July 2007 - Posts

Amanda Silver will be Presenting VB and Silverlight on Second Life!
30 July 07 11:24 AM
If you haven't seen or experienced Second Life it's pretty amazing. It's an online, 3D, digital world. Visual Studio has created an island where you can come listen to live Microsoft presenters in this virtual world's live presentation theater! Amanda Read More...
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Some More Visual Basic on Channel9
27 July 07 01:18 PM
I just posted a couple more videos on Channel9 that you'll definitely want to check out! Thanks again to Kathleen for helping with the production. The first one Kit George walks us through some of his favorite VB9 language features that enable LINQ: In Read More...
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Come and Get It: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2!
26 July 07 05:02 PM
Today we released Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 as well as updates to the Visual Basic Samples , Express Samples and the LINQ Hands on Labs ! Check out the new headlines on the Visual Basic Developer Center . Everything is finally propagated! (What a long Read More...
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Amanda Rocks the House!
26 July 07 09:47 AM
Amanda Silver from the VB Team gave a kick butt presentation at TechReady , an internal conference for the Microsoft field people. Lot's of goodies in that presentation. We plan on doing a Channel9 video soon with Amanda showing off some of these goodies Read More...
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Metadata Programming and LINQ
24 July 07 08:44 PM
One of my favorite uses of LINQ is being able to query over metadata and use it to create flexible programs. Conversely, I also like to use LINQ to quickly create metadata about my objects. Metadata simply put is "data about data" or, for example, information Read More...
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More Visual Basic on Channel9
24 July 07 09:43 AM
I just posted Cameron McColl's Channel9 video where he talks about the performance improvements made in VS 2008. Check it out! In this in interview Cameron McColl, a Developer on the Visual Basic Team, shows us what kinds of performance improvements were Read More...
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Today: Live From Redmond Webcast - VS 2008 Performance Improvements
24 July 07 08:00 AM
Join the Visual Basic team's Cameron McColl as he walks us through the performance improvements that were made in Visual Studio 2008 in order to bring us a much better development experience. The webcast starts today at 9AM Pacific. Read More...
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New Community Articles on the VB Developer Center
23 July 07 09:34 AM
We just got a new section started on the Visual Basic Community page that showcases donated articles from the expert VB community. The first article Jim Duffy , a Visual Basic MVP, walks us through System.Net.Mail namespace . More articles from our MVPs Read More...
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Visual Basic on Channel9
21 July 07 10:18 AM
I just posted a couple screen casts/interviews on Channel9 you should definitely check out. I rounded up VB team members and influentials and asked them what their favorite Visual Studio 2008 features were and to give us all a demo of them! The first Read More...
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Making our Code More Dynamic
18 July 07 03:52 PM
In a previous post I showed how we could dynamically create a UI based on some XML, however the properties we wanted to set were known because we wrote the XML. I want to follow up with an extension of that sample that can dynamically set the properties Read More...
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An Example of Dynamic Programming in VB
17 July 07 07:26 PM
I've been asked by more than a few people in the community for an example of dynamic programming using Visual Basic. Most people understand the benefits of dynamic programming but are still unsure of the implementation details in VB. But for those readers Read More...
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LINQ Articles and More from the VB Team
17 July 07 12:17 PM
In case you haven't seen them, Scott Wisniewski and Kit George both have articles in MSDN Magazine . Kit's in the June issue with co-writer Ting Liang , and Scott is in the August issue . Kit talks about the basics of writing LINQ queries in Visual Basic Read More...
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TableAdapters and Transactions
11 July 07 02:34 PM
In my last post I showed you how to save related parent-child DataTables in proper update, insert and delete order by controlling how the TableAdapters saved the rows. In this next post I'll demonstrate how we can do this inside a database transaction. Read More...
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Working with TableAdapters and Related DataTables
10 July 07 02:28 PM
This past couple weeks I've been asked to help out a few people in the community work through a couple snags they were having with respect to the TableAdapters and how they should work in a multi-user application when updating related parent-child tables. Read More...
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Debugging Hybrid VB6/.NET Applications
03 July 07 05:11 PM
To wrap up this series of posts on hybrid applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit , I'd like to talk about debugging. There's a couple ways we can go about debugging with VB6 and Visual Studio and depending on where you're spending most of your coding Read More...
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Live From Redmond Webcast Today!
03 July 07 08:24 AM
Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML with Amanda Silver is starting in 30 minutes at 9AM PST. If you really want to dive deep into XML in VB then you don't want to miss this one: XML programming is central to writing data-centric applications; Read More...
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