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Friday, October 24, 2008 2:42 PM

VB links on Entity Framework, Data Services and WPF

The following are all well worth a look: N-Tier Development with Data Services and Entity Framework (16mins) A PM on the team builds a simple ADO.NET Data Services application in VB. Dynamic Data Entry with XML Literals Dynamic creation of WPF maintenance
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:29 PM

My low tech polls: show of hands at the UK MSDN events

I have been asking a few “raise your hand” questions at the MSDN events we are currently delivering in various parts of the UK. I thought they would be worth sharing. What language do you code in? C# – around 60% VB – around 40% Good stuff! Something
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, October 06, 2008 7:28 PM

Another reason for using LINQ to Relational – avoiding SQL Injection attacks

There are lots of great reasons to use LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities – but I forgot this one. I just came across this nicely written article which explores this area in some detail and makes a good case for why LINQ can help. All in glorious Visual
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, September 29, 2008 3:35 PM

A very good showing of VB developers

As folks should know, as of July I stopped doing any demos in C# (pretty much) and switched to Visual Basic .NET – the simple reason being I know at every event we attend we have a large contingent of VB developers that we make sit through C# demo after
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:30 PM

Visual Basic vs C# LINQ syntax

LINQ has two syntaxes – Lamda syntax and Comprehension syntax. Each has their uses and you can happily mix them. Lamda syntax is stuff like: var longWords = words.Where( w => w.length > 10); Dim longWords = words.Where(Function(w) w.length >
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Monday, July 28, 2008 8:31 PM

200 LINQ Samples in Visual Basic

I recently discovered LINQPad . It is written by Joseph Albahari who wrote C# 3.0 in a NutShell and contains all the samples from his book. It is an amazing tool – and not an obvious tool to turn to if you are a Visual Basic developer. However – a certain
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Monday, July 28, 2008 12:21 PM

UK MSDN events now scheduled

Topics have been chosen, venues confirmed and details posted on our events site . We will be showing up at 6 cities through Sept and October with a lot of the content focused on Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Me – I will be delivering the “data bit”
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:19 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan is you
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