Beth Massi

Visual Studio Team Interviews

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Beth Massi's Channel9 Interviews of team members working on Visual Studio, showing off their favorite features. For more business application developer content check out the VSTO and VB Developer Centers, the VSTO Team and VB Team blogs, and of course my blog!
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Meet the Visual Studio Managed Languages Development Experience Team

Posted By: Beth Massi | Sep 8th @ 10:45 AM
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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 teams as well as what their favorite and hardest features are to build and test. 

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: CSharp, Visual Basic, Visual Studio

New Features for Visual Studio 2008 Office Projects in SP1

Posted By: Beth Massi | Aug 29th @ 12:49 PM
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In this interview, Kris Makey, a Developer on the Office Client team, shows us a couple new features of Office projects in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. First he demonstrates a new error logging feature that will log any end-user install errors to the Event Log making it much easier to tell what went wrong. He also shows us how you can place Winforms controls directly on document surfaces.

For more information on Office Development with Visual Studio visit the developer portal http://msdn.com/vsto and the team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Office Business Applications, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools for Office, VSTO

New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Posted By: Beth Massi | Aug 22nd @ 2:57 PM
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In this short interview, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

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-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
Tags: VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Studio, XAML

XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Posted By: Beth Massi | Aug 15th @ 12:03 PM
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In this interview, Yang Xiao, a tester on the Visual Basic IDE shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element or namespace and select "Show in XML Schema Explorer" in Visual Basic programs. It's a nice way to visually display the structure of your schema sets which makes you even more productive when working with XML in Visual Basic.

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-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
Tags: LINQ to XML, VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Studio

SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1

Posted By: Beth Massi | Aug 8th @ 5:07 PM
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In this interview, Milind Lele, a PM on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team shows us the improvements made to the tooling in Visual Studio SP1 for occasionally connected clients as well as the new data type support for SQL Server 2008. Using SQL 2008 built-in change tracking, you don't need to make modifications to your table schemas like you have to do with SQL 2005. Additionally he shows off a "smarter" DataSet designer where you can have tables coming from server and client data stores all contained within one model.

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-Beth Massi, VS Community
Tags: SQL Server, VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Studio

The P-Invoke Interop Assistant

Posted By: Beth Massi | Jul 28th @ 3:14 PM
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In this interview, Jared Parsons, a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex. The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke signatures and vice versa. Say goodbye to digging through random header files or MSDN documentation to find the right constants, structures and signatures. The P/Invoke Interop Assistant does a smarter translation for you using SAL (Source Code Annotation Language). 
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Tags: C++, Interoperability, VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Basic

Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Posted By: Beth Massi | Jul 23rd @ 3:21 PM
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I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group of really smart people lead by Paul Vick. You can find most of the team members on the Visual Basic Team Blog.

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Tags: VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Basic

Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit

Posted By: Beth Massi | Mar 4th @ 4:00 PM
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In this interview, Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 2008. He also shows us how to deploy a hybrid application built with VB 6 and VB.NET using XCopy deployment and RegFree-COM. The Interop Forms Toolkit, available from the Visual Basic Developer Center, enables you to take a phased migration approach to upgrading your VB 6 applications. Instead of having to do a complete rewrite, you can instead create .NET user controls and forms that can be run from within your current VB 6…[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Interoperability, VB Team, VB.NET, Visual Studio

The New DataRepeater Control in the Latest Power Packs Release

Posted By: Beth Massi | Feb 18th @ 11:41 AM
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In this interview John Hart, QA Lead on the Visual Basic Team, shows us the new DataRepeater control that has just been added to the latest Power Packs release on the Visual Basic Developer Center. Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, and Tools for you to use with Visual Basic to make developing applications even easier.

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Tags: VB Team, VB.NET, Windows Forms

XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense

Posted By: Beth Massi | Jan 17th @ 5:36 PM
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Join me and Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard. Avner shows the differences between how IntelliSense works with axis properties on XDocument and XElement objects and speaks to how the wizard can infer multiple schemas from multiple sources as well as the affect XML namespaces have on IntelliSense. Get started with LINQ to XML in Visual Basic with these How-to Videos. And here are some good articles too. Enjoy,-Beth Massi, VS Community[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: LINQ, VB Team, VB.NET, VS 2008, XML
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