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AmandaS' LINQ talk at VSLive Orlando

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07
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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 really want to understand the nitty-gritty details behind what make LINQ possible, be ...

Working with Shortcut Keys (Lisa Feigenbaum)

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07
Lisa Feigenbaum
Since we have so many Orcas posts going up on this blog, I've decided to continue with a few that you can use TODAY in Visual Studio 2005.  This one is about working with shortcut keys...For those of you using the Visual Basic Development Settings, your keyboard scheme is set to Visual Basic 6 by default.  ...

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 ...

Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07
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Woohoo! Its official, we finally got Orcas Beta1 out the door! We’re very excited to get this release out to you so we can finally talk about some of the stuff we’ve been working on in addition to the LINQ and XML feature-set. We believe that Orcas Beta1 displays all of the essential value in the Orcas product but it’s important to keep ...

Visual Basic Express Edition Videos

September 13, 2006 Sep 13, 2006 09/13/06
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by Kathleen McGrath Have you ever wished that you could have someone show you how to accomplish a programming task instead of having to read through the steps on how to perform the task? Or maybe you just need a little more clarification about where a particular option is located. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, so imagine what a...

Beginners coding in ASP.NET

July 11, 2005 Jul 11, 2005 07/11/05
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posted by Emily Yaich Hello everyone!  I am Emily Yaich and I am another one of the Microsoft Explorers working on the visual basic team.  I have been here since the second week in June, and I am loving every minute of it!  We haven't gotten into the heavy coding and testing of our app yet, which will be a challenge, but I ...