October 2008 - Posts

HAPPY HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
31 October 08 01:40 PM

My favorite holiday is Halloween and I'm throwing a huge party at my super-freaky haunted house. I've got the whole place decorated -- which was a challenge to get done on time because I attended PDC. I drove back yesterday afternoon and I decorated until Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Personal

More PDC Tidbits, Data Everywhere, Visual Studio 2010 CTP
29 October 08 04:07 PM

Day 3 at PDC is off to a great start so far. I just attended a session on the architecture and development of the content delivery infrastructure and Silverlight client for the NBC Olympics online . It's pretty amazing how they pulled it off but one of Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter, ADO.NET Data Services

I Landed at PDC in Los Angeles
29 October 08 10:33 AM

What a busy week! Every time I sat down to write this blog post, someone would sit down and want to chat with me about architecture, languages or data. PDC is so big and there's so much to talk about with people and there are so many experts here. I've Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, DevCenter

Learn How to Program with Small Basic
24 October 08 02:49 PM

Microsoft Developer Labs has released Small Basic , a simple programming language based on BASIC and a development environment that runs on Windows XP or Vista (written in WPF on the .NET Framework 3.5). There's good documentation and examples as well Read More...

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Filed under: DevCenter, SmallBasic

Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
22 October 08 09:12 AM

If you missed it, yesterday we released a new community submitted article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by MVP Alessandro Del Sole . In this article learn how to control the Vista operating Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Office

Channel 9 Interview: ADO.NET Data Services in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
21 October 08 01:17 PM

In this interview Saaid Kahn, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team (and former member of the VB Team), shows us how to create an n-tier application against a database using ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and an Entity Data Model, both Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Channel9, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

Editing Data from Two Tables in a Single DataGridView
15 October 08 06:31 PM

I've had a lot of questions lately on how to display data from two separate tables in the database into a single DataGridView for editing. It sure would be nice if all our data was in a single table, but in reality most of the time it's not. Basically Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 24 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, SQL Server, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework

Holland Tour
14 October 08 10:23 AM

On Wednesday the conference organizers of the SDN Conference took the speakers on a Holland Tour. We left the conference center and hotel in the morning and headed to Rotterdam . I got to ride with Maurice in his little green Miata, very fun!  The Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Personal, Speaking, Community

SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM

Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

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

First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM

I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, Entity Framework

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MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
01 October 08 06:49 PM

Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center . I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October issue of MSDN Magazine . I've been managing the content for the Basic Instincts column for a little over a year now where we rotate writers from the Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, LINQ, Community, Article, XML, Data