May 2007 - Posts

Bill & Steve (Jobs!) reminisce about floating point BASIC
31 May 07 10:07 AM

Another entry in the annals of BASIC history today…. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sat down for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital for the D5 conference. One of the highlights of the video is recalling the agreement Apple Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Visual Basic History

Closures in VB Part 3: Scope
25 May 07 02:03 PM

Jared here again. For previous articles in this series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Thus far in the series we've only lifted variables that are declared in the same block/scope. What happens if we lift variables in different scope? Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons

Error correction (Matt Gertz)
21 May 07 11:42 AM

It’s funny how we come up with a VB feature sometimes. I remember one case pretty well. I was the new dev lead of the VB editor at the time, and I was talking about possible features for “Whidbey” (i.e. Visual Studio 2005) with my program manager, Sam. Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005

Visual Basic & Smart Devices (Matt Gertz)
14 May 07 11:46 AM

Last week I talked a bit about operator overloading, and used the concept to support a library of matrix functions. This week, we’ll use those functions in a Smart Device application to create a matrix calculator. Smart Device applications It’s extremely Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005, Smart Devices

Attachment(s):Matrices.zip

Visual Basic Forms over Data "How-to" video series (Beth Massi)
08 May 07 12:02 PM

Friday we posted the first 8 videos of the Visual Basic Forms over Data "How-to" video series on MSDN. If you don't have the Visual Basic Dev Center as your homepage you might have missed the headline. ;-) This how-to video series is dedicated to getting Read More...

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Filed under: VB2005, Beth Massi

AmandaS' LINQ talk at VSLive Orlando
07 May 07 10:21 PM

I escaped from Redmond this week to present at VSLive Orlando on LINQ in Visual Studio Orcas. As promised, please find the slides and demos included as an attachment below. As mentioned during the talk – that was intended to be an overview. If you want Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB_Express, Extension_Methods

Attachment(s):2007.zip

Operator Overloading: A demonstration using matrices (Matt Gertz)
07 May 07 10:51 AM

Over a decade ago, before I joined Microsoft, I was a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon studying robotics. One of the things that you had to do to get into the doctoral program was pass a qualifier test (“the qual”), which was a three-hour oral examination Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005

Attachment(s):Matrices.zip

Closures in VB Part 2: Method Calls
03 May 07 04:22 PM

For previous articles in this series, please see Part 1 - The basics Jared here again. This part of the series will focus on how method calls are handled in closures. As stated in the previous article, the purpose of closures is to allow all operations Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons

Closures in VB: Part 1
02 May 07 08:53 PM

My name is Jared Parsons and I am a developer on the VB Compiler and Debugger. One of the features I implemented for VB 9.0 is lexical closure support. This a great addition to the VB language and I wanted to do a series of blog posts to describe this Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Jared Parsons

Just Released - Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0!
02 May 07 02:40 PM

Today we launched the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 , which makes it easier than ever to upgrade VB6 applications to .NET. This new release builds on version 1.0 by adding support for the following features: Interop UserControls - These are .NET controls Read More...

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Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Four dynamic languages for .NET interoperating!
02 May 07 11:06 AM

John Lam just posted a screen cast of four dynamic languages interoperating in SIlverlight on the Mac! Check it out! Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, DLR, Silverlight

VB On Silverlight
01 May 07 01:32 PM

One of the great things about being on the VB team is that we’re generally in the loop early and often with teams developing new technologies and products. It’s always exciting to see ideas take shape, evolve into a product, and eventually hit the market—often Read More...

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Filed under: Joe Binder, LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Silverlight