July 2008 - Posts

Comparing Two Open XML Packages with Open XML Diff
31 July 08 04:18 PM
Yesterday I received an email from another employee here at Microsoft to check out this tool called Open XML Diff that he was working on. His name is Pranav Wagh and he just released another drop of the tool which you can read about oh his blog . You Read More...
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Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
30 July 08 07:30 PM
About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released . The SDK provides strongly typed document part access to Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents. The SDK has been a CTP for a while, but last month version 1.0 was finally Read More...
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Handy Visual Studio Add-In to View Office 2007 Files
29 July 08 03:21 PM
Last month when I was in Redmond I mentioned to a colleague that I really liked the Open XML format that Office 2007 was using now and how I had been playing with the format and LINQ to XML . He pointed me to the VSTO Power Tools which contains a Visual Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant
28 July 08 03:16 PM
I just posted an interview screencast on Channel 9 . In this interview, Jared Parsons , a Developer on the Visual Basic IDE, shows us the P/Invoke Interop Assistant available on CodePlex . The tool helps with converting unmanaged C code to managed P/Invoke Read More...
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WPF Forms over Data: 2 More Videos!
24 July 08 06:39 PM
I couldn't wait for the content pages to prop onto MSDN to tell you that I just uploaded two more WPF Forms over Data videos and code samples onto Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfdatavideos , videos 3 and 4. Video #3 shows how to create Read More...
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Channel9 Interview: Visual Basic Language Design Meeting
23 July 08 06:02 PM
I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group Read More...
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Keeping the Dev Centers Fresh with Social Bookmarking
22 July 08 12:03 PM
Last week Chris Slemp from MSDN/TechNet interviewed me and 3 other top bookmarkers about how we use the Social Bookmarking Preview and how we'd like to see it evolve. In this post he also has some interesting stats and analysis on how poeple are using Read More...
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Community Article: Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 1
17 July 08 02:16 PM
This week on the VB Dev Center we're featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de Beijer (VB MVP) on Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation . Maurice has a great wiki as well that you should check out if Read More...
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Silicon Valley Code Camp Registration Open
15 July 08 10:45 AM
Peter Kellner (ASP.NET MVP) and crew are at it again this year organizing the 3rd annual Silicon Valley Code Camp. Once again, Foothill College has stepped up and is providing free use of their facility on Saturday and Sunday November 8th and 9th this Read More...
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Auto-Reply: Out of Office on Vacation
07 July 08 08:00 AM
Yes, even Beth Massi gets a vacation. This year I have the pleasure of attending Nick Landry's (Mobile MVP) wedding in Jamaica. It's my first time in the Caribbean. This is what I call community baby! ;-) I'm actually writing this before I leave and queuing Read More...
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NINE Questions
05 July 08 11:30 AM
Chris Williams (VB MVP) is running around the net asking people nine questions. I'm one of the people he interviewed and he's got a good gang of other people up on his blog as well so check them out . I was bummed to hear that Rocky doesn't have any tattoos Read More...
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TechEd Panel: VB XML Literals for C# Developers
03 July 08 10:00 AM
This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the SQL Data team. I thought it was a pretty funny panel description they came up with, ala Dr. Strangelove : VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I Read More...
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WPF Forms over Data Video Series
02 July 08 08:11 AM
Yesterday I created a Code Gallery project with a couple videos on WPF data-based app development in Visual Studio 2008. I’m starting a series on WPF directed at LOB developers building data-oriented applications. These videos show how to work with data, Read More...
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