Visual Basic 2008 Examples from Microsoft Microsoft has a great many examples available to everyone that are based on Visual Basic 2008 which is about a 9 MB download. They cover everything from Excel and Powerpoint to LINQ and Database. Click this Link. if you want to check them out. Visual Basic (ALL) Remember to use the GetInputState() call when you call Doevents() in your code. Click for Doevents with GetInputState Example and/or Click for Article/Tutorial on using Doevents and GetInputState Using old VB.NET Projects with new VB.NET If you find a example in a earlier version of Visual Basic.NET (2002/2003), you CAN load those projects with VB 2005 and 2008 versions. You usually just need to click through a simple automated upgrade process. Don't forget VB 05/08 Code Snippets! Check out and get familar with the Hundreds of built-in Source Code Snippets in Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008. Why waste time wring code when you may not need to? Visual Basic 2008 Express RTM Microsoft has now released the full RTM version of Visual Basic 2008 code named Orcas. They have the Express, Standard,Professional, and ect... editions available for download. . Click Here Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 A couple weeks ago Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for all versions of 2005. Including the Express Editions. Although there were not many features added, there was alot of fixes for this update. Click Here for the Standard/Professional/Team Editions. You can Click Here for the Express Editions. Windows Server 2008 RC1 Here Microsoft continues to give users a peak at their latest and greatest. It obviously helps them when we do which should help to find and fix bugs. They now have RC1 (Release Candidate 1) of their new Windows Server 2008 operating system. You can get a key that will allow you to use the operating system through to June 30th 2008.Click Here to check it out. The Visual Basic Language on Silverlight The link in this post will take you to the VB Team Blog page which has a nice post on Silverlight in combination with Visual Basic. Shows the features currently supported and the ones that currently aren't. Click Here VB Teams - Silverlight Definition: While I was checking out the VB Teams blog page I thought it might be good to go ahead and post the quick definition of Silverlight. According to the VB Team - Silverlight 1.1 is a new light weight version of the .NET Framework that will allow you to develop rich applications that run in a web browser using .NET languages. The basic idea is to allow you to replace client side java script with .NET enabled languages, allowing you to write both the client side and sever side portions of your web applications in the same language. What is the difference between VB 9, VBx and Silverlight? This link will take you to the VB Team blog page and has a detailed comparison and explanation between Visual Basic 9.0, VBx, and the Silverlight features. What is VBx? It will be the next version of Visual Basic after Orcas (VB 9). So, VBx would be VB 10. Click Here