Thanks to all of you who came out to DevTeach and cudos to the organizers for running a great event. I hope to see you in Montreal in December. You can download the slides and demos I used in my sessions by clicking the links below. Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation Windows Communication...
The spring conference season keeps on chugging along. The MVP Summit and DevTeach just finished and TechEd is just around the corner. It will be interesting to see what effect splitting the conference into a developer week and an IT Pro week will have. I've been spending a lot of time with SharePoint...
While I was in Vegas for Un-Mix 08 , I sat down with Derek Hatchard to record a show for Devcasting . About a week later Derek decided to repave his machine but unfortunately, he forgot to backup the recording of the interview. We got together over Skype to re-record a couple weeks ago. What started...
If you're not familiar with the concept, a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion lead by a moderator who is not a Microsoft employee. The sessions are not presentations, there are no projectors. Unlike the Keynotes and Breakout sessions which are mostly one to many communication...
I'll be doing my first webcast tomorrow with Beth Massi on VB 6.0 to .NET integration and migration. Visual Basic (VB) 6 was used by millions of developers world-wide to build applications ranging from thousands to millions of lines of code representing significant organizational investments. The...
The VB Team has added about 50 "How Do I" videos to the VB Developer Center. The topics include Forms over Data, Windows Development, Office Development, Security, and so on. Most of the videos are 20 minutes or less so there a great way to get up to speed on a topic really quickly. You can...
Quite regularly, when I'm speaking at a conference or teaching a course, I'll have someone come up and ask me about the refactoring tool I used during a demo. It's not that well known but just before Visual Studio 2005 was released, Microsoft partnered with Developer Express to provide a...
An article/walktrough I wrote on Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation has been posted to the Visual Basic Community Site . In my previous article, Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation , I described the basics of creating and consuming a simple WCF service...
I'm pleased to announce that, beginning in November, the Toronto Visual Basic User Group (TVBUG) will be adding a new feature to it's meetings called VB FUN-damentals . Update (Nov 2): Due to a scheduling mix-up, the VB FUN-damentals sessions will not begin until our December meeting. VB FUN...
If you're interested in seeing some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 in action, you should check out the series of "How Do I" videos at http://www.visualstudio2008beta.com/videos.htm . There are 13 up there now and more will be added every week. If you want to play along, head...