September 2007 - Posts

Visual Basic Blog in Chinese!
27 September 07 10:01 AM

The Visual Basic test team members in Shanghai just started translating the Visual Basic Team blog into a Chinese version and has launched it on joycode (a popular technical blog site in China where Soma's blog is also translated and published). The team Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

New VB Dev Center Feeds
25 September 07 02:36 PM

I blogged last week about the new face lift that the Visual Basic Developer Center got and more features keep rolling out. This week we've got feeds on the three top panels for Headlines , How-Do-I Videos , and Downloads ! You can subscribe to any and Read More...

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Filed under: Community, Videos, DevCenter

Barton Learns Visual Basic!
20 September 07 06:15 PM

I recently convinced a friend of mine, Barton Friedland (founder of Bay.NET and rock star ), to take a look at the next version of Visual Basic -- 9.0 and specifically it's implementation of LINQ to XML and XML literals . Barton is a curious as a cat Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, DevCenter

Beth and Charlie Hit the Stage
20 September 07 05:16 PM

Today .NET Rocks posted the show I did with Charlie Calvert . I really enjoyed my time with Carl , Richard and Charlie. But I have to say that I really hate the sound of my voice over the phone, especially my laughing! Ick. And the picture they are using Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ, Community, DevCenter

Binding Multiple Combo Boxes to the Same Data Source
19 September 07 11:03 AM

Recently the VB Team received a customer bug submitted through Connect that had to do with binding multiple combo boxes to the same data source. The customer was reporting that once a selection was made in one combo, the other combos were also changing. Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Community, Winforms, DevCenter, Article

Another Way to LINQ
13 September 07 01:12 PM

I was reading another installment of ScottGu's articles on his blog about using LINQ to SQL in ASP.NET with the LinqDatasource. Scott does an amazing job of explaining things very clearly so if you haven't checked his posts out already then you definitely Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, DevCenter

.NET Rocks! on LINQ to XML
12 September 07 03:43 PM

Just to add to the plethora of content available on LINQ, I want to point out the latest .NET Rocks! show with Don Demsak (a.k.a DonXML - XML MVP) discussing LINQ to XML and XML literals in Visual Basic . Don also did a couple shows on dnrTV (here's Part Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML

How Do I Video Walk-Throughs from the Community
11 September 07 11:37 AM

A very generous VB community member, Bob Schild, sent these to me to post here to share with the rest of you. Bob took many of the How-Do-I videos and created his own walk throughs for them. So if it's easier for you to learn by reading instead of listening Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Videos

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Me and Charlie on .NET Rocks!
10 September 07 12:55 PM

So I'll be recording a .NET Rocks! show with Charlie Calvert (my developer community counterpart on the C# team) tomorrow for an (approximate) air date of September 20th. It's my first show so it should be very interesting. :-) Carl and Richard are awesome Read More...

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Filed under: Speaking, Community

Channel 9 Interview - John Stallo on Building N-Tier Applications in VS 2008
10 September 07 12:01 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with John Stallo talking about some cool tools in Visual Studio 2008 that will help you build simple N-Tier applications. Thanks to Kathleen again for helping with the shoot! This time we got fancy and used two Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, WCF, Channel9

Visual Basic Content Rollup for July and August
06 September 07 11:58 AM

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 Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter