May 2005 Entries

This blog is on semi-hiatus for the summer...

Normally I don’t comment too much about the waxing and waning of my blog activity, but looking ahead at the summer I think that it’s worth letting everyone know that things are likely to be somewhat slow around here through September. I don’t expect to cease blogging entirely, but the somewhat sauntering pace of entries is probably going to slow even further until we get to the PDC. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re working on some new ideas for post-VB 2005, and our hope is to be able to talk about them some in the fall. To do that, though,...

Meet with the VB Team at TechEd!

Jay is soliciting people who are interested in chatting with the VB team at TechEd 2005. Check it out…

Guerilla TechEd 2005 Cabana session?

We’re now about three weeks away from TechEd 2005, and I’m starting to get a flurry of internal emails about preparations, sessions, etc. Like last year, I’m not scheduled to give any talks or anything, so I’ll mostly be hanging out at the Visual Basic 2005 booth and at the developer cabana. I know they’re scheduling cabana talks for various presenters, but I thought I’d check and see if there was any interest in any guerilla cabana sessions on topics related to the VB language. As we get closer to the actual event I’ll put up more details on where...

How our background compiler works...

Matt Gertz, the compiler development lead, has written an article in the latest edition of MSDN Magazine about VB’s background compiler technology. It’s a good expansion on the entries (part 1, intermission, part 2) that I wrote last year. Check it out!