Visual Studio Team Interviews

Jim Duffy, Visual Basic MVP, is one of the funniest people I know. At the MVP summit I grabbed him for a quick interview on how he uses Visual Basic and his favorite features, but what I didn't realize is how many smart a$$ answers I would get from him. I got him back though -- just take a look at…

I'm back at the loud brewery with Visual Basic MVP, Rob Windsor, chatting about how he got started with Visual Basic, how his applications evolved over the years, and some of the coolest applications he's built. You can hear the beer glasses clinking around at this MVP party but I think I…

Who’s the “typical VB.NET developer”? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. We decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they’re building, what technologies they’re using, and what their…

In this interview I sat down for coffee with Nick Landry, Windows Mobile Device Application Development MVP (that's a mouthful of title) and chatted with him about how he's used Visual Basic over the years and why he loves it. Nick likes to talk and has some great stories . It was a fun trip…

In this interview I meet up with Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP, at the convention center during the MVP Summit and he tells me about the interesting applications he's built over the 30 years (!) he's been programming with some form of Basic. He also chats about the larger applications and teams…

In this interview I chat with Bill Vaughn, Visual Basic MVP and super-SQL-data-dude, over beer at a loud brewery about his experiences using Visual Basic over the years. Check out Bill's MVP bio and blog.  Post your own story and/or comment with your own experiences for the VB Team…

Stan Schultes, Visual Basic MVP, is super-passionate about Visual Basic and in this interview he describes how he got started in the industry and the manufacturing applications he builds today. I'm glad I caught up with him at the MVP summit, Stan sure had a lot of good things to say. Check out…

While at one of the MVP summit parties I grabbed Julie Lerman, Visual Basic MVP and Entity Framework expert, and asked her about her experiences using Visual Basic to build applications for her customers. It was a fun, loud party (like most MVP summit parties) but we managed . Check out…

In this in interview Jonathan Aneja, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic team, shows us how the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 helps you migrate your existing VB 6 applications one form at a time to .NET. He gives us insight on how we can write .NET user controls and forms to take advantage of the…

In this in interview Scott Wisniewski, a Developer on the Visual Basic Team, talks about Extension Methods and shows us a couple interesting LINQ providers. In his own unique way, Scott dives into the meaning of Extension Methods and how they can extend types with discoverable methods which are…