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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:08 AM

I’m a VB !

Check out the growing set of video and text interviews with leading VB developers at the I’m A VB site.   You can find my interview at Jackie VB .
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Monday, June 08, 2009 12:34 AM

Using Speech Recognition to Program in Microsoft Visual Studio

We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition. At Renaissance, we try to allocate time for our developers to explore new tools and technologies that are not necessarily related to their current...
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Monday, April 06, 2009 10:19 AM

Word Mail Merge with Attachment

UPDATE #2:  Thanks to the comment by Tony, making 2 simple changes to the code eliminates the need for step (3) below. I’ve commented out the line Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") and changed Set olNS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:55 AM

Just Released – Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) This...
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Friday, February 27, 2009 5:59 AM

March 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

This month we take a look at design and architecture, rather than specific technologies. Konstantin Triger, a Senior Consultant at Sela, will take a look at the deadly sins of performance, particularly from the design perspective.  It is important...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:19 PM

Looking at .NET - From Both Sides Now

Usually when we talk about comparing VB and C#, it is in the context of trying to show which language is better.  However, here is a different approach – a pair of articles that explain nuances of one language for developers who normally program...
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Monday, February 02, 2009 2:36 PM

February 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

This month we return to take a look at some of the web development technologies from Microsoft - Dynamic Data Controls (DDC) and Model View Controller (MVC). The new technology of ASP.NET DDC (Dynamic Data Controls) help us to build a presentation layer...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:45 PM

January 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

January’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 – Juval Lowy from IDesign. Juval is a world-famous expert on WCF and Connected Systems and will be...
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Friday, December 05, 2008 7:30 AM

Heading Off to VSLive Dallas

Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:47 AM

September 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

This month we return to dig deep into code. The use of generics for .NET programming is a somewhat different, but extremely powerful and efficient, way of writing code. Pavel Yosifovich, CTO of Michlelet Hi-Tech, will get us all up to speed on using generics...
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