In this interview I meet with the team that brings us the "experience" of coding in Visual Studio, also sometimes referred to as the VS IDE Team. I ask them how their design process works, what the top requested features are for the code editors, how they work with the language teams as well as what their favorite and hardest features are to build and test. Enjoy, - Beth Massi , Visual Studio Community

In this interview, Jared Parsons , a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex . The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke signatures and vice versa. Say goodbye to digging through random header files or MSDN documentation to find the right constants, structures and signatures. The P/Invoke Interop Assistant does a smarter translation for you using SAL (Source Code Annotation Language). Enjoy, - Beth Massi , Visual Studio

I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group of really smart people lead by Paul Vick . You can find most of the team members on the Visual Basic Team Blog . And as for the "grey shirt joke" that's mentioned in the interview, see this post on the VB Team Blog . Enjoy, - Beth Massi , Visual

I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue, how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release

Lisa Feigenbaum demos the new IDE enhancements for Visual Basic including contextual IntelliSense, keyword support, and XML literals which enable you to embed VB expressions in XML.