February 2008 - Posts

Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
27 February 08 08:27 AM

Even though Visual Studio 2008 has been available since mid-November, today is the official Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 launch event down in Los Angeles. If you aren't at the event in L.A. you can tune into the virtual Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, VS2008, Community, DevCenter

Webcast on VB6 Migration to .NET
26 February 08 02:48 PM

I just added another webcast for March 28th on VB6 migration to .NET to the list of March madness webcasts I'll be doing . Rob Windsor and I will be presenting a bonus webcast on VB6 to .NET migration. If you're involved in a migration push and don't Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, VB6, Interop Toolkit, DevCenter, Webcast

Simple Validation with LINQ to SQL Classes
25 February 08 05:04 PM

In the last few posts on LINQ to SQL I've showed how to set up an object model using the O/R designer and how to handle a couple data binding scenarios with Comboboxes here and here . Last post on this topic we implemented a one-to-many data entry form Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 27 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

Support for SQL 2008 Data Types Coming into LINQ to SQL
22 February 08 05:22 PM

Check it out, on the ADO.NET Team blog Faisal Mohamood, a PM on the LINQ to SQL team, posted on the new features you can expect to see added to LINQ to SQL. This includes support for new data types coming in SQL 2008. Enjoy! Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: LINQ, SQL Server, DevCenter, Data

Join Me in San Francisco Tonight!
20 February 08 09:16 AM

I'll be speaking tonight at the grand re-opening of Bay.NET at their new location near Macy's downtown (Powell St. BART station). What's New in Visual Basic 9 When: Wednesday, 2/20/2008 at 6:30 PM Where: Microsoft San Francisco Office, 835 Market Street, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community

One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL
19 February 08 03:11 PM

In previous posts this month I showed how to use LINQ to SQL classes with a couple different Combobox data binding scenarios. (You can read those articles here and here .) Today I'm going to show you how to create a one-to-many data entry form (and we'll Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 28 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

New Community Article - Windows Workflow 101
18 February 08 09:34 AM

We just released a new article by VB MVP , Maurice DeBeijer on getting started with Windows Workflow called Windows Workflow 101 . This is the first in a series of Workflow articles by Maurice. If you're struggling with how to use this technology in your Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Article, Workflow

LINQ Enabled Personal Web Site Starter Kit
13 February 08 08:03 AM

Jim Wooley , VB MVP, has rewritten the original Personal Web Starter Kit using LINQ for the data tier rather than stored procedures and ADO.NET and has put it up onto Code Gallery . The starter kit manages images in a SQL database by album. You can download Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, ASP.NET

Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series)
12 February 08 10:38 AM

I'll be doing a series of webcasts next month that you should check out if you're trying to get started with the new features in Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. (BTW, if you haven't downloaded Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 Express what are Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 12 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Webcast, XML

Using XML Literals in Code Generation
11 February 08 01:13 PM

A while back I showed a very simple way you could use XML Literals to generate code. In my previous life we used XSLT to do our code generation of different layers in our applications but as I worked with XML literals in Visual Basic 9, I came to realize Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

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

Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL
07 February 08 09:00 AM

In yesterday's post I showed you how to bind LINQ to SQL classes to a Combobox in order to filter records on a one-to-many form. Today I want to show you how how you can use a Combobox as a lookup list in order to edit values on a record. We'll be building Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 14 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL
06 February 08 02:07 PM

In a previous post I showed how to set up related data binding using ComboBoxes against DataSets and a loyal reader asked how this would be done using LINQ and Visual Studio 2008. I assume he meant LINQ to SQL in this case, because remember LINQ can be Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 16 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

What's New in Visual Basic 9
01 February 08 04:30 PM

I'm here in Denver, Colorado where the sun shines bright and the snow is white! I spoke at a Microsoft event yesterday on Visual Basic 9 language features including LINQ and XML Literals and I had a great turn out for the session. I uploaded the deck Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 15 Comments    

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