February 2009 - Posts

Last Day at VSLive! San Francisco
26 February 09 05:00 PM

I just finished my last talk of the conference on LINQ to XML and it was lots of fun as always. I've spoken a lot on this topic in the past but talks always come out slightly different. This time it was great, I got through all the demos and showed a Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter

Live From San Francisco, it's VSLive!
25 February 09 04:33 PM

I'm here at VSLive! at the BEAUTIFUL Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. I love this hotel. Lots of great memories here. And besides the funky architecture of the buildings, there's a cool atrium that has a mesmerizing fountain in the Read More...

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I'm Speaking at VSLive! San Francisco Next Week!
18 February 09 07:40 PM

I'll be speaking in my own home town of San Francisco next week for VSLive ! so if you're in the area you should register and come on out! There's an amazing line up of speakers and sessions . Also when you register you get free access to the MSDN Developer Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, Community, DevCenter

Programming Entity Framework Book
17 February 09 06:11 PM

Julie Lerman's Programming Entity Framework book just arrived today! I've been skimming around it all day and so far Chapter 8 is my favorite but I'm sure once I get to Chapter 14 that will take the cake :-) Thanks Julie! (especially for all the great Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter, Entity Framework

Rocky Mountain Tech "Tri-fecta" this Saturday
17 February 09 11:09 AM

I'll be speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-fecta this Saturday Feb 21st in Denver, CO. So what the heck is a Tech Tri-fecta, you ask? It's three different technology families, all on the same day at the same place at the same time.  It’s Read More...

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Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals
16 February 09 09:20 AM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, ASP.NET, Videos, Channel9, XML

OBA Part 3 - Storing and Reading Data in Word Documents
12 February 09 05:55 PM

In my last few posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data In this post I'm Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, SharePoint, OBA

OBA Part 2 - Building an Outlook Client against LOB Data
07 February 09 02:36 PM

In the last couple posts we've been talking about an Office Business Application (OBA) architecture for the new Northwind Traders and how to expose line-of-business (LOB) data , in our case the Northwind SQL database, using ADO.NET Data Services . Today Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 9 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, OBA

OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data
03 February 09 02:23 PM

Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our O ffice B usiness A pplication for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, OBA

Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM

The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA