June 2008 - Posts

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9
30 June 08 02:12 PM
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 . (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly Read More...
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Displaying Data Validation Messages in WPF
27 June 08 03:57 PM
As you can probably tell from my last couple posts I've been working with WPF in different data scenarios. Yesterday I was playing with data validation in WPF and .NET 3.5 which is pretty slick. In this article I'll walk through how to hook up validation Read More...
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Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ
24 June 08 03:29 PM
In my last post on this subject I explored creating WPF UI's dynamically using XML literals. The one part that bugged me a bit was that even though the UI was dynamic, we were using a fixed object model of our customer (using LINQ to SQL classes). I wanted Read More...
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ACM Awards
23 June 08 11:18 AM
On Saturday evening I had the privilege of attending the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Awards presentation held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. I must say it was humbling and exciting to see such amazing computer scientists all in one Read More...
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Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
13 June 08 12:50 PM
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows Read More...
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Dynamic UI with WPF and LINQ
12 June 08 04:51 PM
Lately I've been getting my hands deep into WPF with my line-of-business (LOB)/data-based application mind set. I'm taking a different approach to the technology resisting the urge to put on my amateur-designer hat and instead purely focus on data, data-binding, Read More...
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I Survived TechEd
09 June 08 04:20 PM
I feel like I need a T-shirt that says "I survived TechEd". It was my first time at TechEd and no one can really prepare you for how much work and play takes place at a huge conference like that. I had a BLAST. Our VB6 to .NET migration talks went well Read More...
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