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Visual Basic 2005 is now available!

Today is the official launch day of the new version of Visual Basic: This page links to the relevant information (how to get it, what's new, etc)http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ You can also downloa...

VB IDE Blog finds a new home - Please Update Your Subscriptions!

Hi all, As of today, we are moving this blog to a new location.  We've decided to merge our blogging efforts with the rest of the VB team, and thus are moving our posts to the VB Team blog....

Missing the Navigate Forward and Navigate Backward commands on your Toolbar?

Visual Studio has more toolbars and commands than any one person will likely need to use. That is why we ship a variety of development settings: so that you can select the developer profile mo...

Missing the Navigate Forward and Navigate Backward commands on your Toolbar

Visual Studio has more toolbars and commands than any one person will likely need to use. That is why we ship a variety of development settings: so that you can select the developer profile mo...

Code Snippets on Channel9

Hi all, Ken Levy and I created a Channel9 video, which demonstrates the Code Snippets feature in VS2005.  Click here to check out the 38min show. I've also blogged about this on the vbteam blog,...

Need to create a new file without opening a project?

This request has been raised lately by folks working with XML, who want to create XML files without using a project.  If a project is already open, then you can easily create a ne...

Need to create a new file without opening a project

This request has been raised lately by folks working with XML, who want to create XML files without using a project.  If a project is already open, then you can easily create a ne...

Working with Shortcut Keys

For those of you using the Visual Basic Development Settings, your keyboard scheme is set to Visual Basic 6 by default.  You can verify this by checking the setting in Tools->Options...

Talking about the Future: LINQ, Atlas, and VSTA at the PDC

Last week in Los Angeles (Sept13-16), Microsoft hosted PDC05 the11th Professional Developers Conference. The PDC is a conference to educate, inform and excite the developer community a...

Want to Customize your menus in Visual Studio 2005? Here's how...

This post was inspired by an MSDN Ladybug.  However, it exposes a cool trick that you all might want to try! Consider the case that you want to make the Command Window item appear in th...

Want to Customize your menus in Visual Studio 2005 Here's how...

This post was inspired by an MSDN Ladybug.  However, it exposes a cool trick that you all might want to try! Consider the case that you want to make the Command Window item appear in th...

Interested in Learning More About the Visual Studio Debugger?

Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday, July 28th, at 1pm (PST).  We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger.  You can bring you...

Interested in Learning More About the Visual Studio Debugger

Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday, July 28th, at 1pm (PST).  We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger.  You can bring you...

Have a Question about Code Snippets? Try this FAQ!

Try our list of Frequently Asked Questions below to answer questions that you might have about code snippets. Don't see the one you need?  Then add a comment to this blog or post to the Visu...

Have a Question about Code Snippets Try this FAQ!

Try our list of Frequently Asked Questions below to answer questions that you might have about code snippets. Don't see the one you need  Then add a comment to this blog or post to the Visua...

Visual Basic IDE Tips & Tricks... Cool Ways to Insert a Snippet into Your Code

This post has been moved to the following location:   http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/07/did-you-know-there-are-many-ways-to-insert-a-snippet-into-your-code-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx...

Visual Basic IDE Tips & Tricks... Cool Ways to Insert a Snippet into Your Code

  Hi there,   I'd like to start using his blog for more tips & tricks.  You should be able to take away a new tip from each post to try out on your own.  Let us ...

Code Generation for Overrides in Visual Basic .Net 2005

Some subtle changes were made in Visual Basic .Net 2005 to make code generation of overidden methods a little easier.  In Visual Basic .Net 2003 and earlier, you used the code dropdowns as in Fig...

Refactoring Tool in VB Editor

Refactoring in Visual Basic 2005 In case you havent already heard, last Thursday (4/21) we announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005, a free version of Developer Express Inc.s Refa...

Snippet Editor to Create Visual Basic Snippets

Create your own Code Snippets with the Visual Basic Snippet Editor Yesterday we posted the Visual Basic Snippet Editor, with source code, on http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vbsnippeteditor.  The ...

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