VB.NET

LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB. Here we visit Anders Hejlsberg in his office to get more on LINQ. Dan Fernandez, also seen in this video, just put up a blog…

Meet the team that's building security into .NET. This is a video that every developer should watch. In the last third of the video the team gives demos of how to build secure apps.

Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect, and is a consultant with a variety of Microsoft's .NET teams.He's also a popular speaker and trains many people on .NET. Charles Torre sat down with him recently to talk about .NET.

Are you a Visual Basic programmer? You gotta check this video out! It shows off a free refactoring tool for Visual Basic.NET 2005, beta 2. Brad McCabe has the details on his blog. Jay Schmelzer, lead program manager, of the Visual Basic team, and Mark Miller, chief architect at Developer…

Here we have a little surprise, we were walking around with Mick Stanic, founder of the G'day World podcast (a fun geek-oriented podcast done from Australia), and ran into Amanda Silver, program manager on the Visual Basic team. We were setup to talk to Amanda about TechED, but that's all…

Code separation is now done via a feature called partial types. See Amanda demonstrate how that'll help you in your Visual Basic development with the next version of Visual Basic, code-named Whidbey. Here, she demonstrates some of the code separation features in the next version of Visual…

Whidbey is the code name. But, what does Amanda think is really cool in the next version of Visual Basic?

Amanda Silver is a program manager on the Visual Basic team. We wondered what VB 6 programmers needed to know about Visual Basic.NET. We also asked her to tell us the three things that make a great Visual Basic programmer. In a separate video we just uploaded Amanda talks about VB's lineage…

Basic was Microsoft's first product. So, when we met with Amanda Silver, program manager on the Visual Basic team, we thought we'd ask her about that lineage and how it affects her thinking about VB. You'll hear more from Amanda over the next week.

We thought we'd put Paul on the spot and ask him: "Fill in the blank, a great VB programmer does _____." Here's his answer. In another video that we just posted we asked Paul to tell us how to make our Visual Basic applications run faster.