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Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
05 November 09 09:03 PM
Couple weeks ago when I was in Holland speaking at SDC an attendee asked me how he could call methods in an Office solution (VSTO) from VBA functions defined in a document and vice versa. I thought I’d follow up with a post on how to do this, but first Read More...
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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...
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New Channel 9 Videos on Visual Studio 2010
27 October 09 11:29 AM
I’ve noticed that folks have been busy creating video content on the newly released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 while I’ve been gone!  (I’ve got a couple up my sleeve that I’ll post soon as well ;-)) For instance, Kathleen’s continuing her series of Read More...
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WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis
12 October 09 10:12 AM
If you’re up in Redmond, the . NET Developers Association has a very special guest for their meeting tonight. Billy Hollis will be speaking on WPF showing off a real business application he developed. Billy has a very “practical programmer” style that Read More...
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Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
08 October 09 11:33 AM
I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic 2010. In this month’s MSDN Magazine, Spotty shows us how this new syntax in Visual Basic will make you more productive when writing code. Collection and Array Initializers Read More...
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A New Look is Coming to MSDN – See a Preview on the VB Dev Center
07 October 09 09:25 PM
Today MSDN released a preview of what’s to come later this month on the Visual Basic Developer Center . You should notice an URL at the top that directs you to check out the preview : Besides the cool colors you’ll see a better layout on the home page Read More...
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Mail Merging Into a Single Word Document Using XML Literals
23 September 09 04:18 PM
With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 we can work with a much simpler, standard, XML format called Open XML which opens the door for many types of applications that cannot work via COM. What if you needed to build a scalable web service that processes Read More...
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Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
15 September 09 07:11 PM
Yesterday John posted on the Visual Studio Data blog how to Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during an Insert Operation using SQL Server. In that post he shows how the DataSet designer sets up a batch Insert statement to retrieve identity keys Read More...
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What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?
14 September 09 05:47 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Paul Yuknewicz , Lead Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Paul discusses Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE support options as well as proven techniques, tools and best practices for interoperability and Read More...
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Rate and Ask Questions on How Do I Videos on the VB Dev Center
03 September 09 05:50 PM
“How Do I” Videos have been an incredibly popular free training for Visual Studio developers for a couple years now. Today MSDN launched a pilot on the Visual Basic Developer Center’s “How Do I” Videos that allows you to rate them and add comments. Sweet! Read More...
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New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
26 August 09 10:18 AM
Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF data-entry forms with Entity Framework: How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework? How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Read More...
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DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
17 August 09 10:05 AM
This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007 In this article, I talk about how a lot of applications that need to take advantage of Microsoft Office can do so without going through COM. Many Read More...
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Auto Access to non-Indexed Collections : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the VB Compiler
14 August 09 04:26 PM
I just finished a couple more How Do I videos on using EF with WPF using VS2008 SP1 (they’ll be published soon) and while I was translating my VB code to C# I stumbled upon an error in C# that does not happen in VB. This of course got me curious and so Read More...
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Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex Adds Live Samples in Visual Basic
03 August 09 02:27 PM
Today Justin updated the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex with samples in Silverlight 3 that you can run live directly on the site. Check out all the live tutorials: Part 1 – Controls Part 2 – Charting Part 3 – Theming Part 4 - Navigation Controls Part Read More...
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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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