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Shell Games (Matt Gertz)
31 October 08 02:22 PM
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship. I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have Read More...
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VB Catch ... When: Why so special?
09 October 08 08:00 AM
The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception. Sub Sub1() Try DoSomeAction() Catch Read More...
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Looking for Setup and Deployment Project Templates? (Mary Lee)
02 October 08 04:34 PM
Let's say that you've developed an application using the free Visual Studio Express Edition. Now, you want to deploy your application to the masses, and you read documentation about How to: Create or Add Deployment Projects . Here's how the topic starts: Read More...
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Building a Zune Playlist (Matt Gertz)
19 September 08 11:11 PM
Well, that was… intense. You may have noticed the lack of articles coming from my direction. I have been so buried in work, and so far behind, that when I look forwards all I see is backwards. I work, I drive home, I work some more, and it all seems to Read More...
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How LINQ to Dataset works in VB (Jonathan Aneja)
14 May 08 04:52 PM
LINQ at its core requires any data source to be queryable , which basically means it must implement IEnumerable. (It’s actually a bit more complicated than that, for a full explanation see section 11.21.2 of the Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Read More...
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New "How Do I" Videos Available on the Visual Basic Developer Center (Beth Massi)
24 March 08 12:07 PM
If you missed it, last week 48 new How Do I videos ( Forms over data , Windows development , Office development and Security ) were added to the Visual Basic Developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. Many thanks to Rob Read More...
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#4 Did you know? What you can do with Debugger Datatips... (Lisa Feigenbaum)
10 January 08 09:30 AM
There's a lot of cool functionality built into VS debugger datatips that often goes unnoticed... For example, did you know that not only can you *see* values in the expanded datatips, but you can also edit them ? Watch the following walk-through... While Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)
19 December 07 08:01 AM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and Read More...
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Higher Algebra with Operator Overloads (Brian Beckman)
19 December 07 08:00 AM
Recently I did a Channel 9 interview with Beth Massi where I walked through a Visual Basic program that used Generics and Operator overloads to perform some higher mathematics. I thought I'd follow up with a post explaining the details of exactly what Read More...
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Euchre Revisited: Fixing bugs and service releases (Matt Gertz)
11 December 07 04:42 PM
It’s really embarrassing when a bug gets out the door in a product. In particular, it’s hard for me to just sit and take it (however well deserved the criticism is) when a Microsoft product gets nailed in the press for a bad error. It’s much worse when Read More...
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Launching External Tools from inside Visual Studio (Jonathan Aneja)
27 November 07 08:08 PM
Visual Studio has a small but extremely useful feature that allows you to hook external tools directly into the IDE’s Tools menu. All you have to do is click Tools->External Tools… and then you can add your own custom menu items that will launch a Read More...
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One is the Loneliest Number (Matt Gertz)
13 November 07 10:09 AM
(This post assumes that you’ve read my previous post on Windows Media at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/10/30/let-the-music-play-matt-gertz.aspx – I will be modifying that code in this post.) After posting my media player blog sample a couple Read More...
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Let the Music Play! (Matt Gertz)
30 October 07 12:05 PM
Oh, boy. Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’ve transitioned to a new job within Visual Studio and have been getting my sea legs there. One of the job tasks is getting Visual Studio 2008 out to you folks, and while I’ve always been involved Read More...
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A Note about Enums (Scott Wisniewski)
15 October 07 02:32 PM
I recently received an email from a customer who had a few questions about "enum inheritance" in VB, specifically as to why it wasn't supported. In particular, he sent us the following snippet of VB code (I've changed the names of the classes and methods Read More...
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Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK Released! (Beth Massi)
17 September 07 04:15 PM
The Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Team released the Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK on Friday! This download provides the SDK samples in Visual Basic and a new wizard that is used for generating Visual Basic-based integration packages Read More...
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