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]

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]