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(Starting today, we'll be highlighting various tips that might help you when using the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit.   With the latest release of the toolkit, you can do some fairly impressive upgrades to your existing VB6 applications.  Don't believe me?  Check this out as one cool example  - WPF in VB6 anyone?!)   If you don't have it, you can download the toolkit here .     Adding Font Property: Here's a tip on extending Interop Usercontrol ... [ read more ]
(Recently, we released the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit which allows you to add the richness of .net windows forms to your vb6 application.  We've gotten a fair number of questions from customers asking for more details on deployment, so this will hopefully answer most of your questions)   As I'm sure you're aware, deploying VB6 COM based applications can get complicated at times, which is one of the great advantages that moving your applications to .NET gives you.   The Int ... [ read more ]
The snippet feature is one of the features that I’m fondest of in Visual Basic.   It was another one of a handful of features that got discussed in a series of “What if…” meetings that Sam & I had during the “Whidbey” planning stages.   As I recall, the things that motivated it for Sam was demos, and for me it was macros.   Visual Studio already had the capability to allow users to drag text to the toolbox to be reused elsewhere in the code, a time-saver frequently ... [ read more ]
The VB team just posted some Hands On Labs on LINQ and LINQ to SQL for Orcas Beta 1. The first lab provides an introduction to The LINQ Project . You'll look at basic LINQ features including the Standard Query Operators, and you'll see how these features can be used against in-memory collections, connected databases, and XML documents. The second lab  aims to provide a clear picture of the relational data access support provided by the LINQ Project, referred to as LINQ to SQL. ... [ read more ]
These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new XML Editor , XSLT Debugger , and EDM Wizard  coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new XSD Designer and EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas release.


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