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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:24 PM

Documentation Feedback at PDC

I’m at PDC in Los Angeles this week, collecting feedback about the Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation. Between handing out surveys, I’m interviewing customers about how they find the help they need. So far, just about everyone I’ve talked
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:42 AM

Lists in F#

In this video interview, Gordon Hogenson explains lists in F# and demos the functionality. You can also learn more in the topic Lists (F#) . See the video: Lists in F#   --Kathleen
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Friday, November 06, 2009 3:14 PM

New MSDN Library Views

I interviewed Mark D’Urso, a Senior Development Lead on the Library Experience team, about the new views available in the MSDN Library: Lightweight view ScriptFree view Classic view Watch the video: New MSDN Library Views --Kathleen
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:30 PM

Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010

I recently interviewed Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience team, about the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. He demonstrates the new browser-based Help viewer, and how you can update content locally. Watch the video:
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:09 PM

Discriminated Unions in F#

In this video interview, Gordon Hogenson explains discriminated unions in F# and demos the functionality. You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#) See the video: Discriminated Unions in F# --Kathleen
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:22 PM

Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer

In Part II of my interview with Norm Estabrook, he shows us how to create a Web Part using Visual Studio. This demo is based on his Help topic: Walkthrough: Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer . See the video: Creating a Web Part Using
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Friday, October 23, 2009 11:21 AM

Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies

Mick Alberts, a technical editor on the Visual Studio User Education team, created a video demo about embedding type information into an application that uses Automation objects from Microsoft Office. This video is based on a Visual Studio Help topic
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:21 AM

Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, I continue showing you new features by interviewing writers on User Education team.  Since I’m at the SharePoint conference, it seems fitting to start out with a SharePoint demo. In this video, Norm
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Monday, October 19, 2009 7:07 AM

Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey .  This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications you are developing as well as how you use Help and how we can
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Friday, August 21, 2009 5:24 PM

Named and Optional Arguments in Office Development Using C#

In this video demo, I show you how to add text to a document and then convert it to a table, without using all sixteen parameters that are possible with the ConvertToTable method.  See the Video: How to Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:09 PM

Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model

As a continuation of featuring data binding in WPF, this is part 2 of an interview with McLean Schofield, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team. In this interview, he demonstrates the steps in his Help topic on how to bind WPF
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Friday, July 24, 2009 1:10 PM

Lambda Expressions in C++

This week’s featured topic is Lambda Expressions in C++ . I interviewed Thomas Petchel, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, who describes the new Lambda Expressions in C++ and demonstrates how to use them instead of using function
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Friday, July 17, 2009 2:19 PM

Video: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation

This week, I’m featuring the topic Walkthrough: Copying a document to the end user computer after a ClickOnce Installation of an Office solution . As a continuation of an earlier interview, programming writer Mary Lee demonstrates how to deploy an Office
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:04 PM

Video: Active Patterns (F#)

As a continuation of featuring patterns in F#, this is part 2 of an interview with programming writer, Gordon Hogenson. In this interview he describes Active Patterns , which can be used to customize and extend F#’s pattern matching capabilities. 
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Monday, July 06, 2009 8:05 PM

Video: Using Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

This week, I’m featuring the topics: Patterns and Match Expressions .  I interviewed Gordon Hogenson, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, who walks us through some of standard patterns in F#, and he also explains the use
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