Kathleen's Weblog : Video Presentations

Named and Optional Arguments in Office Development Using C#

kmcgrath — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:24:09 GMT

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 Programming (C#)

You can learn more in the overview of this feature, or follow along step-by-step.

--Kathleen

Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model

kmcgrath — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:09:00 GMT

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 controls to an entity data model.

See the Video: Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model

--Kathleen

Lambda Expressions in C++

kmcgrath — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:10:00 GMT

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 pointers and function objects.

See the Video: Lambda Expressions in C++

--Kathleen

Video: Active Patterns (F#)

kmcgrath — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:04:43 GMT

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.

See the Video: Active Patterns

--Kathleen

Video: Using Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

kmcgrath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:05:47 GMT

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 of the match expression to control branching based on patterns in data.

See the Video: Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

--Kathleen

I'm a VB! Are you?

kmcgrath — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:36:53 GMT

The Visual Basic team has posted a series of video interviews (as well as written interviews) with developers who use Visual Basic to build their applications. At this year's MVP summit, I followed Beth Massi, with my video camera in hand, as she interviewed several Visual Basic MVPs to learn about what types of applications they're building, what their favorite Visual Basic features are, and why they're a VB.

Are you a VB too? Submit your story.

--Kathleen

Video: What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

kmcgrath — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:42:13 GMT

The featured Visual Studio 2010 Help topic this week is What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor. In a video interview, Leith McCombs walks us through some of the new features in the editor.

See the Video: Visual Studio 2010 Editor

--Kathleen

Video: Implicit Line Continuation

kmcgrath — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:28:17 GMT

This week, I'm featuring implicit line continuation in the Help topic Statements in Visual Basic. This is the second part of the interview I did with Doug Rothaus. Implicit line continuation is a new (and frequently asked for) feature in Visual Basic 2010.

Check out the Video: implicit Line Continuation

--Kathleen

Video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

kmcgrath — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:27:06 GMT

This week, I’m featuring the topic: Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer. This topic describes how you can deploy multiple Office solutions in a single package to simplify the installation and update process. For example, you can now publish both an Excel workbook project and an Outlook add-in project at the same time. Programming Writer, Mary Lee, wrote about this in her blog post Deploying Multiple Office Solutions In a Single Installer and the post is complete with graphics to help you visualize the process.

I recently interviewed Mary to learn more about this topic, and to have her give a demonstration of some of the tasks described in the walkthrough.

See video: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer

-- Kathleen

Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010

kmcgrath — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:31:21 GMT

This week, I'm highlighting the Visual Studio help topic: Walkthrough: Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio. This topic gives a great introduction to some of the features and syntax of F#. I've also created a video that takes you through some of the basics. I show you how to declare simple variables, to write and test functions, to create tuples and lists.

See video: Creating Your First F# Program in Visual Studio 2010

-- Kathleen

Video How tos: Visual Basic Guided Tour

kmcgrath — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:24:35 GMT

We've published two Video How tos related to content in the Visual Basic Guided Tour.

Video How to: Creating Your First Visual Basic Program

This video shows you how to create your own Web browser application and navigate to your favorite Web site. The following tasks are included in the process:

How to create a project in Visual Basic.
How to create a user interface.
How to customize the looks and behavior of the application.
How to add Visual Basic code.
How to run and test your program.

Video How to: Creating a Drawing Application by Using WPF

This video shows you how to create your own Ink application, where you can write or draw pictures. The following tasks are included in the process:

How to create a WPF application.
How to switch between Code view and Design view.
How to use the XAML editor.
How to add WPF controls to the WPF application.
How to create event handlers for WPF controls.

Please be sure to give us feedback on these videos so we can continue to make improvements to our content!

--Kathleen

Video How to: Writing Queries in Visual Basic

kmcgrath — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:54:48 GMT

Visual Basic 2008 has added the ability to write database queries directly in native Visual Basic syntax. It's called LINQ (for language-integrated query), and you can get an introduction to how it works by watching this Video How to.

This video shows you the Visual Basic 2008 language features that enable you to write LINQ query expressions. The following tasks are included in the process:

How to create an in-memory data source.
How to create the query.
How to execute the query.
How to modify the query.

You can follow the steps and find the code used in this video in Walkthrough: Writing Queries in Visual Basic.

If you have suggestions for other Video How tos you'd like to see in our documentation, please let us know!

--Kathleen

New Video How Tos

kmcgrath — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:05:20 GMT

The Visual Studio Content team has created a new content type called Video How Tos. The Video How Tos enable you to watch videos that correspond to written how-to and walkthrough topics in the Visual Studio 2008 documentation. The documentation and Video How Tos are linked together so that you can easily go from the topic to the video and from the video to the steps and code.

The first set of videos is available now in the Video How Tos node of the MSDN Library. More videos will be added during the monthly documentation updates, so if you have requests for subject areas let us know.

Please give us your feedback when you watch a video so that we can continue to produce the type of videos you want to see. The videos are only available online, in the MSDN Library, but you can download them to your computer or portable media player if you want to watch them off-line. We’ll continue to add new videos, and I plan to feature individual Video How Tos on this blog.

--Kathleen

Video: LINQ Syntax in Visual Studio

kmcgrath — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:50:32 GMT

Join Beth Massi and Amanda Silver in this latest Visual Basic video. Amanda, who is a Lead Program manager on the Visual Basic team, demonstrate the LINQ syntax around Joins and Aggregates.

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-- Kathleen

Video: New IntelliSense features in Visual Basic 2008

kmcgrath — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:14:00 GMT

Lisa Feigenbaum shows Beth Massi new IntelliSense features in Visual Basic 2008. There are a lot of new features, including keyword IntelliSense, expression lists, and syntax tips that you will definitely want to learn about.

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-- Kathleen