Patrick’s Bytes

Devtalk is basically a rebrand  of Microsoft Malaysia’s D3 event which normally runs on Friday morning. based on popular demand, the topic chosen for this week is VB9 and I was given the opportunity to present what I learnt from Lisa in her TechEd 2008 SEA VB sessions.

Turn out was very good where 20 person registered but end up we got 21 participants. And best of all they stay on until end of the session which over run for 30 minutes. So what I had presented as new features in Visual Basic 9 and VIsual Studio 2008 such as

1. New IDE features esp. Intellisense
2. New language features i.e. LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML
3. Refactor! for VB tools by DevExpress

For audience who want to download my demo and slides you can go to my Live folder here.

MS Student Partners is the program for university student to come on board and learn more about Microsoft technologies besides working together with Microsoft on some events and projects. These guys are awesome and they had help out in event like TechEd SEA. I had the opportunity to do a talk at the 2 days Student Partners Bootcamp here in KLCC. Its actually a redeliver of TechEd 2008 VB9 IDE Tips and Tricks session by Lisa Feigenbaum.

You can download the content of the session here or here.

To the student partners, Visual Basic ROCKS!!!

The team got me to help them do a series of video recordings focusing on Visual Studio 2008 new features. Among them are VB 9.0 and VSTO 3.0. The first video just came out some time ago, and kid you not, I am more nervous doing recording and giving talk in a hall. So check out my attempt to embarrass myself here, but I welcome all feedback to improve myself. I shared about a new feature in VB9.0 called Friend Assemblies.

http://blogs.msdn.com/malaysia/archive/2008/01/11/visual-studio-2008-vb-9-0-friend-assemblies.aspx

To watch out for in near future, you will see my videos about another 2 of my favorite VB 9.0 features.

1. In Language XML Support
2. If Operator

Also after Chinese New Year will plan on recordings of VSTO3.0

1. Integrating .NET 3.5 into Office
2. RAD programming with Office 2007 Ribbon UI
3. SharePoint workflow - From 15 steps to 5

A x’mas carol from Don Box, Amanda Silver and Chris Anderson

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=367997#367997

Here is the lyrics

Module VB
Dim myvar As Integer?() = {3 * 3}
Sub Main()
For Each i In myvar
            Console.Write(”Hello VB”)
With i
                Console.Write(.Value)
End With REM a language so true
If i IsNot Nothing Then
               Console.WriteLine()
End If REM
            Console.Write(<some>xml</some>)
Next
End Sub
End Module

Channel 9 featured 2 Visual Basic interviews this week as related to Visual Studio 2008 with focus on LINQ and Intellisense.

Here is also a link to a number of VB video tutorials.