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Whats New In VB2005 – Some parts of the TechEd demos

July 3, 2006 Jul 3, 2006 07/3/06
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So I cleaned up my teched demos and editted the notes so hopefully, someone other than me (without access to what's inside my head ;-)) can follow along and see some of the cool new things in VB2005. Simply unzip the solution, open it, and remember to START with the demo.vb file in the DemoProject solution! If there's a project you're ...

Generics Patterns and Practices: ideas and suggestions for when to use generics

June 27, 2006 Jun 27, 2006 06/27/06
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So at TechEd-2006, I gave a chalktalk on generics patterns and practices. I've zipped the content up here so folks can check it out if they want. I start by giving a quick background on generics (the GenericsBasics solution attached), then looking for patterns in the framework of where generics might be applied (The Examples project in the ...

VB Curioddities #1: Enum, Enum, my kingdom for an Enum.Parse

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
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Hey folks, my name's Kit George and I've joined the VB team from the CLR. VB is after all, the best language, so of course, it makes sense to work directly on it!Like all languages, VB has it's little 'oddities', so i thought i would start a series to present a few of these. These are little (and perhaps large) curious VB things that you may ...

VB6 Collections: The Missing LINQ

June 19, 2006 Jun 19, 2006 06/19/06
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By Jonathan Aneja   Hi, my name’s Jonathan and I’m a Program Manager on the VB team, working mainly on LINQ features.  One of the things I love about LINQ is it’s not just limited to querying over databases and XML – you can query over any collection of Objects.  For example, let’s say I have a collection of ...

EMEA Tour Followup

April 20, 2006 Apr 20, 2006 04/20/06
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PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin.  Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented.   If you didn't make it to the presentations, check out the below.   Lots of interesting ...

New VB9 Bloggers

March 16, 2006 Mar 16, 2006 03/16/06
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By Amanda Silver  I just wanted to let you know that we’re working furiously on turning the VB9 features into an actual product, understanding how the debugger and editor should support them, and getting another CTP out to you all. Your feedback so far as been invaluable.  Hopefully you’ll see that we’ve ...

NEW VB LINQ CTP: Now live on MSDN!

January 23, 2006 Jan 23, 2006 01/23/06
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By Amanda Silver I’m very excited to announce that the next tech preview of Visual Basic 9.0 which includes support for Language INtegrated Query (codename LINQ) and XML integration atop the XLinq API is now available on the VB Future and the LINQ project websites. This is the result of a ton of hard work for a significant portion ...