October 2009 - Posts

Happy Halloween 2009!!!
30 October 09 04:52 PM

“It’s the most, wonderful tiiiiime of the yyyyeaaaar”. Yes, I’ve been in love with Halloween ever since I was young. The neighborhood I grew up in L.A. was a great place to go trick-or-treating. Dead bodies in front yards, live action death scenes, and Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Personal

History of Visual Studio
28 October 09 01:07 PM

I just started catching up on a cool series on Channel 9: The Visual Studio Documentary The documentary kicks off by taking you back to the days of MS-DOS and Alan Cooper who originally sold Visual Basic to Bill Gates back in 1988. It has a lot of BASIC Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, VS2010

New Channel 9 Videos on Visual Studio 2010
27 October 09 11:29 AM

I’ve noticed that folks have been busy creating video content on the newly released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 while I’ve been gone!  (I’ve got a couple up my sleeve that I’ll post soon as well ;-)) For instance, Kathleen’s continuing her series of Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, VS2010, SharePoint, C#

XAML Power Toys Released for Visual Studio 2010
26 October 09 04:25 PM

I finally made my way back home from Europe and I’m still digging through all my email, newsletters, feeds, etc. But one of the items that grabbed my attention is this week Karl Shifflett released updated XAML Power Tools for Visual Studio 2008 as well Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, VS2010

SDC 2009 Recap & Surprise
20 October 09 06:39 AM

SDC09 has been a blast. I just finished my last session on Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and I think it went well. We created an OBA for good old Northwind Traders. I migrated the 2008 code which is here on code gallery Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Speaking, Community, DevCenter, VSTO, OBA

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Here!
19 October 09 09:58 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released! Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta Forums , report bugs on Connect , and watch videos about Visual Studio 2010 on Channel Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: DevCenter, VS2010

I Made it to Holland for SDC 2009!
18 October 09 09:31 AM

Yesterday I flew into Amsterdam and today I walked all over the city taking pictures for a mini-tourist day before the conference tomorrow. It’s a bit chilly (for me) but so far hardly any rain at all. It’s a little after 6pm in Holland as I write this Read More...

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Filed under: Speaking, Community

WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis
12 October 09 10:12 AM

If you’re up in Redmond, the . NET Developers Association has a very special guest for their meeting tonight. Billy Hollis will be speaking on WPF showing off a real business application he developed. Billy has a very “practical programmer” style that Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Community, DevCenter

Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
08 October 09 11:33 AM

I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic 2010. In this month’s MSDN Magazine, Spotty shows us how this new syntax in Visual Basic will make you more productive when writing code. Collection and Array Initializers Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, VS2010

A New Look is Coming to MSDN – See a Preview on the VB Dev Center
07 October 09 09:25 PM

Today MSDN released a preview of what’s to come later this month on the Visual Basic Developer Center . You should notice an URL at the top that directs you to check out the preview : Besides the cool colors you’ll see a better layout on the home page Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter

Great Article on Community
02 October 09 11:08 AM

I just read a great article on DevProConnections by Michael K. Campbell , The SQL Server Community: A Welcoming Place for Newbies It reminded me of when I started developing on the Microsoft platform back in the early 90s and how welcoming I found developers Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter

Congrats on your MVP Award!
01 October 09 06:12 PM

Today Robin (a.k.a Robindotnet) was awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award in Client App Dev for her ClickOnce Deployment expertise and for all the valuable resources and support she provides to the .NET developer community. Robin is a local Read More...

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Filed under: Community