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WPF Forms over Data: 2 More Videos!
24 July 08 06:39 PM
I couldn't wait for the content pages to prop onto MSDN to tell you that I just uploaded two more WPF Forms over Data videos and code samples onto Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfdatavideos , videos 3 and 4. Video #3 shows how to create Read More...
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Channel9 Interview: Visual Basic Language Design Meeting
23 July 08 06:02 PM
I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite features, their thoughts on other languages, as well as what the Visual Basic language strategy really is. It was a fun and enlightening interview with a group Read More...
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Community Article: Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 1
17 July 08 02:16 PM
This week on the VB Dev Center we're featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de Beijer (VB MVP) on Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation . Maurice has a great wiki as well that you should check out if 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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Displaying Data Validation Messages in WPF
27 June 08 03:57 PM
As you can probably tell from my last couple posts I've been working with WPF in different data scenarios. Yesterday I was playing with data validation in WPF and .NET 3.5 which is pretty slick. In this article I'll walk through how to hook up validation 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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Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
13 June 08 12:50 PM
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows 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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I Survived TechEd
09 June 08 04:20 PM
I feel like I need a T-shirt that says "I survived TechEd". It was my first time at TechEd and no one can really prepare you for how much work and play takes place at a huge conference like that. I had a BLAST. Our VB6 to .NET migration talks went well Read More...
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Check it out - VB Social Bookmarks
30 May 08 04:06 PM
John mentioned that they just released a social bookmarking preview so that we can pop social feeds (feeds generated by content bookmarked by you) to enable all members of the community to publish useful resources directly to MSDN and TechNet. Check it Read More...
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DevTeach - Last Day
16 May 08 08:19 AM
Thursday: Okay I know it's Friday but I was the last session of the day yesterday and I didn't have time to post afterwards (I'll tell you why in a minute). My duet session with Rob Windsor was on VB6 to .NET Migration. We're going to take this one to Read More...
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I Made it to Toronto! Day 0 and 1 at DevTeach
13 May 08 09:32 AM
Monday: I wake up at 3:15am CA time and get to SFO to make a 6am flight to Toronto. (Note: Air Canada flights do NOT leave from the international terminal, they leave from domestic terminal 3, go figure.) But the flight was pretty nice, TVs on the back 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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Visual Basic "Learn" Section of MSDN - Give it a Spin
08 May 08 04:54 PM
The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and VS 2008 topics. If you look at the center of the page you'll see the list of topics and when you click one, you should now see some fresh stuff. Currently Read More...
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