August 2009 - Posts

Come to Silicon Valley Code Camp October 3rd & 4th
27 August 09 03:00 PM

I’ll be speaking again this year at Silicon Valley Code Camp! Only 37 days left to register: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ This free event will be at Foothill College again this year.  There are over 100 sessions currently listed covering topics Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter

New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
26 August 09 10:18 AM

Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF data-entry forms with Entity Framework: How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework? How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, Videos, DevCenter, Data, Entity Framework

Using the ReportViewer with ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework
19 August 09 09:57 PM

The Winforms ReportViewer in Visual Studio Pro will allow you define client reports with a variety of data sources. If you’re not familiar with creating client-side reports using the ReportViewer, take a look at these videos: How Do I: Create a report Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

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

DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
17 August 09 10:05 AM

This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007 In this article, I talk about how a lot of applications that need to take advantage of Microsoft Office can do so without going through COM. Many Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

Auto Access to non-Indexed Collections : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the VB Compiler
14 August 09 04:26 PM

I just finished a couple more How Do I videos on using EF with WPF using VS2008 SP1 (they’ll be published soon) and while I was translating my VB code to C# I stumbled upon an error in C# that does not happen in VB. This of course got me curious and so Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework

Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients
10 August 09 05:31 PM

I was cleaning up my desk today and in the piles of mail and gobs of paper I found the SDN Magazine “Women in Technology” issue 101 that featured an article I wrote that was released in print back in May. Well, I just noticed today that near the end of Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

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

MSDN Subscribers, Come and Get Windows 7 Today!
06 August 09 01:57 PM

Window 7 is available to MSDN subscribers today! My friend is so excited she pinged me in IM and told me she was refreshing her browser all morning on MSDN’s home page until the headline showed up. LOL! Everyone is so excited maybe that’s why Twitter Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Community, VS2010, Windows 7

N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework
05 August 09 03:20 PM

This month’s MSDN Magazine has a particularly good article in there by Danny Simmons , Development Manager on the Entity Framework team, on N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework   that I recommend reading through. He explains the design Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Data, N-tier, Entity Framework, VS2010

Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex Adds Live Samples in Visual Basic
03 August 09 02:27 PM

Today Justin updated the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex with samples in Silverlight 3 that you can run live directly on the site. Check out all the live tutorials: Part 1 – Controls Part 2 – Charting Part 3 – Theming Part 4 - Navigation Controls Part Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Silverlight, DevCenter