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New Video Tutorials from the Community
18 March 08 04:15 PM

Bill Burrows, Visual Basic MVP has just released a new set of video tutorials on using Excel for business intelligence using the Excel 2007 Data Mining Add-in . Bill has done a lot of tutorials in the past. If you haven't seen them, I also recommend the Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office

Watch 48 New Visual Basic "How Do I" Videos!
18 March 08 09:02 AM

We added 48 How Do I videos ( Forms over data , Windows development , Office development and Security ) to the Visual Basic developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. This includes audio files, and additional videos files Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, 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 | 11 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 | 45 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):ImportExportExcel.zip