Visual Basic Content Rollup for July and August

So I decided to post a summary of all the content the VB team members, including myself, have created for you on the Developer Center these past couple of months to make it easier to find. The Developer Center is a great place to visit often because the VB Team, myself and Paul Vick's blogs are all aggregated on the home page. Headlines also change frequently and MVPs donate community articles that you should definitely check out. We also have feeds of the CodePlex Projects and VB Forum posts that display dynamic content as well. Soon we'll have even more content feeds and community features so stay tuned and check back often.

Content Item Details (Since July 1)

Channel 9 Interviews:

• Erik Meijer Shows Us His Favorite Visual Basic 9.0 Feature - XML Literals
• Building Hybrid Applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0
• Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008
• Enabling LINQ: Kit George Shows Off His Favorite VB 9.0 Language Features
• TechEd Booth Demo: LINQ to XML in VB 9.0
• Extension Methods in Visual Basic 9.0
• Visual Basic Intellisense Improvements in VS 2008
• Amanda Silver on Visual Basic LINQ Syntax in Visual Studio 2008
• LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer in VS 2008     

Eight more How Do I videos were released since July 1^st and a new series started on LINQ:

• LINQ Series
  #1 | How Do I: Get Started with LINQ?
  #2 | How Do I: Perform Group and Aggregate Queries?
  #3 | How Do I: LINQ over DataSets?
  #4 | How Do I: Get Started with LINQ to SQL?
  #5 | How Do I: Create a One-To-Many Form using LINQ to SQL?
  
• Forms over Data Series
  #15 | How Do I: Understand Data?
  #16 | How Do I: Update Related Tables?
  
• Object Binding Series
   #4 | How Do I: Add Filter Support?

MSDN Magazine:

• Kit George, Ting Liang : Unleash the power of query in Visual Studio 2008
• Scott Wisniewski: Basic Instincts: Query Comprehensions
• Bill Burrows: Programming with XML Using Visual Basic 9

Blogs:

• LINQ Cookbook Recipes

15 articles (some with sample code) published since July 1st

• A Walkthrough of WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008
• Implementing Dynamic Searching Using LINQ
• Resizing Images Stored in SQL-Server
• Converting VS 2005 Projects to VS 2008 - Enabling LINQ
• Closures in VB Part 5: Looping
• Metadata Programming and LINQ
• An Example of Dynamic Programming in VB , Follow up: Making our Code More Dynamic
• Using the PrintForm component in Visual Basic
• TableAdapters and Transactions
• Working with TableAdapters and Related DataTables
• Loading and Saving Files in Visual Basic
• Debugging Hybrid VB6/.NET Applications
• Deploying Interop UserControls with RegFree-COM
• Interop Forms Toolkit - Your New Best Friend
• Implementing Infinite Undo/Redo

Developer Center:

• "Meet the Team" Page
• VS 2008 Beta 2 Samples
• LINQ Hands On Labs for VS 2008 Beta 2

Fresh headlines rotated through this month (these are also shown in the VS start page)

• MSDN Magazine: Unleash the power of query in Visual Studio 2008
• MSDN Magazine: Basic Instincts: Query Comprehensions
• Get the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
• Download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
• Download the Visual Basic LINQ Hands-on Labs for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
• New Version of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005
• Line and Shape Controls in the New Power Packs Release
• Refactor! for Visual Basic 2008 Beta 2

Community submitted articles section started:

• Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation
• Sending Emails in .NET with the System.Net.Mail Namespace

Webcasts since July 1:

• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Enjoy!