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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>John Martin's Blog : VB</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/VB/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: VB</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>New Social Features Integrated into Redesigned MSDN Dev Centers </title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/09/05/new-social-features-integrated-into-redesigned-msdn-dev-centers.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3117460</guid><dc:creator>John Martin</dc:creator><slash:comments>12</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/comments/3117460.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3117460</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3117460</wfw:comment><description>Building on the new designs that were launched in May , the MSDN team is beginning to release a new round of Dev Center design updates - starting with the Visual Basic Developer Center . Developer Centers are mini-sites on MSDN focused on specific developer...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/09/05/new-social-features-integrated-into-redesigned-msdn-dev-centers.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3117460" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/MSDN/default.aspx">MSDN</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/Social+Bookmarks/default.aspx">Social Bookmarks</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/Social+Platform/default.aspx">Social Platform</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/VB/default.aspx">VB</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/Microsoft/default.aspx">Microsoft</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/Developer+Centers/default.aspx">Developer Centers</category></item><item><title>Thanks for a Great TechEd Developers 2008!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/06/07/thanks-for-a-great-teched-developers-2008.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3067482</guid><dc:creator>John Martin</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/comments/3067482.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3067482</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3067482</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;Last week was a great week and I want to thank everyone who visited us in the MSDN Zone and/or&amp;nbsp;attended &lt;A class="" title="Tshak's blog" href="http://tshak.net/cs/blogs/tshak/default.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://tshak.net/cs/blogs/tshak/default.aspx"&gt;Tshak's&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A class="" title="Paul's Blog" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pajohn/default.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pajohn/default.aspx"&gt;Paul Johnson's&lt;/A&gt; sessions.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I also want to thank the more than 1,200 social bookmarkers from around the world that have started bookmarking using our new &lt;A class="" title="MSDN Bookmarks Preview" href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/bookmarks/en-US/#sort=week&amp;amp;page=0" target=_blank mce_href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/bookmarks/en-US/#sort=week&amp;amp;page=0"&gt;Social Bookmarks Preview&lt;/A&gt;. We have started to add feeds of social bookmarks to Dev Centers on &lt;A class="" title="MSDN Home Page" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx"&gt;MSDN&lt;/A&gt; and so far, we have them on the &lt;A class="" title="VB Community Page" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789066.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789066.aspx"&gt;VB&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A class="" title="VC# Community Page" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336717.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336717.aspx"&gt;VC#&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A class="" title="VSX Community Page" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/bb980958.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/bb980958.aspx"&gt;VSX&lt;/A&gt; centers. These feeds are &lt;EM&gt;tag-filtered&lt;/EM&gt;, so if you'd like to contribute to one of those centers, simply use our social bookmarks preview to bookmark a URL (from anywhere on the web - not just Microsoft sites)&amp;nbsp;and apply these tags:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Visual Basic:&lt;/STRONG&gt; "visual basic" (use quotes to keep both words in the tag)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Visual C#:&lt;/STRONG&gt; "csharp"&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Visual Studio Extensibility:&lt;/STRONG&gt; "vsx"&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If you'd like to learn more about our social bookmarking feed service, see &lt;A class="" title="Taylor's blog on social feeds" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorp/archive/2008/06/05/msdn-social-platform-feed-service.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorp/archive/2008/06/05/msdn-social-platform-feed-service.aspx"&gt;Taylor Parson's blog on it.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We also cut a great TechTalk video that sheds a little light on the technical side of Social Bookmarks on MSDN and TechNet:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Thanks again for your support!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3067482" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/MSDN/default.aspx">MSDN</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/TechEd/default.aspx">TechEd</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/Social+Bookmarks/default.aspx">Social Bookmarks</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/VB/default.aspx">VB</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/VSX/default.aspx">VSX</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/VC_2300_/default.aspx">VC#</category></item></channel></rss>