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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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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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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
16 April 08 12:03 PM
In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows client, a WCF hosted middle-tier and a data access layer that used LINQ to SQL: LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier LINQ Read More...
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
14 April 08 11:03 AM
In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application. In this post we'll walk through building a very simple Windows client form that works with our middle-tier. Adding the Service Reference Now that we have Read More...
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
12 April 08 09:01 AM
In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data binding in your Windows applications. If you missed them: Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL One-To-Many Read More...
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...
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Webcast Tomorrow! - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic
06 March 08 05:45 PM
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on an intro to LINQ in VB. If you're lost or just want to get started with it, join me and come see what it's all about. Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic 3/7/2008 9:00 AM Read More...
Simple Validation with LINQ to SQL Classes
25 February 08 05:04 PM
In the last few posts on LINQ to SQL I've showed how to set up an object model using the O/R designer and how to handle a couple data binding scenarios with Comboboxes here and here . Last post on this topic we implemented a one-to-many data entry form Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 34 Comments    
One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL
19 February 08 03:11 PM
In previous posts this month I showed how to use LINQ to SQL classes with a couple different Combobox data binding scenarios. (You can read those articles here and here .) Today I'm going to show you how to create a one-to-many data entry form (and we'll Read More...
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Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series)
12 February 08 10:38 AM
I'll be doing a series of webcasts next month that you should check out if you're trying to get started with the new features in Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. (BTW, if you haven't downloaded Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 Express what are Read More...
Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL
07 February 08 09:00 AM
In yesterday's post I showed you how to bind LINQ to SQL classes to a Combobox in order to filter records on a one-to-many form. Today I want to show you how how you can use a Combobox as a lookup list in order to edit values on a record. We'll be building Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 14 Comments    
Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL
06 February 08 02:07 PM
In a previous post I showed how to set up related data binding using ComboBoxes against DataSets and a loyal reader asked how this would be done using LINQ and Visual Studio 2008. I assume he meant LINQ to SQL in this case, because remember LINQ can be Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 24 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained
14 December 07 01:57 PM
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals. Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    
Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst
08 November 07 03:22 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst , a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He shows us how the new Option Infer works and how Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    
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...
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