This post is to track the progress of the vbCity migration to the new platform. Our test upgrades and database conversion of the ~700,000 posts has taken close to 24 hours so the actual move will take a little over 24 hours. The site will be down and redirect to the Offline page for the entire dur... [More]

I don't normally post this kind of stuff but this is just plain funny! Couldn't resist :)

I know, this is technically a Beer Symphony but the beer is VB! :)

At SubMain we are collecting email addresses of the users who download trial version of our CodeIt.Right product as well as our free products - GhostDoc and .NET Coding Guidelines. We do that for two main reasons - we track download statistics and keep a point of contact with the users to provide t... [More]

Who is the "typical VB.NET developer"? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. Microsoft VB Team decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they are building, what technologies they are usin... [More]

Microsoft File Transfer Manager is the tool used by Microsoft to download MSDN Subscription files. It is a nice little tool and very handy when getting rather large updates for Microsoft products. Sometimes though the download item get stuck in the queue and the Transfer Manager keeps trying... [More]

Oliver Sturm and Gary Short have recently started their new podcast, called Sod This, and it's here: http://www.sodthis.com. Sod This is a mixture of two rather technical people having a chat, discussions about relevant or not so relevant technology, programming questions and sock monsters, and i... [More]

I’ve done quite a bit of MDB upsizing to SQL Server in the past. And it works just like a snap - you go to Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard, choose your destination server, couple of clicks, bang - you are done! So, when I needed to import a MS Access 2007 database into SQL 2008... [More]

Silverlight Toolkit was updated in the March 2009 release with Visual Basic examples added. My compliments to Silverlight Team! Here is what Microsoft says: The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3. The Toolk... [More]

Microsoft Patterns & Practices' Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named Prism) which initially was released only for C# is now made available by Microsoft in VB.NET as well! The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you ... [More]