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Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:42 PM

July 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

SQL Server 2008 is almost here – the first release candidate was just released – do you know what it offers for application developers? Dubi Lebel, from Microsoft Israel, will fill us in on the more important benefits for developers, in this 2-session...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:22 PM

June 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

One of the most important new technologies for .NET, that we haven’t really covered in any of our IVBUG meetings, is WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows applications. It provides both developers...
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Monday, May 26, 2008 4:21 PM

Visual Basic Makes it to Prime Time TV (CSI New York)

Check out this short scene from last week’s CSI New York ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s And they say that VB gets no respect...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 11:42 AM

Notes on TechEd Israel 2008

Last week was the (now) semi-annual TechEd Israel conference. This was my sixth time participating in this event - I have given presentations at all six TechEds here. The conference is an amazing experience and has come a long way from 2000/2001 when...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 10:13 PM

Observations from VSLive! San Francisco 2008

I recently (OK, 10 days ago) returned from my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco, to speak at the main VSLive conference. My presentations this year are described here . I'd like to share with you two observations / surprises from this conference: (1...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:15 PM

April 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements. This month’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Matthew...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:49 PM

One More Time - Awarded Microsoft MVP for Another Year

Well, spring is in the air, which for me means, among other things the renewal time for my Microsoft MVP award. I am proud to say that once again this year I have proven to be worthy of the award - thanks Microsoft ! Unfortunately, I won't be able to...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:54 PM

March 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

Sharepoint is big . Very big. It is actually made of two different downloads (WSS & MOSS), a large set of reusable components and an SDK to accompany it. And Dan Amiga, VP of R&D for Semantinet, is just the one to explain to us how to take advantage...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 3:59 PM

10 Years of IVBUG (Israel Visual Basic User Group) Meetings !

Earlier this month, at our monthly meeting, the Israel Visual Basic User Group celebrated its tenth (10th) birthday ! When I first started bouncing this idea off other VB developers and people at Microsoft Israel, I never could have imagined that ten...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:50 PM

Performance Improvements in VB9 / VS 2008

I recently had a discussion with Lisa Feigenbaum of the VB dev team regarding performance improvements in the upcoming version of Visual Basic. She pointed me to the following 2 interesting resources: Cameron McColl, VB perf developer, talks about and...
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