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First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM

I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, Entity Framework

Attachment(s):SDCDay1.zip

Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
30 July 08 07:30 PM

About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released . The SDK provides strongly typed document part access to Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents. The SDK has been a CTP for a while, but last month version 1.0 was finally Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

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

Mail Merging with Word, LINQ and XML Literals in VB
06 December 07 05:50 PM

I've mentioned before that you can use XML literals in VB 9 to do text merging so I figured it should be pretty easy to do some mail merging in Word the same way. Word 2007 (and Excel, etc) now uses a standard XML format called Office Open XML to describe Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 17 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):WordMailMerge.zip

Quickly Import and Export Excel Data with LINQ to XML
30 October 07 08:00 PM

One really handy thing to do with relational data is to import and export it to Excel. This can be a total snap using LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 2008. For example, let's say I want to import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a local database file like Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 54 Comments    

Filed under: LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data

Attachment(s):ImportExportExcel.zip