Status Report – August 8, 2002
Lots of fun things to report on. I’m going to just list them in no apparent order… <g>
1. We’ve posted 101 new VB .NET samples online! Check out the following URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/samples/visualbasic.asp. If you have any ideas for samples that you’d like to see, just respond to this message here online and I’ll make sure to collect them.
2. We’ve started our user group tour. Mike Iem and I were in Denver this past Monday and had a great time (despite the flu <g>). Thanks to all those who came to see us. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/vbnet/ for a full list of cities and dates.
3. Chats continue on. I’ve listed the upcoming ones below – and transcripts of completed chants are available at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats.
-yag
Become A Help Power User
Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 – 22:00 GMT)
There is a lot of great material in the Visual Studio help system. This session will cover various tips and tricks for getting the most out of it and will collect your feedback on the help system.
Rich Editing User Interface in Windows Forms: The PropertyGrid Control
Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 – 22:00 GMT)
The .NET Framework PropertyGrid control is a great way to surface a number of options to users. The whitepaper "Getting the Most Out of the .NET Framework PropertyGrid Control" (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/usingpropgrid.asp) discusses where, when, and how to implement this control. Come discuss this and other solutions to the user interface problems you are encountering when creating Windows Forms.
Advanced Interaction with Windows Forms Controls
Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 – 22:00 GMT)
The Windows Forms ToolBox contains a number of controls that offer a great deal of power and flexibility to client application developers. The whitepaper "Sorting ListView Items by Column Using Windows Forms" (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/listviewsort.asp) discusses one aspect of this; come chat about issues and strategies you have when working with the Windows Forms Controls.
Creating Office Add-ins with Visual Basic .NET
Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 – 22:00 GMT)
Building COM Add-Ins using # or Visual Basic .NET combines the rich object models of the Office applications and the .NET Framework with the power of Visual Basic .NET's language features. However, combining COM objects and .NET objects can present a few challenges. Come discuss the problems you are encountering and strategies you have found to work around them.
Visual Studio .NET Debugger (** Note special day **)
Thursday, September 19, 2002, 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Pacific time (21:00 – 22:00 GMT)
Join Microsoft experts in an online chat to discuss debugging .NET applications using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger.
White Papers
Deploying Hybrid Visual Basic 6.0 / Visual Basic .NET Applications
This paper demonstrates how to deploy applications that contain both Visual Basic® 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET components.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbcondeployinghybridvisualbasic60visualbasicnetapplications.aspConway’s Game of Life as a Windows Forms Application
Welcome back to Dr. GUI's latest article on .NET Framework programming—this time, an application of two-dimensional arrays called Conway's Game of Life.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinet7_update.asp Drives and Directories and Files! Oh, My!
In this article, Rocky Lhotka describes the support and flexibility offered by Visual Basic .NET in terms of interacting with files and directories, and provides a best practices approach on applying it to your applications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet07232002.aspDeploying .NET Applications: Lifecycle Guide
Provides development and procedural guidance for developers deploying .NET applications, and discusses the issues and processes for deploying .NET applications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/DALGRoadmap.asp
