Status Report – April 25, 2002

I want to thank those of you who’ve been getting us feature ideas, samples, etc. We’ve been spending time collecting them and making sure that we have them captured. Tomorrow is an executive presentation on community efforts that are going on The highlights for the week:


1. Coding has started on the new VB community website on GotDotNet. I’ll let y’all know when it’s ready. Should be a lot of fun. The core of the site is a set of web services, allowing people to post their own announcements about cool articles, samples, user groups, books, web sites, etc. – which we’ll provide a front end to, and afterwards provide access to the data so that 3rd party sites can customize their own front ends with the data.



2. Reviews of community efforts in the group as well as discussions on how to continue to improve things.



3. Work on the next version of VB .NET



4. Started planning the next set of chats (mid-May thru end of June) – if you have any topics you’d like covered, let me know!



-yag


Upcoming chats (http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats):


Working With Data at Design Time in Visual Studio .NET
Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 - 22:00 GMT)

Talk about the tools available at design time for incorporating data access
into your Visual Basic or Visual C# application, as well as working with
your database from within the Visual Studio Environment (IDE).

Whitepaper: Design-Time Data Tools in Visual Studio .NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
t/html/vbtchDesignTimeDataToolsInVisualStudioNET.asp?frame=true




Exception Handling in Visual Basic .NET
Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 - 22:00 GMT)

Join us for a chat covering the things to keep in mind and best practices of
exception handling in Visual Basic .NET applications.

Whitepaper: Introduction to Exception Handling in Visual Basic .NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
t/html/vbtchexceptionserrorsinvisualbasicnet.asp



Deploying Visual Studio .NET Applications
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 - 22:00 GMT)

Join Microsoft in an online chat about the brave new world of deployment
using Visual Studio .NET. This session will use the "Deployment Changes in
Visual Basic .NET" whitepaper as a starting point; please feel free to ask
any deployment questions that you may have.

Whitepaper: Deployment Changes in Visual Basic .NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
t/html/vbtchdistributingapplicationscreatedwithvisualbasicnet.asp





White Papers
No white papers this week, sorry about that. It’s 12:15am, and I have to get to bed… I’ll have more next week. Promise.