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Visual Basic at MIX ’09 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

February 23, 2009 Feb 23, 2009 02/23/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
For the Visual Basic web developers, be sure to check out MIX this year! The conference will be taking place March 18-20, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/eventsThe list of sessions is posted here. Included in the agenda will be the following Visual Basic session.Making XML Really, Really Easy ...

Visual Basic 10 on the 10-4 Channel9 Series! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

February 22, 2009 Feb 22, 2009 02/22/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Check out the latest video in the 10-4 Channel 9 series, on Visual Basic 10: (image) Episode 9: Visual Basic 10 In this ninth episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to ...

Web-scraping using Visual Basic's XML support

February 20, 2009 Feb 20, 2009 02/20/09
VBTeam
We've just had a fascinating article about using VB's XML literals to produce web pages.I've been interested in the other side of the process: using VB's XML support to scrape web-pages for data. Here's the essential bit of code, which looks for something like <div class="content"><h2>Title</h2> <table><tr&...

Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals (Beth Massi)

February 16, 2009 Feb 16, 2009 02/16/09
Beth Massi
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very ...

An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)

January 23, 2009 Jan 23, 2009 01/23/09
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)!  I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the picture was taken, not when it was scanned.  Furthermore, I have tagged ...

New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry (Beth Massi)

January 6, 2009 Jan 6, 2009 01/6/09
Beth Massi
Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here. The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the editing of that data by users in the controls. Check out all the WPF Forms over Data videos ...

Happy New Year! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy new year. We truly enjoy getting to know you through your comments and emails, so here's an opportunity to say "thanks"! (image)          (image) As we move forward to 2009, I thought...

VB Developer? Read MSDN Magazine? You're in luck! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008 12/31/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
MSDN Magazine Editor in Chief, Howard Dierking, announced a number of changes to the magazine in the January 2009 Editor's Note. Among that list of changes was the following excerpt: "Furthermore, we recently began moving all of our article code samples to MSDN Code Gallery. This will allow our team to be much more agile in managing and ...

10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 29, 2008 Dec 29, 2008 12/29/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
It's a new week, and the 10-4 video podcast series continues! The topics for this week include an overview of VS 2010, and a special focus on the Start Page. Here's a description of the episode, from the creators:10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010In this second episode of 10-4, we’ll take a very high-level look at Visual ...