Visual Basic

So you think you know the VB language? Come put your expertise to the test with this unique set of brainteasers and corner cases, from the unexpected to the downright mysterious…Lucian is the Spec Lead for Microsoft Visual Basic in Redmond, USA. Before that he was a post-doc at the University…

Over at the Visual Basic blog, Matt Gertz has a great post on hidden effects with loops on stuff you may not realize.  He talks about how looping backwards versus forwards depending on the situation will drastically simplify your code or if you're looping and using the array.Count how  the…

Paul Yuknewicz, Lead Program Manager on the Visual Studio team, discusses Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE support options as well as proven techniques, tools and best practices for interoperability and gradual, phased migration to .NET. Read the Official Support Statement on Windows 7, Windows…

In this interview, programming writer, McLean Schofield, demonstrates how to add data-bound WPF controls to an application. You can also learn more in the topic Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio. Kathleen McGrath Visual Studio User Education http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010.  You can also learn more in his Help topic, Statements in Visual Basic. Kathleen McGrath Visual Studio User…

In this interview, Doug Rothaus, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, describes the new auto-implemented properties in Visual Basic 2010. He also demonstrates some of the code examples in his Help topic, Auto-Implemented Properties. Kathleen McGrath Visual…

In this first episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Bill Wolff. Bill is an MVP and is President of the Philly .Net users group. According to Dani, Bill has been involved in community longer than Dani has been coding. Bill's passion for…

"Concurrent Basic extends Visual Basic with stylish asynchronous concurrency constructs derived from the join calculus. Our design advances earlier MSRC work on Polyphonic C#, Comega and the Joins Library. Unlike its C# based predecessors, CB adopts a simple event-like syntax…

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to Multiline Lambdas, Statement Lambdas, Collection Initializers, Array Literals,…

In this interview Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. He shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very…