Visual Basic

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…

We're going to do a two-fer today. Our first Hardware Friday post is a quick notice from Chris Walker about one of the blog's favorite frameworks, the .Net Micro Framework, on one of the blog's favorite hardware platforms, the Netduino... Announcing: .NET MF 4.2 upgrade for all Netduino hardwareI'm…

I'm not sure if today counts as a "hardware" project, but I thought it cool and something we've not highlighted before and is hardware'ish, so... Lucian shows us UPnP for Windows 8, how we might use it and generally helps us understand it by writing code for it... UPnP code for Windows…

Today's WinForm Wednesday project is one that's kind of unusual. I don't highlight Visual Studio Project Templates often, but this one struck a cord with me for some reason. Maybe because we just don't hear much about WinForm these days. Or maybe because it's a Visual Basic template. Or maybe…

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library) Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect For Windows)The Kinect For Windows SDK…

Want some more fun coding battling bots? Want to take it to the next level and have tournaments of battling bots? Want to code your bots in C#, VB.Net or C++? Be able to easily edit maps? Have a built in code editor? Watch the battles in 2D or 3D? And have the source for it all? Marvin's…

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…

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…

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.…

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…