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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps
24 March 09 09:01 AM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps . At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Community, Videos, Channel9, Data, VS2010

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

MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
01 October 08 06:49 PM

Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center . I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October issue of MSDN Magazine . I've been managing the content for the Basic Instincts column for a little over a year now where we rotate writers from the Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

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

Data Sources and Data Binding in WPF Talk in Redmond
24 September 08 09:35 AM

On Monday night I spoke at my first .NET users group here on the Microsoft Campus. It was the Visual Basic .NET Developers Association meeting that's here in Building 40/41 Steptoe room behind the cafeteria. It's held every last Monday of the month so Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, Community, DevCenter, Data

Attachment(s):DataBinding_WPF.zip

What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Client and Data Features
11 September 08 12:51 PM

Last night I spoke at East Bay.NET UG on some of the new features in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 focusing on client and data. I did a whirlwind tour of new SQL 2008 data types and Sync Services enhancements , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, VS2008, Community, SQL Server, ClickOnce, DevCenter, Office, Data, Entity Framework

Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
21 August 08 01:48 PM

Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on Line-of-Business (LOB) application scenarios. I showed how you can use the same data sources with Winforms and WPF, walking through binding scenarios with DataSets, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Speaking, LINQ, Community, Winforms, DevCenter, Data, N-tier

Attachment(s):DataBinding_BayNetUG.zip

Channel 9 Interview - LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer in VS 2008
27 August 07 04:03 PM

I just posted another great interview on Channel 9 with Young Joo talking about LINQ to SQL and the new O/R Designer in Visual Studio 2008. He demos a typical business client-server scenario and shows how LINQ to SQL classes make it much easier to work Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Channel9, Data

Visual Basic How-To Video Series is Online
04 May 07 11:48 AM

This how-to video series is dedicated to getting Visual Basic developers productive on areas of data-based Windows Application development. The series starts with the basics of database development with SQL-Server 2005 Express then walks through the details Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 15 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Community, SQL Server, Winforms, Videos, Data