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Hi all, As of today, we are moving this blog to a new location .  We've decided to merge our blogging efforts with the rest of the VB team, and thus are moving our posts to the VB Team blog .   VS 2005 launches TODAY!  Thus, the motivation behind merging is to create one site to be your best one-stop shop for Visual Basic content. In terms of updating your subscription, you can change your feed from http://blogs.msdn.com/vbide to http://blog ... [ read more ]


Visual Studio has more toolbars and commands than any one person will likely need to use. That is why we ship a variety of development settings: so that you can select the developer profile most like you, and then we can tailor the environment to your needs.  In the Visual Basic Development Settings, we surface the commands and tools that you are most likely to use as a VB developer building world-class applications.  It is quite common though, that yo ... [ read more ]


Hi all, Ken Levy and I created a Channel9 video, which demonstrates the Code Snippets feature in VS2005.  Click here to check out the 38min show. I've also blogged about this on the vbteam blog , so you can look there for more details. I hope that you will take this opportunity to learn more about the ways you can use code snippets.  If you have been reading this blog, it will also be a good opportunity for us to meet (via video). :) ... [ read more ]


Last week in Los Angeles (Sept13-16), Microsoft hosted PDC0 5… the11 th Professional Developers Conference.  The PDC is a conference to educate, inform and excite the developer community about the future of the Microsoft platform.  The conference was sold out, but there are still a number of sites where you can go to learn about what went on: You can watch the opening keynotes on Tuesday, 9/13   here .  You can also see the rest of the s ... [ read more ]
This post has been moved to the following location: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/04/25/working-with-shortcut-keys-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx
This request has been raised lately by folks working with XML, who want to create XML files without using a project.  If a project is already open, then you can easily create a new file by right-clicking on the project, and selecting Add->New Item. (You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A).  The command that this uses is called Project.AddNewItem. If the file is not to be part of a project though, then you need to use the File.NewFile command.  ... [ read more ]


This post was inspired by an MSDN Ladybug .  However, it exposes a cool trick that you all might want to try! Consider the case that you want to make the Command Window item appear in the View menu itself (rather than in its current location in View->Other Windows).  Here are 2 ways of doing so: DRAG & DROP: Go to Tools->Customize... Click on the View menu in Visual Studio and navigate via Other Windows to Command Window. Drag the Command Window item ... [ read more ]


Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday, July 28th, at 1pm (PST).  We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger.  You can bring your own questions or just listen in on the discussion.  Click here for more details on the discussion, along with instructions for accessing the chat.


Try our list of Frequently Asked Questions below to answer questions that you might have about code snippets. Don't see the one you need?  Then add a comment to this blog or post to the   Visual Basic Forum .  We'd love to hear from you!   1)       What is an IntelliSense code snippet? An IntelliSense code snippet is a fragment of code that can be inserted into the code editor to accomplish a particular ... [ read more ]


This post has been moved to the following location:   http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/07/did-you-know-there-are-many-ways-to-insert-a-snippet-into-your-code-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx


Please join us in an online chat this coming Thursday the 19th at 1pm (PST).  We'll be answering questions from the audience about the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger.  You can bring your own questions or just listen in on the discussion.  Click here for more details on the discussion, along with instructions for accessing the chat.


Some subtle changes were made in Visual Basic .Net 2005 to make code generation of overidden methods a little easier.  In Visual Basic .Net 2003 and earlier, you used the code dropdowns as in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 When overriding a Sub, a declaration stub similar to the following was generated in the editor. Public Overrides Sub MyOverridableSub() End Sub In Visual Basic .Net 2005, you never have to leave the code editor. Figure 2 Y ... [ read more ]


Create your own Code Snippets with the Visual Basic Snippet Editor Yesterday we posted the Visual Basic Snippet Editor, with source code, on http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vbsnippeteditor .  The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing and testing VB code snippets. You can specify snippet code and metadata (e.g., title, author, description, keyboard shortcut), replacement variables, and referenced assemblies. You can pr ... [ read more ]
Refactoring in Visual Basic 2005 In case you haven’t already heard, last Thursday (4/21) we announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005, a free version of Developer Express Inc.’s Refactor! product that supports Visual Basic 2005.  This is a fully functional and licensed version of their product that integrates into the Visual Studio Standard, Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Team System products.  With this tool VB developers will ha ... [ read more ]


This post has been moved to the following location:   http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/12/08/did-you-know-you-can-unwind-the-call-stack-from-exceptions-bill-horst.aspx


Welcome to the Visual Basic IDE Blog. This blog is hosted by the program managers, developers, and testers who work on the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (VB IDE).  My name is Lisa Feigenbaum, and I am a Program Manager on the Team.  There are many new features, as well as enhancements to existing features, in Visual Basic 2005.   So, I thought a good way to start this off would be to provide my list of the top 10 new features in the Visual Basic 2 ... [ read more ]


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