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WPF RSS Feed Aggregator on CodePlex
12 November 08 04:30 PM
Alessandro Del Sole , Visual Basic MVP, has been busy on CodePlex writing a neat WPF learning application that aggregates RSS feeds. In his words: It's developed in Visual Basic 2008 and uses LINQ-to-Xml and XML Literals to read feeds and persist XML Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    
SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM
Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    
First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM
I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...
MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
01 October 08 06:49 PM
Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center . I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October issue of MSDN Magazine . I've been managing the content for the Basic Instincts column for a little over a year now where we rotate writers from the Read More...
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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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Comparing Two Open XML Packages with Open XML Diff
31 July 08 04:18 PM
Yesterday I received an email from another employee here at Microsoft to check out this tool called Open XML Diff that he was working on. His name is Pranav Wagh and he just released another drop of the tool which you can read about oh his blog . You 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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Video Presentation: Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9
30 April 08 05:44 PM
The session I did last November at QCon in San Fransisco is online so check it out . In this talk I introduced VB 9's LINQ to XML syntax and XML literals, axis properties, and embedded expressions. It's so weird watching myself but I think it was a pretty Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow - Redux - LINQ to XML in Visual Basic
03 April 08 12:55 PM
If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live tomorrow at 9AM Pacific. These webcasts have been loads of fun for me. Although I prefer speaking in front of live people (I like to see your faces) I Read More...
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LINQ to XML Webcast Added to the VBeth Webcast Series
21 March 08 12:00 PM
That's right, I'm doing this one again on April 4th since I got such a great turnout! (Let's hope the recording works this time... grrrrrr) Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 4/4/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow! - Working with XML in Visual Basic
20 March 08 07:00 PM
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on LINQ to XML in VB. I'll show lots of cool demos I promice! Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Working with XML in Visual Basic 3/21/2008 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration:60 Minutes XML permeates Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    
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...
Using XML Literals in Code Generation
11 February 08 01:13 PM
A while back I showed a very simple way you could use XML Literals to generate code. In my previous life we used XSLT to do our code generation of different layers in our applications but as I worked with XML literals in Visual Basic 9, I came to realize Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense
18 January 08 09:00 AM
Yesterday I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard . He also shows the differences between Read More...
Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    
Last Day at DevTeach
30 November 07 09:50 AM
All good things come to an end. My last day at DevTeach I filled in for a speaker that got caught at the border at the last minute and presented a session focusing completely on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 9. I went through a lot of examples and got really Read More...
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