June 2007 - Posts

How-Do-I Videos for Visual Basic on MSDN
29 June 07 03:06 PM
The How-Do-I videos page on MSDN went up today with all the new videos I created and a much better page layout! There's even a featured videos section at the top. Now that we've got the page up and three series' started, expect to see more regular releases Read More...
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Deploying Interop UserControls with RegFree-COM
27 June 07 08:12 PM
One of the features of the latest Interop Forms Toolkit is the ability to develop UserControls in addition to Windows Forms. In a previous post , I showed how to create a simple Interop UserControl. I also have a video here on creating them , and one Read More...
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Today's Live From Redmond Webcast Rescheduled
27 June 07 07:46 AM
Amanda Silver came down with a nasty sickness last night so we just had to reschedule her Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML talk for this Tuesday July 3rd. If you're already registered then you're good to go for next week and automated Read More...
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Visual Basic Interop Video Series is Live!
25 June 07 07:23 PM
This how-to video series is focused on the Interop Forms Toolkit and working with Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 6 together. The Interop Forms Toolkit allows Visual Basic developers to migrate their Visual Basic 6 applications over to .NET using a Read More...
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Object Binding Video Series is Live!
25 June 07 07:17 PM
This how-to video series is focused on more advanced data binding techniques using object binding in Visual Basic 2005. The series walks through creating business objects and how to associate them in one-to-many relationships, how to provide searching Read More...
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Forms over Data Video Series #2 is Live!
25 June 07 07:12 PM
I just uploaded more videos to Microsoft Downloads! I wanted to post the direct links here and the matching code downloads for all of you immediately even though MSDN will be creating a pretty landing page like this one for them this week, probably tomorrow Read More...
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LINQ Cookbook
25 June 07 06:04 PM
If you haven't seen it, the VB Team has started a LINQ Cookbook on the VB Team Blog . If you have suggestions for "recipes" feel free to contact me or the team directly ! Read More...
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I'm Up in Redmond This Week
21 June 07 11:15 PM
I've been up in Redmond all week filming videos of the VB team and having a lot of productive back-to-back meetings :-). We're going to start releasing these videos on Channel9 once the editing is completed and I think you're going to really enjoy them. Read More...
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Interop Forms Toolkit - Your New Best Friend
13 June 07 07:41 PM
I've been heads down this week (re)learning an older technology -- Visual Basic 6! With all the things to focus on like this , this and this you're probably asking "Um, Beth, WHY!?". It's because I've really been learning the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow: Live From Redmond - LINQ Best Practices!
12 June 07 07:11 PM
Join Lisa and the rest of the VB Team as she walks us though some best practices for LINQ. This web cast will explore best practices for writing easy to read, consumable queries, including naming, usage, and performance ideas. It starts at 9AM PST. Hope Read More...
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Building a Secure Login Form (Parameterized Queries Part 2)
06 June 07 10:48 PM
In my first post on parameterized queries I built a simple login form that really was a contrived example meant to showcase how to use the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard to configure a parameterized query. However, since I opened myself up here, I Read More...
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What's Happening at TechEd?
06 June 07 01:38 PM
Charlie's got a great post of his first day's experience in the TechEd expo. Looks like Amanda is still prepping for her demos . And Jay is just way too excited as he takes us on a tour of Visual Studio 2008 . (They announced the official name for Orcas Read More...
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Live From Redmond Webcast Starts Now! - Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0
06 June 07 08:56 AM
It's starting now, so come join us ! In this webcast Jonathan takes a look at how you can use the Interop Toolkit to migrate your VB 6 applications to the .NET platform, and also discusses strategies you can use to migrate your VB 6 applications to the Read More...
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