Beth Massi's Channel9 Interviews of team members working on Visual Studio, showing off their favorite features. For more business application developer content check out the VSTO and VB Developer Centers, the VSTO Team and VB Team blogs, and of course my blog!
I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group
of really smart people lead by Paul…
In this interview Bill Horst, a member of the Visual Basic QA team, shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He shows us how the new Option Infer works and how various types are inferred by the
compiler without having to…
In this interview I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the
Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates and he sets me straight on how ClickOnce deployment and
application…
In this quick interview I grabbed Alessandro Del Sole, Visual Basic MVP, outside the convention center downtown and asked him why he's so passionate about Visual Basic. Check out
Alessandro on the Dev Center.
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In this in interview Young Joo, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, talks about LINQ to SQL and the new O/R Designer in Visual Studio 2008. He demos a typical business client-server scenario and shows how LINQ to SQL classes make it much
easier to work with relational data in SQL Server…
In this interview,
Amanda Silver, a Lead Program Manager on the
Visual Basic Team, demonstrates new LINQ syntax around Joins and Aggregates that is now available in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Amanda is a guru of LINQ in Visual Basic and gives insightful explanations of how to use this new…
In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Saaid shows us the WSP Import Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 that allows developers to take SharePoint Solution packages
developed with SharePoint Designer and bring…
In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing tools for SharePoint development. Mike gives us a great introduction and overview of these tools from the Visual Studio Developer perspective.Mike shows us how easy it is to build,…
In this interview,
Tyler Whitney, a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team, demonstrates how line termination has changed in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation indicators. This makes your code more readable especially when
writing multi-line…
At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked me if he could interview
Milind Lele himself to get the low-down -- I said sure!
Milind is a Program Manager on the Visual…