December 2007 - Posts

Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic
19 December 07 01:30 PM

Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Channel9

Hanselminutes Podcast 92 - Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick
17 December 07 08:45 AM

Scott posted a podcast with with Paul Vick , Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz , Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Check it out ! Enjoy! Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community

Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained
14 December 07 01:57 PM

I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals. Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Channel9, XML

Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!
11 December 07 05:41 PM

I just released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum , PM on the VB IDE Team, where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, VS2008, Community, Channel9

New VB Community Article: Creating Visual Studio Add-ins
10 December 07 04:52 PM

Rod Paddock's latest Community Article is up on the Visual Basic Developer Center on Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins which first appeared in CoDe Magazine . Rod goes a little bit deeper than I did when building an add-in and shows how to work with the Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Article, VSX

Lambda Expression Fun with Visual Basic
07 December 07 11:05 AM

One of the Dev's, Matt Manela , on my VS community team has started playing with Visual Basic. I always enjoy reading the adventures a developer has learning a new language. You can read the excitement someone has as they learn. I think I'm the same way. Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, DevCenter

Mail Merging with Word, LINQ and XML Literals in VB
06 December 07 05:50 PM

I've mentioned before that you can use XML literals in VB 9 to do text merging so I figured it should be pretty easy to do some mail merging in Word the same way. Word 2007 (and Excel, etc) now uses a standard XML format called Office Open XML to describe Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):WordMailMerge.zip

Northwind Meets Virtual Earth - Generate VE Maps with LINQ
03 December 07 03:48 PM

With Visual Basic 9 and LINQ you can easily create XML from multiple data sources including relational data, other XML sources or any other queryable object. Since most modern systems interact with each other in some form of XML the possibilities are Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, ASP.NET, DevCenter, Article, XML

Attachment(s):NorthwindVirtualEarth.zip