Call Hierarchy
Command: View.CallHierarchy; EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ViewCallHierarchy
Versions: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
Languages: VB
With ...
An update to the training kit has been made providing Visual Basic developers with sample code for the development features of Dynamics CRM and help them build applications using Microsoft Dynamics CR...
For those VB developers who are developing (or keen to start developing) for WIndows Phone 7. The samples have been updated and as you'll notice virtually all of them are in both C# and VB.
http...
Some great new video's on MSDN showing how to do async programming using the Async CTP.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh378091.aspx
There are different versions of video's for both VB and C#...
Introduction
As a bit of a geek, I like to tinker with basic gadgets. I often think of little ideas that would be great to implement but the device involves some hardware and very little softw...
Today, Microsoft announced the Kinnect SDK for PC
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx
VB Samples are there at launch and available...
The release of .NET Micro framework v4.2 Beta brings Visual Basic support for the .NET Micro-framework.
For those that have not heard of the Micro framework before
“The...
With the release of the Mango Toolset, Visual Basic support for XNA and Windows Phone has now been added. VB resources include VB XNA documentation and VB WP7 code samples and starter kits a...
Twenty years ago, May 20th, 1991 at Windows World, in Atlanta, Microsoft founder Bill Gates demoed Visual Basic 1.0. Twenty years later, the 10th version of this latest in an unbroken line of Microsof...
The new Async feature in the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) provides an elegantly simple technique to make code asynchronous.
Our writing team uses an internal app that would benefit from async...
Hi, all!
It's been a while since I've posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then. Though I've been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off l...
Microsoft WebMatrix is an exciting new product that makes the creation of custom ASP.NET Web sites possible without all the complexity of the full Visual Studio environment. Another advantage of Micro...
I am back with details on how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight. In this walkthrough, we will see how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls to create a Data-Driven Silverlight I...
In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing ASP.NET/jQuery application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight.
Here are some to...
In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing Windows Forms application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight. Also in the proces...
Asynchronous programming has been around for awhile in Visual Studio. The new Async CTP feature, with the Await statement, provides a simpler, more organized code pattern than existing alternati...
What is asynchronous programming?
Let's say you send out an email, then wait and do nothing for the two minutes it takes to get a response back. You do nothing while you're waiting. It's w...
A picture is worth ten thousand words. Whereas a moving picture is worth a hundred thousand words! Moving picture or an animation has more visual appeal. We can understand concepts better when explain...
Previously, I explained how to create a panorama and pivot effect for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create an accelerometer for Windows Phone 7. An...
Previously, I explained how to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a panorama and pivot effect in Wi...
In our last post, I explained how to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows...
I have experienced lot of fun creating Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic and writing about them here. In our last post, I explained how to create a Bing Maps application for Windows Phone 7...
In our previous post, I explained how to create an application bar for Windows Phone 7. Bing Maps is one of the applications that is commonly used on phones these days. In this blog post, I want to sh...
In our last post, I explained how to create a custom tilt effect application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create an application bar for Window...
In our last post, I explained how to implement a model-view-viewmodel pattern in a Windows Phone application. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a control tilt ef...
In our last post, I explained how to create a custom indeterminate progress bar application for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to implement a model-view-vie...
In our last post, I explained how to create a microphone for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a custom indeterminate progress bar for Windows Phone ...
In our last post, I explained how to create a mini browser for Windows Phone 7. In this blog, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a microphone application for Windows Phone 7. This a...
I have experienced a lot of fun writing Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Basic. Web browser is one of the applications that are commonly used on phones these days. In this blog, I want to share ...
While most servicing releases do not include new functionality, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 introduced an important new compiler feature that enables Visual Basic to target new platforms that were not prev...
One of the top requests we hear from the Visual Basic community is for more code examples. Microsoft is committed to making all of our technologies equally accessible from both VB & C#, as part of...
If you’re looking for ways to get started with Entity Framework 4.0 in Visual Basic then be sure to check out this month’s issue of CODE Magazine. In it the Entity Framework team has...
With 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 p...
Paul ORear, 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...
We're very happy to announce today the Async CTP for Visual Basic and C#.
Async CTP homepage: http://msdn.com/vstudio/async
Installer: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=203690
Async discussion f...
Today 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 ...
Im 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: Chann...
Background
We’ve been hearing a lot of good feedback on the recently released update to the Entity Framework in .NET 4. This release marks a significant advancement from the first release t...
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 (P...
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 - hell...
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