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[27 Jun 2009 | 0 Comments]

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]

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[26 Mar 2009 | 0 Comments]

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]

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[24 Mar 2009 | 0 Comments]

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]

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[21 Jan 2009 | 0 Comments]

There are times you need to resolver relative URL like "~/my/link.aspx" into absolute and you don't want to use the Page context or can't easily access it. Rick Strahl posted a great blog entry on ResolveUrl() without Page where he implements his own static ResolveUrl() method. I fo... [More]

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[6 May 2006 | 0 Comments]

Haven't updated you on VBFeeds.com status in a while - my apologies. The feeds were added recently into the aggregation list - Microsoft XML Team's Blog (they have regular posts about VB and LINQ) and Brian Beckman - great posts on VB9 and LINQ. And just last night I added Geo... [More]

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[5 Mar 2006 | 0 Comments]

Recent article by Mike Gunderloy on SearchVB.com - VB developers: Second class no more Image credit - jillypax at Zazzle.com

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[19 Oct 2005 | 0 Comments]

How many times did I mention lately I love ASP.NET 2.0 and VB2005? Not enough. Yet one more time – I absolutely love Whidbey! So, I decided to make vbfeeds.com mobile-enabled so visitors could browse it on their mobile device. In the past I would have a choice of setting up a virtual directory ... [More]

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[26 Sep 2005 | 0 Comments]

The idea of the new web site - VBFeeds - http://vbfeeds.com - was inspired by DelphiFeeds.com I stumbled upon last month. So, I decided to build a web site that would syndicate select web feeds with Visual Basic/.NET related content. But I went further - all posts are screened for content an... [More]

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[18 Jul 2005 | 0 Comments]

The latest DevCity.NET newsletter (July 15, 2005) is uploaded to the site. In this issue: Diary of a .NET Newbie: Don't Quote Me .NET Upgraders: Evolving to VB.NET. Part 5 - Creating YOUR Top 10 Reasons to Adopt Visual Basic .NET .NET Upgraders: Disabling Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows X... [More]

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[6 Jan 2005 | 0 Comments]

We (finally) launched new revamped DevCity.NET web site! It took a while to migrate to new software but it is done now :) New web site features better (hopefully) layout and look, online content management system featuring author registration, article submission, complete article/web site... [More]