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Friday, May 1 by Lisa Feigenbaum

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Learn how to free your application from dependencies and interchange implementations using Managed Extensibility Framework.
Monday, Apr 27 by Kathleen Dollard

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Wednesday, Apr 15 by Alessandro del Sole

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Learn how to create powerful templates that can be called from both client and server-side code.
Friday, Apr 3 by Steele Price

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	Featured Team Member: Jared Parsons [ http://blogs.msdn.com/jaredpar.aspx ] Extension Methods and ByRef targets [ http://blogs.msdn.com/jaredpar/archive/2008/12/11/extension-methods-and-byref-targets.aspx ] Thursday, Dec 11

Latest Blog Posts

Using the WPF ObservableCollection with EF Entities [ http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2009/05/08/using-the-wpf-observablecollection-with-ef-entities.aspx ]
Friday, May 8 by Beth Massi
An Async Html cache – part II – Testing the cache [ http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2009/05/08/an-async-html-cache-part-ii-testing-the-cache.aspx ]
Friday, May 8 by lucabol
CodeCast Episode 20 with Yours Truly! [ http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2009/05/07/codecast-episode-20-with-yours-truly.aspx ]
Thursday, May 7 by Beth Massi
CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi (Lisa Feigenbaum, Beth Massi) [ http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/05/06/codecast-episode-20-biz-apps-team-and-vb-with-beth-massi-lisa-feigenbaum-beth-massi.aspx ]
Wednesday, May 6 by VBTeam
How Do We Learn to Be Good Programmers? (Matt Gertz) [ http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/05/05/how-do-we-learn-to-be-good-programmers-matt-gertz.aspx ]
Tuesday, May 5 by VBTeam

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	Featured MVP: Jim Duffy [ https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=32b9fcd7-afe0-4f15-8433-06ef308b13cc.aspx ] Read Jim's article "Sending Emails in .NET with the System.Net.Mail Namespace".
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WPF: localization foundations with Visual Basic [ http://community.visual-basic.it/alessandroenglish/archive/2009/05/07/25439.aspx ]
Thursday, May 7 by alessandro.delsole@nospamvisual-basic.it
Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource [ http://msmvps.com/blogs/theproblemsolver/archive/2009/04/27/paging-with-the-silverlight-ria-services-domaindatasource.aspx ]
Monday, Apr 27 by Maurice
XAML code snippets in Visual Basic 2008 [ http://community.visual-basic.it/alessandroenglish/archive/2009/04/19/25346.aspx ]
Sunday, Apr 19 by alessandro.delsole@nospamvisual-basic.it
ADO.NET Data Services: deleting entities with associations [ http://community.visual-basic.it/alessandroenglish/archive/2009/04/11/25296.aspx ]
Saturday, Apr 11 by alessandro.delsole@nospamvisual-basic.it
Using Model – View – ViewModel with Silverlight [ http://msmvps.com/blogs/theproblemsolver/archive/2009/04/07/using-model-view-viewmodel-with-silverlight.aspx ]
Tuesday, Apr 7 by Maurice

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[ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb735936.aspx ]	Visual Basic Power Packs [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb735936.aspx ] Download these free add-ins, controls, components, and tools.
[ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789074.aspx ]	Visual Basic Code Samples [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789074.aspx ] Check out these application, web, and data samples in Visual Basic.
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[ http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/cc159292.aspx ]	MSDN Magazine [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/cc159292.aspx ] Read in-depth articles on Visual Basic.