December 2008 - Posts

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC is Expiring -- Here's the Fix!
19 December 08 11:08 AM

The first episode in a series on VS 2010 was posted this week on Channel 9. The series is put on by some of my favorite niners; Brian Keller, Jason Olson, Drew Robbins and Jonathan Carter. This episode not only shows you how to download and set up the Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: DevCenter, VS2010

Working From Home - In Redmond!?!
19 December 08 09:20 AM

I've been up in Redmond this week for a regularly scheduled office visit but instead of 5 days of meetings I only could get 3 days in. This is because on Wednesday night it started to snow! Yes, it snows in Seattle! I have been coming up here (and lived Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Personal

Attaching a Local SQL Server Database Using sqlcmd
18 December 08 02:35 PM

I've been getting asked a lot lately about how to easily attach a local SQL Server/Express database file (.MDF file) to an instance of SQL Server (any edition) . In most of my samples I distribute local SQL Server databases and use user instance connection Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 20 Comments    

Filed under: SQL Server, DevCenter, Data

SmallBasic Version 0.2 Released
18 December 08 09:00 AM

I've played a bit with SmallBasic and blogged about it before -- it's great for anyone just learning how to program. Yesterday Vijaye announced the release of the second version of SmallBasic which includes some improvements that I've been waiting for Read More...

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Filed under: SmallBasic

Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables
17 December 08 12:43 PM

We just released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain , called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables . In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

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

Formatting Data in WPF Controls
12 December 08 04:32 PM

One of the basic things that we need to do as business application developers is to make sure that data being displayed to a user makes sense to them and that they know what type of data something is when they are making edits. In every business application Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 19 Comments    

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

Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Basic Key Bindings Poster
11 December 08 11:11 PM

The VB Team just anounced the VB Key Bindings poster for VS 2008 . Sweet!! I didn't even know about some of these keyboard short-cuts. Thanks to Lisa on the VB Team for providing these. Enjoy! Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter

Master-Details with Entity Framework Explicit Load
10 December 08 04:45 PM

Unlike LINQ to SQL, in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 explicit loading is the default behavior in the Entity Framework. When a query is executed within the Entity Framework, the entities returned by the query are fully accessible, but any associated Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 21 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework

Why I Love Blogging
09 December 08 11:34 AM

A member of the developer community, Andreas Håkansson (a.k.a The Code Junkie) , is running a series of online interviews with some folks like myself and asking us questions about blogging and why we love it so much. Check out my interview with him Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Community

Happy Birthday Visual Basic Tips & Tricks Community!
08 December 08 05:01 PM

Today, December 8th, is the 10 year anniversary of the Italian Visual Basic Tips and Tricks community site . HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you all and thank you for fostering the Italian Visual Basic community all these years! Some members of the VB Team created Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

Back from DevTeach, Montreal
08 December 08 11:24 AM

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at DevTeach in Montreal. Last time I was in Montreal it was in the Spring so the weather was quite different. ;-) However, it was pretty nice nonetheless -- no hard rain or snow, just really really cold. (Normally Read More...

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Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter