Visual Basic Samples, Resources and More!

Yesterday the VB Team posted links to a TON of Visual Basic code samples and resources (see below) that have been made available by teams across Microsoft. It’s really nice to see the internal culture shift on a lot of teams to embrace the C# /VB Co-Evolution strategy. The VB Team still has work to do but the mentality on a lot of teams has come a long way since I joined Microsoft as a VB community champion almost 4 years ago.

The VB Team has also made strides in supporting other platforms like the phone and XNA. In SP1 they’ve made it a lot easier for product teams building other platforms to incorporate Visual Basic by using the new compilation mode in Visual Studio 2010 SP1. 

Here’s the list of samples and resources pulled from the VB team blog that they wanted to call out. Check them out and let us know what else is missing that you’d like to see:

Category	Links to Resources
	o Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools - RTW o Visual Basic Code Samples for Windows Phone o Free ebook: “Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold” - VB Code Samples (direct) o Windows Phone 7 Development For Absolute Beginners on Channel 9 o Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
	o Silverlight 4 Training Kit o Silverlight 4 MSDN Help Documentation o Silverlight 4 Application Themes Including Visual Basic Templates o See Also: Silverlight QuickStarts, Silverlight Video Code Downloads, Silverlight 4 Tutorials, Silverlight Toolkit Samples, Blog Tutorials (SL HyperVideo | Silverlight/MEF/HVP | Project Turing RIA Services | Project Turing Multiple Tables | Silverlight TDD | MVVM)*
	o Office 2010 Training Course Hands-On-Labs (Channel9, Download) o Open XML SDK 2.0 Samples for Microsoft Office o Open XML SDK 2.0 Documentation
	o SharePoint 2010 Help Topics o SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Kit*
	o Visual Studio Extensibility Samples o Visual Studio Start Page Customization Template o Static Code Analysis MSDN Help Documentation o 101 Async CTP Samples & Walkthrough o See Also: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Training Kit and VB Samples -> Language directory*
	o Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Samples o MEF Programming Guide Documentation o See Also: Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! Blog*
	o Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers & Windows 7 Online Training* o Windows 7 API Code Pack Samples*
	o Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 SDK Samples o See Also: Expression Encoder 3 Samples
	o “Using EF in Silverlight with VB” Article o Entity Framework Samples (VBTeam Blog, Code Gallery)* o VS 2010 Data How-Do-I Videos & Visual Basic Videos*
	o WCF Azure Samples o See Also: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit & Windows Azure SDK Samples (more recent VB samples underway, as well as documentation)
	o WCF/WF Samples, WCF/WF Help topics * o WPF Help topics, WPF Video Code Downloads* o ASP.NET MVC Tutorials * o Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET 4, .NET 4 Paper: Parallel Programming Patterns*
	o Patterns & Practices: “Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET” - Book Companion Samples   o Prism 4 Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs for WPF & Silverlight o Hands-On Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0
	o Book: "Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC" - VB Code Samples o Book: "ASP.Net 4 Step by Step" - VB Code Samples  o Visual Basic 2010 Books (Various) o MSDN Magazine Code Downloads
	o “Pex for Fun” Code Samples
	o VB Team Blog o WPF & Silverlight Blog by Karl Shifflett o Beth Massi Blog o VB MVP Articles & Blogs

Enjoy!

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 12, 2011
  Are there any VB.Net samples with MSTest unit tests included?

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2011
  Hi Allen, I'm not sure which ones do. I haven't looked through all the samples above in detail. You may want to check the VS Dev Center http://msdn.com/vstudio Cheers, -B

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2011
  Hello Beth is there any VB.Net samples about time Card application, because I try to design something like that.

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 17, 2011
  Hi Yvonne, You might want to check out the Coding4Fun site: blogs.msdn.com/.../coding4fun They have a lot of gaming examples there. HTH, -B

• Anonymous
  January 18, 2011
  Hi Beth, My question  is will Microsoft make a embedded database that can be deployed with visual studio, I know about  SQL Server Compact 3.5, I think this is fine for mobile devices, and web clients, I don't think this is a very good database for a desktop application.

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2011
  Hi Rick, I think SQL Express is what you're looking for. It is installed with Visual Studio Pro and higher or if you have an Express edition you can install SQL Express separately for free. See www.microsoft.com/.../Database for more info. HTH, -B

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2011
  Hi Beth, Think you so much for the quick response I have SQL Express 2005 and Visual Studio Pro 2008, I have tried to deploy a single user databasse application to install on another computer, but I have no luck in getting it to work. I have even install SQL Express on the other computer still no luck the link you gave me to look at was a deferent versions of SQL Express would that have anything to do with it ? I would be very grateful for any information on how to do this. Think You For Your Time And Knowledge  

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2011
  Hi Rick, I don't know what you mean by "no luck". If you are having installation issues then please ask your question in the forum and be specific: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads Cheers, -Beth

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2016
  Since the some of the old school "How do i: Video series has been retired to the 'Omnipresent' YouTube", what are the chances of centralizing them on GitHub or similar. Yes; I know you guys want to push newer technologies but I feel that old stuff is still useful and still has legs, especially as a learning tool.The content was clear concise and pertinent, short burst's of 'tech ed' in one handy location. Sadly; I get redirected to a VSsku download page when I try to access the old tutorials. and unless MVC or C# is your thing its even harder to find stuffApparently the content has been shifted to YouTube so finding the particular VS 'lightswitch & HTML Client', 'Forms Over Data', 'Report Building', etc is like shooting from the hip.Would be great if you guys could provide a link for me, and maybe others like me to download those old tutorial videos. Thanks for your Help :-)

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2016
  how to pass values between forms in VB.net