VB.NET

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…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: User Account Control is the top compatibility hurdle for some applications moving to Windows Vista. It is relatively easy to comply with some elements of UAC (e.g. embedding a manifest in your app) and with Visual Studio 2008 it is even easier as I…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: While we all love focusing on language and framework features, sometimes it is nice to get small aesthetic and usability enhancements. The Visual Studio 2008 IDE has plenty of those as you can see in this video. Related to that, VS2005 does the job…

In this interview Lisa Feigenbaum, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Editor, shows us all the improvements made to the Intellisense support in Visual Basic including keyword and local variable Intellisense, new language feature support, and top customer requests. Although every feature is…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: There is much confusion about what .NET Framework 3.5 is and how it relates to v3.0 and v2.0. In this video I try to explain that and also show you the entire list of the new assemblies with a sentence or two on what each one contains and where they…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: The coolest IMO feature of the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is that it supports the ability to target multiple versions of the .NET Framework, including using the new language features and also taking advantage of all project templates out of the box. In…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In this video I demonstrate the improved cool VB intellisense everywhere and show how it not only increases productivity, but also gives you hints for learning new language features (that are also usable in .NET 2.0 projects). My relevant blog posts…

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…

In this quick TechEd booth demo, Chris Smith, a Developer on the Visual Basic Team, gives us a whirlwind tour of some of the unique features coming in Visual Basic related to XML.