Visual Basic

Welcome to this series of lessons about the Visual Basic programming language. Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations and tips on how to get the most out of this series, instructs you on where you can download the software you'll need to get started and offers…

In this lesson you'll create a simple application twice -- the first time using Windows Notepad and the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler, then then second time using Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express Edition. The point of this video is to demonstrate how much easier your work becomes by…

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:…

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 demo-heavy video, Lucian shows off a number of new features in Visual Basic 10 including Collection Initializers, better Office integration, inline functions, parallel LINQ, simpler type handling, auto properties, and lots more.

In this interview I meet with the team that brings us the "experience" of coding in Visual Studio, also sometimes referred to as the VS IDE Team. I ask them how their design process works, what the top requested features are for the code editors, how they work with the language…

Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net has created several beginner series for aspiring developers to learn programming languages in Visual Basic, C#, HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript and how to build apps for Windows Phone 7. Each series come with different concepts that are broken into their own…

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…

C# Program Manager Mads Torgersen explains the latest release of Async which includes support for WP7, performance and reliability improvements, support for VS Express editions of C# and VB, a new EULA (as-is) and more. It's always great to chat with Mads. Tune in. Download the latest CTP and…

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…