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SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM
Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
15 August 08 12:18 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...
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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...
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TechEd Panel: VB XML Literals for C# Developers
03 July 08 10:00 AM
This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the SQL Data team. I thought it was a pretty funny panel description they came up with, ala Dr. Strangelove : VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I Read More...
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Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9
30 June 08 02:12 PM
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 . (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly Read More...
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Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ
24 June 08 03:29 PM
In my last post on this subject I explored creating WPF UI's dynamically using XML literals. The one part that bugged me a bit was that even though the UI was dynamic, we were using a fixed object model of our customer (using LINQ to SQL classes). I wanted Read More...
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Dynamic UI with WPF and LINQ
12 June 08 04:51 PM
Lately I've been getting my hands deep into WPF with my line-of-business (LOB)/data-based application mind set. I'm taking a different approach to the technology resisting the urge to put on my amateur-designer hat and instead purely focus on data, data-binding, Read More...
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Quickly Changing Values of XML Elements Using LINQ
09 May 08 06:33 PM
I've had many questions lately on how you can query for a specific node in an XML document (or fragment) and change it's value using LINQ. (This must mean that people are really starting to use this stuff so I'm pretty excited.) This is really easy to Read More...
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Video Presentation: Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9
30 April 08 05:44 PM
The session I did last November at QCon in San Fransisco is online so check it out . In this talk I introduced VB 9's LINQ to XML syntax and XML literals, axis properties, and embedded expressions. It's so weird watching myself but I think it was a pretty Read More...
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Querying HTML with LINQ to XML
25 April 08 04:00 PM
Often times we need to parse HTML for data. Sure in a perfect world everything would have a nice service or API wrapped around it but as we all know this is not always the case. Many times we're left with parsing files or "screen scraping" to get the Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow - Redux - LINQ to XML in Visual Basic
03 April 08 12:55 PM
If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live tomorrow at 9AM Pacific. These webcasts have been loads of fun for me. Although I prefer speaking in front of live people (I like to see your faces) I Read More...
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LINQ to XML Webcast Added to the VBeth Webcast Series
21 March 08 12:00 PM
That's right, I'm doing this one again on April 4th since I got such a great turnout! (Let's hope the recording works this time... grrrrrr) Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 4/4/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow! - Working with XML in Visual Basic
20 March 08 07:00 PM
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on LINQ to XML in VB. I'll show lots of cool demos I promice! Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 3/21/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes XML permeates Read More...
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