Visual Basic

Abstract: Bart De Smet from the Reactive Extensions team joins Jerry Nixon for today’s episode as they discuss the importance of using Rx and LINQ in their Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they share some background info as well as best practices for .NET developers who want to streamline their code and…

Since the launch of this series Microsoft has released Windows 8 along with new editions of Visual Studio. In this short update video, Bob Tabor explains which versions of Visual Studio 2012 Express you should download and explains the difference between Visual Studio for Windows 8…

Today's "I can't think of a way to make it rhyme with Monday" project by Erdal Halici is frankly pretty awesome. Not only do we get a very cool way to design shapes for our app's, we get to do it in an awesome Visual Studio design experience AND we get the source to everything too. Oh…

Today's Hardware Friday post is one that I help those of you with shiny new .Net Micro Framework devices... .NET Micro Framework ToolboxProject DescriptionThis project is a sub-framework for the .NET Micro Framework that gives support for several electrical components in the form of drivers…

Today's post from PepLluis is a very short quick hit, but I just give VB.Net much love here, so... VB Gadgeteer Webserver, SDK 4.2 QFE2 and Spider Premium Library'sThis is an small sample code to show how to build our basic gadgeteer web server using VB with Spider and the 4.2 RTM Premium library's.…

This is the fourth and final part of the build your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic video series. In this video, you'll learn how to use the File Picker API, how to do data bind properties of a file to controls, and we'll show how to preserve access to a file for later use using…

This is Part 3 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. This is the second video of Part 3: Navigation, layout, and views. In this second video, we'll add an app bar for navigation and we'll add a fluid layout for our page that works in…

This is Part 3 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. Part 3, navigation, layout, and views is divided into two videos. In this first video, we'll show how to navigate between pages, how to use panel controls like the Grid, StackPanel,…

This is Part 2 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. In this video, you'll learn about the app lifecycle and how to save and restore data to roaming settings and to session state. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Part 2…

This is the first of five videos that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. In this video, we'll build a simple Hello world using XAML and Visual Basic. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Part 1 complete code [01:43] Before you start [02:23] Step 1:…