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Save Time – Use Keyboard Shortcuts! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 24, 2007 Apr 24, 2007 04/24/07
Lisa Feigenbaum
Visual Studio is all about developer productivity. To help developers be more efficient, Visual Studio has built keyboard shortcuts into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface – just like CTRL-C for copy.   To help you take advantage of these shortcuts, we’ve created posters that ...

Want to see the VB 2005 IDE in action? Check out this video!

November 8, 2005 Nov 8, 2005 11/8/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
Here's a great Channel 9 video with Program Manager Jay Schmelzer, that demonstrates a number of the VB 2005 IDE features mentioned below.  In his 40 min interview with Ken Levy, Jay talks about what it's like to work on the VB team, shows how to use the IDE to make you most productive, and exposes a few cool tricks that most ...

Visual Studio 2005 IDE: Top Ten Feature List (by LisaFeig)

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
For our first VB IDE post on the VB team blog, I’d like to give you my list of the top 10 new features in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.  Now that the product has been released, you can take advantage of these today!1. Edit and ContinueYou are again able to make changes to your code while debugging, back up the code instruction pointer...

The VB IDE team joins the VB Team blog (by LisaFeig)

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
  Hi.  My name is Lisa Feigenbaum and I am a program manager on the VB IDE.  The VB IDE feature team (including testers, developers, and program managers) has been hosting a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide.  However, we have decided to merge our efforts with the rest of the VB team and transfer our blog here instead.&...

Code Snippets on Channel9 – Ken Levy and Lisa Feigenbaum

October 19, 2005 Oct 19, 2005 10/19/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
We’ve posted a new video on Channel9 about Code Snippets in VS2005.  Click here to check out the 38min show. Here are some of the exciting topics that you can look forward to hearing about:  ·      What code snippets are and why they were created in VB 2005.·      ...

Check out the new VB IDE blog!

April 21, 2005 Apr 21, 2005 04/21/05
Lisa Feigenbaum
We've started a new blog on the Visual Basic IDE.  The address is http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide.  Check it out, and let us know what you think!Thanks,Lisa FeigenbaumVisual Basic Program Manager...