November 2007 - Posts

Last Day at DevTeach
30 November 07 09:50 AM

All good things come to an end. My last day at DevTeach I filled in for a speaker that got caught at the border at the last minute and presented a session focusing completely on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 9. I went through a lot of examples and got really Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

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

DevTeach Part Deux
29 November 07 11:08 AM

My second day at the conference has been the best so far. First off, I presented a great session on "What's New in Visual Basic 9" and it was a hit! It may have been because of the beer that was available outside ;-) but I think it was because of all Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

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

First Day at DevTeach
28 November 07 08:49 AM

I'm up in Vancouver at DevTeach and I have to say that so far it's been a great conference! I did a demo of my Visual Studio Tip of the Day browser and built an add-in ( like I showed here ) for part of the keynote with Ken Levy of the VSX team . This Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Interop Toolkit, DevCenter, VSX

Visual Studio Tip of the Day - Let's Build an Add-In
21 November 07 11:00 AM

Yesterday the VS Ecosystem team released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and the Visual Studio 2008 shell . The VS 2008 SDK contains full native Visual Basic support and contains many VB samples. What was in the VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK is now included Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, VSX

Visual Studio 2008 Released!
19 November 07 09:37 AM

Early holiday gifts from Microsoft! Today we announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5! Come and get it: Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition (FREE) .NET Framework 3.5 (FREE) Visual Studio 2008 Trials Also check out the new redesigned Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 17 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter

Merging XML using Visual Basic 9
13 November 07 10:06 AM

I made some modifications to my Visual Studio Tip of the Day browser application I created last week. There I am downloading the RSS feed from Sara's blog and saving it to disk so that I only retrieve the next tip every 24 hours. However, the RSS only Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 8 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, DevCenter, XML

Visual Basic WPF Samples - The Concept of Content
13 November 07 10:02 AM

If you missed Young's post on the VB Team blog , he has started helping Patrick convert all the samples from Charles Petzold's WPF book (Applications = Code + Markup). Evan Lim who currently teaches WPF & Blend courses at Foothill Community College Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, DevCenter

Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst
08 November 07 03:22 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst , a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He shows us how the new Option Infer works and how Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Channel9

Visual Studio Tip of the Day Browser
07 November 07 02:14 PM

I'm sitting here with writer's block on an article I'm supposed to be writing so in order to coax the technical writing muse I decided to write an application I've been meaning to do for over a month. If you didn't know, on Sara's blog she has a category Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 10 Comments    

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

I'm Speaking at DevTeach Nov 26th - 30th
06 November 07 02:00 PM

I'll be speaking at DevTeach in Vancouver November 26th - 30th. This is a great conference that I've been speaking at for a few years. Normally in Montreal (in the Spring), they're starting to hit the other major Canadian cities. The level of speakers Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking

Visual Studio 2008 to be Released this Month!
05 November 07 05:00 PM

If you missed the BIG announcement , Soma announced during the keynote at TechEd Barcelona that we will release Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 by the end of November 2007! Yeeehaaa! I'm so exited to get the final version of VS into all Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter

Content Rollup For September and October
05 November 07 08:00 AM

Here's 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. We launched a new UI on the Developer Center and it's a great place to visit Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

New Community Article - Using Business Objects with WCF
02 November 07 12:00 PM

There's a new article up on the VB Dev Center by Rob Windsor , a follow up from his first Getting Started with WCF article, called Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation . Rob explains how to serialize your own custom business Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Community, WCF, Article

New Visual Basic LINQ to XML Videos Released!
01 November 07 03:00 PM

We just released a new set of How-Do-I videos in our LINQ series on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic. These 4 new videos will help get you up to speed on using this new language feature in Visual Basic 2008. They walk you through the basics of LINQ to XML, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: LINQ, VS2008, Videos, XML