Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series)

Published 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 you waiting for!?)

If you're interested in seeing what's new in the Visual Basic 9 language then join me for the always popular:
 
Live From RedBethmond: VB9 - What's New in Visual Basic 9
3/14/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 3/14/2008 10:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes
Visual Basic is evolving in dramatic ways to help people be more productive when developing enterprise, data-aware applications. In this Webcast we'll go over the major new features in Visual Basic 9, and how these new features can help you write applications much more rapidly than ever before. You will be introduced to XML Literals, Object Initializers, Anonymous Types, Type Inference, Extension Methods, Lambda Expressions and much improved IntelliSense. We'll take a look at how these features tie into Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and how working with XML in Visual Basic provides ultimate performance and productivity. 
 
If you keep saying "Man, I really should learn LINQ" or "I wonder if I'm writing this LINQ query correctly?", then you'll want to join me for this one (UPDATED NEW DATE/TIME:)

Live From Redmond: VB9 - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic
3/14/2008 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes
LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and it allows you to query over things like objects, databases and XML in a standard way with a new syntax available in the latest versions of Visual Basic and C#. In this Webcast you will learn how to get started writing LINQ queries using the simple but powerful query syntax available in Visual Basic. We'll walk through a variety of basic queries as well look at aggregates and groups over different data sources. You will also see how writing queries over XML using specific Visual Basic syntax like XML literals and axis properties can help you be much more productive when working with XML.

UPDATED 2/26: Webcast added! 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 know where to start this webcast is for you. We'll show some proven strategies as well as walk through the Interop Forms Toolkit which can dramatically speed up development in a phased migration approach.

Live From RedBethmond: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET
3/28/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes 
Visual Basic (VB) 6 was used by millions of developers world-wide to build applications ranging from thousands to millions of lines of code representing significant organizational investments. The path from VB 6 to .NET has not always been clear, there is no one size fits all approach. We’ll cut to the chase, exploring the pros and cons of each option using real world examples. You will leave this webcast with the framework and tools to develop the right strategy for your organization to leverage your existing investments while taking advantage of the power and productivity the .NET Framework provides. Presented By Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community PM With special guest Rob Windsor, Visual Basic MVP

Do you wade through the XML DOM all day? Interested in dumping XSLT for a real language? Or are you just interested in some highly productive language syntax? Then join me for this webcast: (UPDATED NEW DATE/TIME:)

Live From RedBethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic
4/4/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes
XML permeates every modern application today from XHTML, XAML, RSS, SOAP, Office Open XML just to name a few. Even your Visual Studio project files and configuration settings are XML files. The latest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008 supports a new language syntax aimed at making you much more productive when working with XML. In this Webcast we'll walk through language features like XML literals, embedded expressions and axis properties in order to create, query and transform XML with this powerful but easy to use syntax. Say goodbye to XSLT and hello to Visual Basic 9. 

I hope to see you all there! It'll be fun to see if I recognize your user names from the comments here on the blog. If you can't make it live, the On-Demand downloads will be available the day after the webcast.

Enjoy!

by Beth Massi
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# Airline Travel » Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series) said on February 12, 2008 2:48 PM:

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# ccatto said on February 13, 2008 7:50 AM:

Hey Now Beth,

They look great & I love webcasts (great way to learn). I signed up for them all. Fridays in March!

Thx,

Catto

# Paulo João de Souza said on February 24, 2008 11:13 AM:

Sou Brasileiro, resido em São Paulo – São Paulo.

Tenho acompanhado seus treinamentos e também digo que sou muito grato, você tem além dos altos conhecimento uma simplicidade em  expor seus conhecimento,  Obrigado.

I am Brazilian, I inhabit in São Paulo - São Paulo.

I have folloied its training and also I say that I am very grateful, you has beyond the high knowledge a simplicity in displaying its knowledge,  Debtor.

# Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB said on February 26, 2008 5:54 PM:

I just added another webcast for March 28th on VB6 migration to .NET to the list of March madness webcasts

# Noticias externas said on February 26, 2008 6:15 PM:

I just added another webcast for March 28th on VB6 migration to .NET to the list of March madness webcasts

# Rusty said on February 26, 2008 11:04 PM:

Would like to attend, but job won't let me... hope they will be recorded and available for download afterwards.

# Beth Massi said on February 26, 2008 11:16 PM:

Hi Rusty,

They all will be available for on-demand viewing the day after the webcast. :-)

Cheers,

-B

# Subhash Subramanyam said on February 28, 2008 10:16 PM:

Hi Massi,

 Kudos for your quick walk through on LINQ. It helps developers to understand the nuts and bolts of LINQ within few minutes. Keenly awaiting your March Madness Webcasts..

Regards,

Subhash Subramanyam

# saleem said on March 2, 2008 7:00 AM:

hi , my name is  saleem

can you answer my qestions please

1- i made a simple media player to play sound and video i just want to know how can i get all file names

i selected and pressed enter

i tried a startupnextinstance event

and i got all file names but this was a very slow way and doesn't work well when you have alot of files (more than 100)

i think i should use somthing exist in windows

i think  somthing related to user32.dll or another file

please can you tell me what the way is

( i want the same way that is used in windows media player to open many files)

2-i can drag and drop files from explorer to my play list using dragdrop event but this doesn't work when i drag files from openfiledialog to my playlist

my listbox doesn't feel dragdrop event

3- hoe can i next the song using nextmediabutton

while my application is minimized and i am working  on another program

4- sorry if my English is not very good

and thank you for every thing

# Jose Aguilar's Blog said on March 5, 2008 4:51 PM:

Beth Massi, Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team, will be doing a series of webcasts on Visual Basic 9. They will be mostly about the new features of VB9, including one about LINQ in VB that I am particularly interested in. Another one

# Mercedes said on March 19, 2008 2:29 PM:

Are they any shortcuts that can be leveraged with LINQ when migrating from ADO to ADO.NET?

# Beth Massi said on March 19, 2008 5:11 PM:

Hi Mercedes,

You may want to check out this series of posts that the VBTeam did that goes through converting SQL queries to LINQ queries.

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/Converting+SQL+to+LINQ/default.aspx

HTH,

-B

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About Beth Massi

Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
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