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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

Working with a Local Database File in Visual Studio
31 July 09 12:58 PM

In this post and video I’ve shown folks how to work with a local database file (.mdf, .mdb, .sdf) that resides directly inside your project in order to see updates made while debugging your application. If it looks like everything saves fine while debugging, Read More...

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Filed under: VS2005, VS2008, DevCenter, Data, VS2010

Visual Basic Power Packs also included with Visual Studio 2010
27 July 09 09:56 AM

If you’re like me and used to having line & shape controls , PrintForm and a handy DataRepeater as part of your toolbox then you’ll be excited to know that these controls are also going to be installed with Visual Studio 2010. On Friday, Yunfeng Dong Read More...

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

Visual Basic Start Page News Channel in Visual Studio
27 April 09 09:39 AM

I’ve had a couple questions lately on how to change the Visual Studio start page news feed so I thought I’d write a quick post on how to do it. When you open Visual Studio for the first time it will ask you what development environment setting it should Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, VS2008, DevCenter

MSDN geekSpeak: Generics in Visual Basic
14 October 07 08:00 AM

Listen to the always entertaining Jim Duffy , Visual Basic MVP, talk about generics and more in Visual Basic on MSDN's geekSpeak. In this segment, Jim answers common developer questions about not only use of generics, but also some language-specific features Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Community, DevCenter, Channel9

Using Data Across Multiple Windows Forms
01 October 07 11:11 AM

Recently I've had more than a few questions about how to handle working with data across multiple forms. If you've watched my Forms over Data video series you know how to create a database , connect to it , save your data properly , and work with data Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 31 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

Attachment(s):MultiFormSample.zip

Binding Multiple Combo Boxes to the Same Data Source
19 September 07 11:03 AM

Recently the VB Team received a customer bug submitted through Connect that had to do with binding multiple combo boxes to the same data source. The customer was reporting that once a selection was made in one combo, the other combos were also changing. Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 8 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Community, Winforms, DevCenter, Article

Converting VS 2005 Projects to VS 2008 - Enabling LINQ
21 August 07 02:36 PM

So you have an application you've written in Visual Studio 2005 and you want to dig in, convert this baby, and start using LINQ in Visual Studio 2008. In this post I'm going to outline what steps are involved to get LINQ working based on what providers Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2005, VS2008, DevCenter, Article

Line and Shape Controls For Visual Basic Just Released
13 August 07 04:52 PM

The VB Team just released an updated version of the Visual Basic Power Packs on the VB Developer Center that includes a new set of controls for Visual Studio 2005 that allow you to draw lines, rectangle and oval shapes on your Windows Forms. These controls Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Winforms, DevCenter

Forms Over Data Video Series - Two More Videos Released
01 August 07 04:34 PM

I just released two more videos ( #15 , #16 ) in the Forms Over Data video series . One is on understanding data binding and how it works from database all the way to the controls you see on forms. We talk about the relationship between the TableAdapter, Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Winforms, Videos, DevCenter, Data

Attachment(s):FormsOverDataCode15-16.zip

Object Binding Series - Just Added One More!
01 August 07 04:30 PM

I just added a new video ( #4 ) to the Object Binding Series on filtering your custom objects -- based on customer request -- so keep them coming! The code is also attached . Enjoy! Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, Winforms, Videos, DevCenter

Attachment(s):4FilteringAndObjectBinding_Code.zip