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MSDN Unleashed Code is Posted!

benko — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:02:59 GMT

I’ve uploaded the code from this quarter’s MSDN events to http://www.benkotips.com/code. If you’re interested here’s the links from this quarter’s session on IE8 …

MSDN: Subscribing to content with Web Slices
Official IE team blog blogs.msdn.com/ie
IE developer center msdn.Com /ie
IE compatibility center msdn.Com /iecompat
MIX09 sessions.visitmix.com
Giorgio Sardo’s blog blogs.msdn.com/Giorgio

…and Win7 for Developers…

Windows 7 Engineering Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/e7
Windows 7 for Developers Blog http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/default.aspx
MSDN Windows Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows
Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+7
Windows 7 Taskbar: Developer Resources http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7Taskbar
Windows Ribbon Framework: Developer Resources http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ScenicRibbon

WPF Toolkit Webcast

benko — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:46:16 GMT

In this week's edition of BenkoTips Live & On Demand we talked about the WPF Toolkit and the Office Ribbon UI. We covered a lot of material and wrote a lot of code. To help out I'm providing a link here to both the webcast and the code so you can try it out. As usual there were a few links of interest that may help you get going including:

That LINQ Error...

benko — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:33:17 GMT

In today's webcast on LINQ in C# we looked at joining XML data with SQL Server and we got the error "Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementation of query operators except the Contains() operator" when we tried to run it. Looking deeper into what happened, it appears that the order in which collections are joined in LINQ is important. The original code looked like this:

What I found is that we need to specify that we're working with the XML resultset v in venues first and then join to e in events...basically reverse the order that the joined set linqs the two:

Weird...

Twin Cities Silverlight Demo Code posted!

benko — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:28:22 GMT

Thank you to everyone that joined me yesterday in Minneapolis at the Silverlight User Group. The demo code we wrote is up on the site & ready for download...the code from the Linq to Amazon to WPF to Silverlight for both the book finder as well as the flipper is available.