Category: VB

I recently did a talk at DevLink that covered the language enhancements in VB 9.0 and C# 3.0 that support LINQ.  I was looking around Channel 9 last night and I noticed that Beth Massi and Johnathan Aneja from the VB team had a video covering the same material. It only covers VB, but almost… Continue reading How LINQ Works in Visual Basic 9.0 →

Thanks to all of you who came out to DevTeach and cudos to the organizers for running a great event. I hope to see you in Montreal in December. You can download the slides and demos I used in my sessions by clicking the links below. Introduction to Windows Communication FoundationWindows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s next… Continue reading DevTeach Toronto Session Materials →

The spring conference season keeps on chugging along. The MVP Summit and DevTeach just finished and TechEd is just around the corner. It will be interesting to see what effect splitting the conference into a developer week and an IT Pro week will have. I’ve been spending a lot of time with SharePoint lately and that’s a… Continue reading TechEd Developer 2008 →

While I was in Vegas for Un-Mix 08, I sat down with Derek Hatchard to record a show for Devcasting. About a week later Derek decided to repave his machine but unfortunately, he forgot to backup the recording of the interview. We got together over Skype to re-record a couple weeks ago. What started out… Continue reading Talking WCF on Devcasting →

If you’re not familiar with the concept, a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion lead by a moderator who is not a Microsoft employee. The sessions are not presentations, there are no projectors. Unlike the Keynotes and Breakout sessions which are mostly one to many communication, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are many to many communication and… Continue reading TechEd BOF Session: Strategies for Moving Your Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET →

I’ll be doing my first webcast tomorrow with Beth Massi on VB 6.0 to .NET integration and migration. Visual Basic (VB) 6 was used by millions of developers world-wide to build applications ranging from thousands to millions of lines of code representing significant organizational investments. The path from VB 6 to .NET has not always… Continue reading Webcast: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET →

The VB Team has added about 50 “How Do I” videos to the VB Developer Center. The topics include Forms over Data, Windows Development, Office Development, Security, and so on. Most of the videos are 20 minutes or less so there a great way to get up to speed on a topic really quickly. You can… Continue reading "How Do I" Videos on the VB Developer Center →

Quite regularly, when I’m speaking at a conference or teaching a course, I’ll have someone come up and ask me about the refactoring tool I used during a demo. It’s not that well known but just before Visual Studio 2005 was released, Microsoft partnered with Developer Express to provide a FREE refactoring add-in for anyone with a license… Continue reading Refactoring in Visual Basic 2005 and 2008 →

Don Box hints that it may be so. http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2007/11/10/49001.aspx