Entries tagged with visual basic - Channel 9

Visual Basic 2010

Pietro Brambati — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:00 GMT

Intervista ad Alessandro Del Sole, Microsoft MVP su Visual Basic, che ci racconta alcune delle novità di Visual Basic 2010: continuazione in linea, auto-implemented properties, espressioni lamba multi-linea, etc.

What is Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?

Beth Massi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:47:00 GMT

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 Vista, and Windows XP

Visit the Visual Basic 6 Migration page on the Visual Basic 6 Resource Center for tools and information on how to plan and execute a gradual, phased migration to .NET.

Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:37:00 GMT

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/

Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:15:00 GMT

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 Education

Auto-Implemented Properties in Visual Basic 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:36:00 GMT

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 Studio User Education

Small and Mighty - Community Talk with Bill Wolff

Brian Johnson — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:19:00 GMT

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 community has become a true family affair. His wife and Kids are typically part of the crew that makes the Code Camps possible.

Expert to Expert: Inside Concurrent Basic (CB)

Charles — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:09:00 GMT

"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 familiar to VB programmers, allows one to declare generic concurrency abstractions and provides more natural support for inheritance. CB also offers open extensibility based on custom attributes."

Code Sample:

Module Buffer

Public Asynchronous Put(ByVal s As String)

Public Synchronous Take() As String

Private Function CaseTakeAndPut(ByVal s As String) As String When Take, Put

Return s

End Function

End Module

OK. Sounds great. There are new keywords, Asynchronous and Synchronous. Conceptually, these are easy enough to understand. How do they work, exactly? What's the thinking behind the current design? Why was VB.NET chosen as the language to extend? Wouldn't any CLI language suffice? Who thought this up, anyway? What's the thinking behind the thinking?

Enter C9 celebrity host Erik Meijer, who leads yet another great conversation with fellow software experts Claudio Russo (MSR Researcher and co-creator of Concurrent Basic) and Lucian Wischik (software developer and current VB.NET Czar).

Obviously, we've been focusing a lot of attention of Concurrency and Parallelism over the past few years. We talk about the library versus language approach quite a bit. In this case, concurrency constructs have been baked into the language to form a different variant of VB, CB (Concurrent Basic). CB is a research project and therefore a research language. It has no ship vehicle and is not available for trial at this point. Microsoft makes no committment to shipping VB with these concurrency constructs built in. CB is a research language. CB is being shown in action at this year's MSR TechFest. Be sure to check out Laura's coverage of TechFest 2009.

10-4 Episode 9: Visual Basic 10

Jason Olson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:04:00 GMT

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, and Implicit Line Continuation.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Visual Basic Team Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam

Generic Variance in Visual Basic:
http://tinyurl.com/VBGenericVariance

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

10-4! Over and out!

ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:13:00 GMT

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 interesting observations about DSLs and Visual Basic XML literals. You can download the code Dmitry shows in the interview from his blog here.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Lucian Wischik and Lisa Feigenbaum: What's new in Visual Basic 10

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:54:00 GMT

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.

Meet the Visual Studio Managed Languages Development Experience Team

Beth Massi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:45:00 GMT

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

The P-Invoke Interop Assistant

Beth Massi — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:14:00 GMT

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).

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Beth Massi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:21:00 GMT

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.

And as for the "grey shirt joke" that's mentioned in the interview, see this post on the VB Team Blog.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

TechEd Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:36:00 GMT

I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue, how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release.

C9 Bytes: Lisa Feigenbaum on Visual Basic 2008 IDE Enhancements

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:55:00 GMT

Lisa Feigenbaum demos the new IDE enhancements for Visual Basic including contextual IntelliSense, keyword support, and XML literals which enable you to embed VB expressions in XML.