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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:21 PM

DevTeach Toronto Session Materials

Thanks to all of you who came out to DevTeach and cudos to the organizers for running a great event. I hope to see you in Montreal in December. You can download the slides and demos I used in my sessions by clicking the links below. Introduction to Windows...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:47 PM

TechEd Developer 2008

The spring conference season keeps on chugging along. The MVP Summit and DevTeach just finished and TechEd is just around the corner. It will be interesting to see what effect splitting the conference into a developer week and an IT Pro week will have...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:26 PM

Talking WCF on Devcasting

While I was in Vegas for Un-Mix 08 , I sat down with Derek Hatchard to record a show for Devcasting . About a week later Derek decided to repave his machine but unfortunately, he forgot to backup the recording of the interview. We got together over Skype...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:02 AM

TechEd BOF Session: Strategies for Moving Your Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET

If you're not familiar with the concept, a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion lead by a moderator who is not a Microsoft employee. The sessions are not presentations, there are no projectors. Unlike the Keynotes and Breakout sessions...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:48 PM

Webcast: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET

I'll be doing my first webcast tomorrow with Beth Massi on VB 6.0 to .NET integration and migration. Visual Basic (VB) 6 was used by millions of developers world-wide to build applications ranging from thousands to millions of lines of code representing...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:10 PM

"How Do I" Videos on the VB Developer Center

The VB Team has added about 50 "How Do I" videos to the VB Developer Center. The topics include Forms over Data, Windows Development, Office Development, Security, and so on. Most of the videos are 20 minutes or less so there a great way to...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:00 AM

Refactoring in Visual Basic 2005 and 2008

Quite regularly, when I'm speaking at a conference or teaching a course, I'll have someone come up and ask me about the refactoring tool I used during a demo. It's not that well known but just before Visual Studio 2005 was released, Microsoft...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:37 PM

Visual Studio 2008 to be Released on November 15th?

Don Box hints that it may be so. http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2007/11/10/49001.aspx
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Friday, November 02, 2007 1:10 AM

Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation on the Visual Basic Community Site

An article/walktrough I wrote on Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation has been posted to the Visual Basic Community Site . In my previous article, Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation , I described the basics...
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Monday, October 29, 2007 5:50 PM

Toronto VB User Group Announces VB FUN-damentals Sessions

I'm pleased to announce that, beginning in November, the Toronto Visual Basic User Group (TVBUG) will be adding a new feature to it's meetings called VB FUN-damentals . Update (Nov 2): Due to a scheduling mix-up, the VB FUN-damentals sessions...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:56 AM

Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

If you're interested in seeing some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 in action, you should check out the series of "How Do I" videos at http://www.visualstudio2008beta.com/videos.htm . There are 13 up there now and more will be...
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Monday, October 15, 2007 2:53 PM

DevLink Session Materials

Thanks to all of you who came out this weekend for DevLink and cudos to the organizers for running a great event. I hope to see you next year. You can download the slides and demos I used in my sessions by clicking the links below. Performing a Phased...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:08 PM

Using a Splash Screen from an External Assembly in Visual Basic 2005

This issue came up on one of email lists I'm involved in and I though the solution was worth sharing. The developer wanted to know how to use a splash screen from an external assembly (i.e. a DLL) in a Visual Basic 2005 Windows application. If you...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:56 AM

Application Settings Made Easy with My and Visual Basic 2005

Most applications require some configuration settings that could change over time. Classic examples would be a connection string to a database, the URL to your company web site, or the path to a log file. These settings could be stored in the application...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:07 AM

Some Specifics on Generics

Generics are the most significant language addition to .NET 2.0. They allow for code re-use in ways not previously available and make it much easier to write type-safe, better performing code. That is, they help you turn runtime exceptions into compile...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:58 AM

Keep Client Applications Responsive with the BackgroundWorker

Many applications need to perform some kind of long-running task like downloading a file, performing a complex calculation, or retrieving data from a database. Executing these tasks can make your application become unresponsive and end up making your...
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