August 2008 - Posts

Channel 9 Interview: New Features for VS2008 Office Projects in SP1
29 August 08 01:08 PM

I just posted an interview with Kris Makey , a Developer on the Office Client team. Here he shows us a couple new features of Office projects in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . First he demonstrates a new error logging feature that will log any end-user install Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, Community, Channel9, Office

More Videos on ASP.NET MVC
27 August 08 09:18 AM

Bill Burrows has released a new set of videos on the ASP .NET MVC Framework - Preview 4 Update which provides an overview of the MVC pattern as well as shows you how to perform adds and updates against a database. If you missed them, you should first Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, ASP.NET, Videos, DevCenter

Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
22 August 08 03:05 PM

I just posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, VS2008, Community, Channel9

Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
21 August 08 01:48 PM

Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on Line-of-Business (LOB) application scenarios. I showed how you can use the same data sources with Winforms and WPF, walking through binding scenarios with DataSets, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Speaking, LINQ, Community, Winforms, DevCenter, Data, N-tier

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Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1
19 August 08 08:09 PM

One of the things I was really missing from WPF when I started to dig into data binding was feature consistency between the BindingListCollectionView and the Winforms BindingSource I had grown to love. The BindingListCollectionView provides the navigation, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 23 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data

Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
15 August 08 12:18 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Channel9, XML

Office Developer Videos - Laughing and Learning at the Same Time
14 August 08 05:10 PM

Harry Miller , programming writer for office development, has been producing office video tips on the VSTO team blog and they've been featuring on the Office Development portal on MSDN . I have to say the last couple videos are hilarious and extremely Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, Office

Sara Finishes Her Visual Studio Tips Book
11 August 08 08:51 AM

One of my good friends Sara Ford finally finished her Visual Studio Tips book , based on her super popular tip-of-the-day blog series she started over a year ago when I first started Microsoft. The amazing thing about the book is that she's dedicating Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VS2005, VS2008, Community

Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1
08 August 08 05:12 PM

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele, a PM on the VS Pro Tools team. In this interview Milind shows us the improvements made to the tooling in Visual Studio SP1 for occasionally connected clients as well as the new data type support Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, Community, SQL Server, Channel9

Silverlight Slider Puzzle of Yours Truly
01 August 08 09:32 AM

A Bay Area local Silverlight expert, Cal Schrotenboer , created a cool slider puzzle from a picture of me. Check it out! I have not been able to solve it, but I admit I stink at these things... not enough patience or time in the day ;-) Also check out Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Community, Silverlight