January 2008 - Posts

Visual Basic Samples on Code Gallery
29 January 08 03:57 PM
Yesterday Soma announced The MSDN Code Gallery where Microsoft employees and the community can post samples and resources they want to share. This is a great site to use to share code, docs, videos, or any other content without having to manage a source-controlled Read More...
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Visual Basic in the HOOOOUUUUSSSSEEEE
25 January 08 06:06 PM
Man! I haven't blogged all week and I'm going through withdrawal. I've been up in Redmond with the gang and back-to-back meetings all day and meet-and-greet dinners every night make it hard to have time to answer emails let alone blog. But now I'm up Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense
18 January 08 09:00 AM
Yesterday I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard . He also shows the differences between Read More...
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Taking Your SQL Knowledge and Applying it to LINQ
14 January 08 05:21 PM
If you haven't seen it yet, Bill Horst has a great series of posts on the VB Team blog on Converting SQL to LINQ . In this series he walks through, step by step, how to translate SQL queries that we've been writing for so long into Visual Basic LINQ queries. Read More...
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Get LINQ in Your Brain Over at ThinqLinq.com
10 January 08 05:11 PM
Visual Basic MVP, Jim Wooley , just launched a site called ThinqLinq that's completly written in Visual Basic using LINQ and according to Jim, only took him 2 hours to write! To quote Jim: "The site is a testimate to the power of LINQ and the RAD capabilities Read More...
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I'll be Speaking in Phoenix and Denver this Month
08 January 08 02:50 PM
Tim Heuer and Joe Shirey are putting together free developer and architect focused events in Phoenix and Denver and I'll be there speaking on all things new and good in Visual Basic 9. I plan on showing practical examples of LINQ and Visual Basic's unique Read More...
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The New TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008
07 January 08 07:41 PM
In my previous post on TableAdapters and Transactions I showed a couple techniques on how to perform hierarchical updates inside a transaction when you have multiple related DataTables in your DataSet. The example I gave here shows how to use database Read More...
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Content Rollup for November and December
04 January 08 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 and our blogs these past couple of months to make it easier to find. Remember you can also grab rss feeds for Downloads, How-Do-I videos Read More...
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I'll Be Speaking at Code Camp in Victoria, BC
03 January 08 03:23 PM
I'll be speaking at the Victoria Code Camp on January 26th so if you're in the area and you have nothing else to do on your Saturday come on up to beautiful Victoria. This is going to be a GREAT code camp! I did the same sessions at DevTeach in Vancouver Read More...
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Migration from VB6 to .NET on dnrTV
02 January 08 01:52 PM
There's still a lot of Visual Basic 6 systems running the world and if you're one of the developers maintaining those systems you may be looking at migration strategies to move to .NET. You don't have to take on a complete rewrite of your system, there Read More...
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