June 2009 - Posts

Community Article: Getting Started with .NET RIA Services
30 June 09 12:44 PM

We just published another community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by Maurice de Beijer , Visual Basic MVP, on .NET RIA Services. Maurice explains what they are and how they help you build Silverlight line-of-business applications. Sample Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Silverlight, DevCenter, Article

Are you a “VB”?
26 June 09 05:40 PM

At the MVP summit this year Kathleen and I asked MVPs using Visual Basic what kinds of applications they’re building, what other technologies they’re using, what their favorite features are, and more. Many thanks to all of you who humored me! The result? Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks
25 June 09 03:34 PM

If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on the Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Basic to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Article, Office, VSTO

Misfit Geek Podcast on the Future of VB
22 June 09 04:51 PM

Joe Stagner’s second podcast is up and this time he’s interviewing the one and only Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB team . Joe pins her down on what the future of VB really is and discusses perceptions, parity and co-evolution. It’s a great interview so check Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM

Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, VS2010

WPF Data Binding Samples on Code Gallery
17 June 09 12:41 PM

One of the many samples released for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that you should be aware of are examples of WPF data binding against Entity Data Models. You can find some easy to follow samples here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFDatabinding This sample Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, DevCenter, Data, Entity Framework, VS2010

Visual Studio 2010 Topic of the Week
16 June 09 09:32 AM

Kathleen McGrath has started a series where she takes Visual Studio 2010 walkthroughs and demonstrates them with a screen-cast each week on Channel 9 . If you’re just digging into the VS2010 Beta you should definitely check these out to help get you started Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, VS2010, VSTO

Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 10
05 June 09 03:55 PM

Visual Basic 10 (in Visual Studio 2010) is getting a new feature called Collection Initializers which contains the same functionality as the C# 3 feature but it takes it one step further. Let me show you what I mean. Visual Basic 9 (in Visual Studio 2008) Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, VS2010

New Podcast Series on MisfitGeek.com
02 June 09 11:09 AM

Joe Stagner , ASP.NET/Web community guru, has just launched a new podcast on MisfitGeek.com . In this first episode he talks with Scott Hunter, a Senior Program Manager Lead on the ASP.NET Team, about the future of Web Forms and how Web Forms compares Read More...

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Filed under: Community, ASP.NET, DevCenter, Podcast

Back from our Yosemite Vacation
01 June 09 09:30 PM

Last week Alan and I headed up to Yosemite National Park with my sister and her boyfriend and Robert Green (VSTO MVP and log-time friend) and his wife, Colette. We had an absolutely fabulous time and I recommend that everyone in the world come visit. Read More...

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Filed under: Personal